BEIJING, Jan. 26 (Xinhua) -- A Chinese research team has successfully developed a miniature self-powered cardiac pacemaker, paving a new way for the advancement of implantable electronic devices.

PeriCor, a company co-founded by mechanical engineering PhD student Justin Opfermann, has been awarded a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research grant from the National Institutes of Health.

DELRAY BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) — A South Florida hospital is among the first to perform a first-of-its-kind surgery transforming the future of pacemakers. Prior to the new pacemaker technology being ...

The wire-free pacemaker could benefit patients recovering from cardiac surgery, without the need for added operations to remove it. Reading time 2 minutes A team of scientists created a novel type of ...

The Chief Physician to Governor Udom Emmanuel on Medicals, Dr. Akpabio Ignatius has said that Akwa Ibom state has performed eight successful cardiac pacemaker implantations at various General ...

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Ten years ago, astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, died not long after undergoing a routine heart surgery to remove a temporary pacemaker. Heavy bleeding occurred when the ...

Cardiac pacing devices have been widely prescribed to diagnose bradycardia (slow or missing stimulation of the complete ventricle) and Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy since the invention of ...