Implanted after the monarch, 87, contracted an infection, the device is intended to aid in transporting him back to Norway, his royal house said. By Isabella Kwai King Harald V of Norway received a ...

After years without a detailed medical report on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his office has now published a comprehensive document outlining the procedures he has undergone and recent tests.

The leadless dual-chamber pacemaker is a one-piece device inserted into the heart to prevent a slow heart rate. The new ...

The monarch’s anesthesiologist Bjørn Bendz said the pacemaker will make his journey back to Norway safer Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022.

Risk of cardiac implantable electronic device (CIED) infection and resulting mortality hinged on the timing and extent of infection, which may ultimately come down to the type of procedure that the ...

Complete healing from pacemaker surgery can take up to 6 weeks. However, people may need to restrict themselves from certain activities, such as heavy lifting, for longer. Factors such as age and ...

Doctors at Max Super Speciality Hospital successfully performed India's first dual-chamber leadless pacemaker implantation.

Abbott launches AVEIR DR, the world’s first dual chamber leadless pacemaker system in India, offering a major advance in ...

The tiny pacemaker sits next to a single grain of rice on a fingertip. The device is so small that it can be non-invasively injected into the body via a syringe. Northwestern University engineers have ...

Though a Northwestern-developed quarter-size dissolvable pacemaker worked well in pre-clinical animal studies, cardiac surgeons asked if it was possible to make the device smaller. To reduce the size ...