During an average lifetime, the heart beats more than 2 billion times. To you, it might just be a steady “lub-dub” that speeds up under pressure and slows as you drift to sleep. But behind that rhythm ...

A pacemaker is a small, battery-powered device that controls the heartbeat. Our heartbeats are controlled by a highly efficient, biological electrical system that ensures our heart steadily pumps ...

Doctors perform a number of different outpatient heart procedures, including angioplasty, stenting, pacemaker implantation, and others. If you have a heart condition, your doctor might recommend an ...

Children's National presents proof-of-concept design for miniature pacemakers at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2018 At 2:15 p.m. C.T. on Sunday, Nov. 11, Rohan Kumthekar, M.D., ...

Leadless pacemakers do not need wires or battery packs. Smaller than a AA battery, they are implanted in the top and bottom ...

CRT is a surgical procedure in which doctors implant a pacemaker in both the right and left sides of the heart to help your heart’s chambers beat together. The goal is to improve heart pumping ...

See that teeny tiny rectangle next to that pencil tip up there? That’s a pacemaker – the world’s smallest in fact, which has just been revealed in a new study. Cardiac pacemakers are up there with ...

DELRAY BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) — A South Florida hospital is among the first to perform a first-of-its-kind surgery transforming the future of pacemakers. Prior to the new pacemaker technology being ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - One of the first patients to receive some high-tech heart help is saying thank you to the team at St. Elizabeth Health after they helped give him back part of his life. One of the ...

Researchers creating a digital twin that for the first time replicates the heart's electrical conduction system, which ...

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 then dissolves ...