Developed by engineers from Northwestern University, the pacemaker is the size of a grain of rice and could help save babies ...

Because the human heart requires only a small amount of electrical stimulation, researchers were able to shrink their ...

Northwestern University engineers have developed a pacemaker so tiny that it can fit inside the tip of a syringe—and be ...

See that teeny tiny rectangle next to that pencil tip up there? That’s a pacemaker – the world’s smallest in fact, which has ...

Background Cardiac surgery carries a heightened risk of bradyarrhythmias, but current permanent pacemaker (PPM) implantation ...

Northwestern University engineers have developed a pacemaker so tiny that it can fit inside the tip of a syringe — and be non ...

Background: Conduction disturbances requiring permanent pacemaker implantation after heart surgery occur in about 1.5% of patients. Early pacemaker implantation may reduce morbidity and ...

Northwestern engineers unveiled what they say is the smallest pacemaker in the world in a study published in the journal Nature.

The device is smaller than a grain of rice — and is suited particularly to help newborn babies with congenital heart defects.

Smaller than a grain of rice, this injectable device could allow for minimally invasive heart-surgery — plus, research ...

The device is smaller than a grain of rice and can be paired with a soft, wireless wearable designed to be attached to the patient’s chest.

You will get medicine before the procedure. This helps you relax and helps prevent pain. The doctor makes a cut in the skin just below your collarbone. The cut may be on either side of your chest. The ...