A new painless treatment could replace pacemakers in patients at risk of arrhythmia, administering light beams instead of electric pulses. Lab tests have shown that administering gentle beams of light ...

Pengju Li consults to the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering. He receives funding from the University of Chicago. By harnessing light, my colleagues and I designed a wireless, ultrathin ...

Editor's Note: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration classified Guidant's action as a class 1 recall on July 22, 2005. July 19, 2005 — Guidant Corp. has warned healthcare professionals and consumers ...

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 ...

Researchers have examined long-term outcomes in patients who received pacemaker implantations after transcatheter aortic valve replacement through their groin. The result showed no significant ...

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 ...