Hugging grandpa with an iPod in your breast pocket might not be such a good idea, a study suggests. IPods, portable music players developed by Apple Inc., caused pacemakers to malfunction when held ...

Background: To determine the sensitivity and specificity, rate of compliance, and predictors of failure of telephone transmission of pacemaker function in a pediatric population. Methods: A total of 2 ...

Recycled pacemakers can function as well as new devices, a University of Michigan-led study suggests. These used and reconditioned devices have the potential to increase access to pacemaker therapy in ...

DALLAS, Feb. 27, 2017 -- Electric and magnetic fields (EMF) generated from everyday household appliances, electrical tools and more, used in very close proximity to the body, can interfere with the ...

Understanding the fundamentals of these unique functions enables the cardiac device specialist to tailor the pacemaker to the patient. This article, the second in a two-part series, will focus on the ...

Scientists have developed the first functional pacemaker cells from human stem cells, paving the way for alternate, biological pacemaker therapy. Scientists from the McEwen Centre for Regenerative ...

In the normal heart, the heart's lower chambers (ventricles) pump in sync with the heart's upper chambers (atria). When a person has heart failure, often the right and left ventricles do not pump ...

This story is part of a series on the current progression in Regenerative Medicine. This piece discusses the regeneration of the cardiovascular system. In 1999, I defined regenerative medicine as the ...

The high negative predictive value obtained in our study and others [5] provides support for the continued usage of a telephone transmission system in that the vast majority of assessments of ...