A new, tiny pacemaker — smaller than a grain of rice — developed at Northwestern University could play a sizable role in the ...

Temporary pacemaker can be injected, fits any size patient, including babies, and eliminates need to remove it.

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

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

After heart surgery, they often need pacing for just a few days. “Those seven days are absolutely critical,” explained one of the lead researchers. “Now, we can place this tiny pacemaker on ...

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

Although it can work with hearts of all sizes, the pacemaker is particularly well-suited to the tiny, fragile hearts of ...

the Easter holidays may have determined the choice to use this window for the surgery. After all, the implantation of a pacemaker usually occurs under local anesthesia, with discharge sometimes ...

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

That's actually how Neil Armstrong died. He had a temporary pacemaker after bypass surgery. When the wires were removed, he experienced internal bleeding." The thin, flexible, lightweight device ...

A tiny device can be inserted using a syringe and then safely dissolves once it is no longer needed. Engineers at ...