If your heart beats too slowly or gets out of rhythm, a pacemaker can send an electrical pulse to that muscle and get it back on track. To do that, pacemakers need generators with batteries, and ...

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 ...

Atrial fibrillation – a form of irregular heartbeat, or arrhythmia – leads to more than 454,000 hospitalizations and nearly 160,000 deaths in the United States each year. Globally, it is estimated ...

Millions of people have benefited from pacemakers since the first one was implanted in 1958, but the basics facets of the design have remained unchanged. These ...

Atrial fibrillation – a form of irregular heartbeat, or arrhythmia – leads to more than 454,000 hospitalizations and nearly 160,000 deaths in the United States each year. Globally, it is estimated ...

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 ...

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.

Abnormal heart rhythms can be controlled by placing a small device called pacemaker in the abdomen or heart. A wireless, battery-less pacemaker that could be implanted directly into the patient’s ...

An experimental, leadless pacemaker housing is able to partially recharge the device's battery by generating electrical energy from heartbeats. The device generated about 10% of the energy needed to ...

Scientists are working on a pacemaker of the future that is battery-free and could be powered by the heart itself. Typical pacemakers consist of a pulse generator, which has a battery and a tiny ...

The first six British patients have been implanted with a wireless pacemaker – smaller than an AAA battery – that is set to revolutionise the treatment of heart disease. Standard pacemakers, which ...

The Swiss are famous for making the best watches. Now two engineers from Switzerland have shown it’s possible to build a pacemaker that winds up like an automatic wristwatch and runs without a battery ...