As 67-year-old Pamela Ham lay in a University Medical Center hospital bed last Monday morning, she was thankful she’s a baby boomer. Advances in medical care gave her a chance to beat back heart ...
NORTH HAVEN >> It’s only about an inch long, with four tiny prongs and no wires to thread through the chest. The pacemaker that Joe McAndrew had inserted directly into his heart is the latest ...
Northwestern University engineers have developed a pacemaker so tiny that it can fit inside the tip of a syringe—and be noninvasively injected into the body. Although it can work with hearts of all ...
SPRINGFIELD – Midway into a career, Dr. Sudhir Reddy noted, physicians often find themselves perfecting skills as opposed to using them in new ways. Earlier this month, the 42-year-old Reddy got to ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you have a heart rhythm disorder, you may have considered getting a pacemaker -- but you're wary of having a small electronic ...
A D.C. hospital is among a handful around the nation involved in clinical trials on a next generation of pacemaker used to control heart rhythm. “The leadless pacemaker technology is a very ...
An Ohio State graduate and Wexner Medical Center patient is the first Alzheimer’s patient in the U.S. with a brain pacemaker. Doctors are researching whether a brain pacemaker will be able to slow ...
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. A study on the new device, published last week ...
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