Reconditioned pacemakers are as safe as new ones, and work just as well, preliminary results from the My Heart Your Heart trial show, which could help more people receive lifesaving devices. More than ...
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Heartbeat-powered pacemaker could eliminate the need for battery replacements
A heartbeat-powered pacemaker from UW–Madison harvests cardiac motion to charge an experimental leadless implant.
CHICAGO — One person’s used pacemaker is another person’s treasure. A program to refurbish used pacemakers could expand access to the lifesaving devices. In a clinical trial of nearly 300 people, ...
As the number of complex heart operations has increased over the years, so have cases of postoperative heart block, a form of arrhythmia that often requires a pacemaker and more surgery. Heart block ...
Madison researchers have developed an implantable, battery-free pacemaker that's charged by a patient's heartbeat. The device ...
A triboelectric nanogenerator harvests energy from each heartbeat to power a battery-free pacemaker, pointing toward implants ...
Guidant, a subsidiary of Natick, Mass.-based Boston Scientific, has agreed to pay $9.25 million to settle False Claims Act charges over the company’s alleged cost inflation for pacemakers and ...
Scientists at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have developed an experimental pacemaker that can collect energy from the beating heart instead of depending on a conventional battery. If the ...
CHICAGO, IL—Reconditioned pacemakers carry the same low infection rate as new devices out to 90 days, according to preliminary data from the international My Heart Your Heart trial. The findings ...
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