A recent study found that wireless pacemakers could be an effective and safe short-term treatment for children with slow heartbeats, U.S. News & World Report reported April 11. The study, published in ...

The world’s tiniest pacemaker — smaller than a grain of rice — could help save babies born with heart defects, say scientists. The miniature device can be inserted with a syringe and dissolves after ...

Researchers at Northwestern University just found a way to make a temporary pacemaker that’s controlled by light—and it’s smaller than a grain of rice. A study on the new device, published last week ...

Northwestern researchers have developed the world’s smallest pacemaker, which with its dissolvable nature allows it to be inserted non-invasively into patients’ bodies. Fit into the tip of a syringe, ...

Dear Doctor K: I’m scheduled to have a pacemaker inserted in a couple of weeks. Can you tell me what will happen during the procedure? Dear Reader: A pacemaker is a little box that is placed beneath ...

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 ...

Alan Zhu, a cardiologist and electrophysiologist at Mercy Medical Center, holds a pacemaker and a quarter. Pacemakers, which are implanted into the chest, deliver electrical pulses to the heart to ...