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 ...

NORTH PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Pacemakers and defibrillators have saved an untold number of Americans with heart problems. Still, some who could benefit from them are reluctant to get them. In this week ...

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 ...

Magnets and other components inside iPhone 12 devices could disable pacemakers or implanted cardiac defibrillators, tech giant Apple has warned, potentially putting millions of people at risk for ...

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 ...

It was curiosity that led Dr. Joshua Greenberg, a heart rhythm fellow at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, to suggest testing his iPhone 12 Pro to see whether the strong magnets inside might affect an ...

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact [email protected]. A leadless pacing-defibrillator system was safe and met ...

WASHINGTON — Malfunctions in implanted heart defibrillators were on the rise even before this summer’s massive recall by Guidant, government and Harvard University scientists reported yesterday. About ...

EnRhythm(TM) pacemaker and EnTrust(TM) defibrillators now available in Europe Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE:MDT) today announced the European introductions of the Medtronic EnRhythm(TM) pacemaker ...

Medtronic has issued a warning about rapid unexpected battery depletion that may happen in seven kinds of implantable defibrillators, affecting nearly 340,000 implanted devices worldwide. The Food and ...

Researchers report favorable safety and efficacy for a combination device after implantation and at 6 months follow-up among ...