When was the last time you saw a Hudson Pacemaker? How about one with a beefed-up small-block V8 powerplant under the hood?

Now doctors are testing a new version of these lifegivers. The novel design that’s being tested is 90% smaller than other pacemakers, comes all in one piece -- and doesn’t require surgery.

The doctor makes a cut in the skin just below your collarbone. The cut may be on either side of your chest. The doctor will put the pacemaker leads through the cut. The leads go into a large blood ...

By Deane Morrison U of M News Wire October 1957 is remembered as the start of the Space Age, but that month also witnessed the birth of a new era in medicine. As the Soviet satellite Sputnik ...

The Identity pacemaker models 5370 and 5376 feature AF management, a suite of therapeutic and diagnostic capabilities designed to manage pacemaker patients suffering from AF. This tool kit includes: ...

Relatively weak magnets in consumer products have always posed some risk, usually very low, to the function of pacemakers and implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs). However, stronger ...

The Accent MRI pacemaker, with the Tendril MRI lead, is an MRI conditional system, offering safe performance of a full-body MRI scan on the patient using a 1.5 T (Tesla) field-strength MRI scanner.

The cardiac pacemaker market has witnessed significant growth over recent years, driven by the increasing prevalence of heart diseases, advancements in pacemaker technology, and growing awareness ...

New features, especially with regard to lead design and geometry ... simple programming with clear steps to provide predictable pacemaker performance during the scan, should it be required ...

The pacemaker weighs 2.4 gm and has a 17-year battery longevity for extended reliability. According to release, the non-magnetic design ensures compatibility with airport scanners, MRIs ...