The tiny pacemaker is paired with a small, soft, flexible, wireless, wearable device that mounts onto a patient’s chest to control pacing.

The device is another option for patients who can’t wear a CPAP, or continuous positive airway pressure device.

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 ...

A Light-Controlled, Self-Powered Revolution Traditional temporary pacemakers involve a tangle of wires that exit the body through the chest, connecting to an external power source.

What Is a Pacemaker? It’s a small device placed under your skin in your upper chest. The pacemaker has a computer that senses when your heart beats at the wrong speed or out of rhythm.

Millions of people worldwide live with a pacemaker that regulates their heartbeat, but exactly what are these devices and how do they work? Pacemakers can save the lives of heart patients by ...

A dissolvable pacemaker that’s smaller than a grain of rice and powered by light could become an invaluable tool for saving the lives of newborn infants., The device can be implanted ...

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.

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 ...

Northwestern engineers unveiled what they say is the smallest pacemaker in the world in a study published in the journal Nature.

The Wanted's Max George, who announced that he had a pacemaker fitted last year, has shared an update with fans just months ...

Mikey Oliveri was born too small for any existing pacemaker options. Doctors turned to an innovative, adapted option.