If your heart beats too slowly or gets out of rhythm, a pacemaker can send an electrical pulse to that muscle and get it back on track. To do that, pacemakers need generators with batteries, and ...

A new, tiny pacemaker — smaller than a grain of rice — developed at Northwestern University near Chicago could play a sizeable role in the future of medicine, according to the engineers who developed ...

— -- Former Los Angeles Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda is "doing well" after undergoing surgery Thursday to have his pacemaker replaced, the team announced Friday on Twitter. The team said last ...

Researchers at Northwestern University just found a way to make a temporary pacemaker that’s controlled by light—and it’s smaller than a grain of rice. A study on the new device, published last week ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Prototype piezoelectric pacemakers successfully turned heartbeat energy into battery power. The device was able ...

The world’s tiniest pacemaker — smaller than a grain of rice — could help save babies born with heart defects, say scientists. The miniature device can be inserted with a syringe and dissolves after ...

Northwestern University engineers have developed a pacemaker so tiny that it can fit inside the tip of a syringe—and be noninvasively injected into the body. Although it can work with hearts of all ...

Complete healing from pacemaker surgery can take up to 6 weeks. However, people may need to restrict themselves from certain activities, such as heavy lifting, for longer. Factors such as age and ...

When Sarah and Michael Oliveri went to their 20-week ultrasound for their third pregnancy, they thought to knew what to expect. Their previous visit had been stressful — doctors had detected an ...

Millions of people worldwide live with a pacemaker that regulates their heartbeat, but exactly what are these devices and how ...

The tiny pacemaker sits next to a single grain of rice on a fingertip. The device is so small that it can be non-invasively injected into the body via a syringe. Northwestern University engineers have ...

CHICAGO — A new, tiny pacemaker — smaller than a grain of rice — developed at Northwestern University could play a sizable role in the future of medicine, according to the engineers who developed it.