AtaCor Medical, Inc., a privately-held medical device company focused on transforming cardiac rhythm management, announced ...

The Atala lead set for use in the collaboration with Abbott. [Image courtesy of AtaCor Medical] AtaCor Medical announced today that it enrolled the first patient in its ALARION-EV extravascular ...

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While modern pacemakers have become impressively compact and reliable, they still depend on finite batteries that eventually wear out. For many patients, that window of battery life is between five to ...

Medtronic got an FDA approval for its OmniaSecure defibrillation lead, opening up its use in the heart’s left bundle branch, while Biotronik touted the commercial rollout of its Solia CSP S lead.

Boston Scientific announced multiple recalls but has said its battery issues were limited. One internal test in 2025 found batteries with an “extremely high failure rate.” Credit...Illustration by Mel ...

An expert tells PEOPLE why pacemakers have Bluetooth technology, and how it can help locate Savannah Guthrie’s missing mother Nathan Congleton/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty The Bluetooth ...

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Data from Nancy Guthrie's pacemaker has helped shed light on the events leading up to her kidnapping, but there are significant limits in how much data the devices can collect. Most importantly for ...

If you have hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), and especially if you have obstructive HCM that reduces blood flow out of your heart, you and your doctor may discuss ways to lower your risk of sudden ...

Nancy Guthrie’s 2 a.m. pacemaker spike on the day she vanished could mean that the elderly woman was involved in a heart rate-surging struggle with her possible captors, a lead cardiologist speculated ...

The heart devices do not track location, nor do they transmit across large distances. By Gina Kolata Like an estimated three million Americans, Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of the NBC News ...