Your heart’s job is to keep your pulse steady to pump blood throughout your body. Sometimes your heart rate is slower when you’re relaxing, and sometimes it’s faster when you’re exercising or stressed ...

There are unique technical issues that must be considered with the implantation of devices in small patients and those with CHD. Although most centers report low complication rates of complications in ...

Cleveland Clinic doctors were the first in the world to successfully implant leadless pacemaker defibrillator systems in two patients as part of a global clinical trial sponsored by Boston Scientific, ...

The heart devices do not track location, nor do they transmit across large distances. Like an estimated three million Americans, Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of the NBC News anchor Savannah ...

Dr. Brian Olshansky answers the question: 'Can A Pacemaker Be Monitored Online?' — -- Question: I have heard that my doctors/nurses can follow what my pacemaker is doing through the Internet. Is ...

Mercy Fort Smith physicians implanted a newly approved defibrillator with few long-term complications.

Data presented during a Late Breaking Clinical Trial at Heart Rhythm 2014 is the industry’s largest study of remote management of pacemaker patients ST. PAUL, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- St. Jude Medical ...

Bradley Ferguson has had the Extravascular Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (EV-ICD) fitted. It monitors a patient's ...

Some portable tech devices equipped with powerful magnets can interfere with your heart implant's ability to regulate dangerous irregular heart rhythms, a new study reports. Swiss researchers found ...

Less than a month after Charles “Chick” Woodfall, 78, got his defibrillator implanted in 2000, he and his wife, Nancy, 72, traveled in their nearly 27-foot motor home from the Palo Alto area to Morro ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Electrocardiograms, or ECGs, record the electrical activity of your heart. Randy Faris/The Image Bank via Getty Images Your ...

The Cleveland Clinic announced their team successfully implanted the world's first leadless pacemaker defibrillator system in two patients. Pacemakers provide electrical stimulation to regulate a ...