BARCELONA (Reuters) - Swiss engineers, famous for making the world's finest watches, are turning their hands to cardiology with a prototype battery-less pacemaker based on a self-winding wristwatch.

Needing a permanent pacemaker after surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) was linked to mortality in Swedish registry data. Such risk was not apparent in the first few years: all-cause mortality ...

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ANN ARBOR -- A new power scheme for cardiac pacemakers turns to an unlikely source: vibrations from heartbeats themselves. Engineering researchers at the University of Michigan designed a device that ...

Roughly 3 million Americans are currently living with a pacemaker, and according to the American Heart Association (AHA), 600 ...

Approximately 200,000 people in the United States get pacemakers every year – but having a battery-operated machine control the heart is far from optimum, especially for children, because it requires ...