A pacemaker is a small device that can send electrical signals to your heart. Here's who needs a pacemaker and how it works.

Clinical pacemakers save lives. Implanted in patients’ hearts to keep them beating regularly, the devices are an important part of modern healthcare in the fight against potentially fatal arrhythmias.

Russells Hall Hospital in Dudley has achieved a ‘West Midlands first’ by successfully implanting a leadless pacemaker in a ...

Researchers at Rice University and the Texas Heart Institute have created the internal components for a battery-free pacemaker, designed to be inserted directly into the heart and free of wires. The ...

Scientists say they've taken a first step toward creating a pacemaker that runs on the heart's own energy rather than batteries. Pacemakers are electronic devices implanted to regulate your heartbeat ...

Pacemakers have a problem — and that’s not something you want to hear about a medical device which literally helps a person’s heart to continue to beat normally. The problem, simply, is that they rely ...

The newest, smallest pacemaker comes with no strings attached—literally. A research team at Rice University, the Texas Heart Institute and Baylor College of Medicine recently created a heartbeat ...