For patients with heart failure, the pacemaker can be a lifesaving device. But for all of the benefits, the existing models also come with some concerning drawbacks. The tiny wires that provided ...

FOR THOSE whose hearts occasionally go off rhythm, pacemakers are, quite literally, life savers. By providing a small electrical jolt at the right moment, they can keep a heart working at the ...

Billed as the world’s smallest pacemaker, Medtronic’s new Micra TPS (Transcatheter Pacing System) is about the size of a large vitamin capsule. At about one-tenth the size of a regular pacemaker, ...

Boulder Community Health’s cardiology team recently became the first in Boulder County to implant patients with the world’s smallest pacemaker. The device, known as a Micra Transcatheter Pacing System ...

The future of health care coverage may be in limbo — but the future of medicine is not. Thanks to nanotechnology, everything is getting smaller — way smaller. The latest example in Palm Beach County: ...

Though a Northwestern-developed quarter-size dissolvable pacemaker worked well in pre-clinical animal studies, cardiac surgeons asked if it was possible to make the device smaller. To reduce the size ...

This summer, doctors at UnityPoint Health performed the QCA's first leadless pacemaker procedure. Now, Dr. Helbert Acosta ...

San Diego, CA (October 26, 2009) – A study of patients with implantable cardiac devices such as pacemakers, implantable defibrillators or left ventricular assist devices found that performing capsule ...