Jeff Henry and his family of seven were shocked in July 2024 when doctors discovered his heart was operating at just 12% ...

Tennessee is gearing up for an execution that experts say would likely mark the first time a man has been put to death with a working defibrillator in his chest ...

Black was executed after a back-and-forth in court over whether officials would need to turn off his implantable cardioverter-defibrillator, or ICD. Black, 69, was in a wheelchair, suffering from ...

AdventHealth Lake Wales is the first in Polk County to offer the implant surgery that addresses the chronic debilitating disease. According to the device manufacturer, Enterra acts as a pacemaker for ...

The increased competition from pacemaker manufacturers and the extended longevity of the new generation of leadless pacemakers are likely to reduce the implant cost and net yearly cost of leadless ...

Steyers, C.M., Khera, R. and Bhave, P. (2015) Pacemaker Dependency after Cardiac Surgery A Systematic Review of Current Evidence. PLOS ONE, 10, e0140340.

A pacemaker that’s smaller than a grain of rice and can be injected into the heart through the skin, without the need for surgery, has been invented by scientists.