News | Pacemakers | February 20, 2019
Medtronic is recalling its dual chamber implantable pulse generators (IPGs) due to the possibility of a software error...

Model of the human heart with microprocessor located in the pericardial sac and attached to the left ventricle. Graphic courtesy of Business Wire.
News | Pacemakers | June 29, 2018
Investigators at Children's Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) and the University of Southern California (USC) have...
News | Pacemakers | May 24, 2018
Syncope with bifascicular block may be caused by intermittent complete heart block, but competing diagnoses may coexist...
News | Pacemakers | May 24, 2018
New clinical study results demonstrate that an investigational algorithm, utilizing the accelerometer signal in the...

The Boston Scientific Essentio MRI-safe pacemaker. It is common for pacemaker patients to need magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), which has not previously been possible because the magnetic fields could damage older devices. All pacemaker vendors now have FDA-cleared MRI compatible pacemakers.
Feature | Pacemakers | February 13, 2018 | Dave Fornell
There have been several advancements in pacemaker technologies over the past few years.

Mexican government reports conclude more than half of the population does not have access to social security or private insurance that covers a pacemaker implant, and 44 percent live in poverty. Recycling donated, explanted pacemakers offers a new option for these patients.
News | Pacemakers | November 10, 2017
Mexican doctors have safely reused donated pacemakers after sterilization, shows a study presented at the 30th Mexican...
News | Pacemakers | June 20, 2017
Pacemakers and other cardiac devices can help solve forensic cases, according to a study presented at the European...
Videos | Pacemakers | May 23, 2017
Vivek Reddy, M.D., director of cardiac arrhythmia services and professor of medicine, cardiology, Mount Sinai Hospita
Feature | Pacemakers | May 16, 2017
May 16, 2017 - The preliminary results for the Medtronic Micra Transcatheter Pacing System (TPS) Post-Approval Regist
Videos | Pacemakers | May 16, 2017
This video, provided by Medtronic, demonstrates the implantation of Micra transcatheter pacing system (TPS).