Your heart’s job is to keep your pulse steady to pump blood throughout your body. Sometimes your heart rate is slower when you’re relaxing, and sometimes it’s faster when you’re exercising or stressed ...

CHICAGO — One person’s used pacemaker is another person’s treasure. A program to refurbish used pacemakers could expand access to the lifesaving devices. In a clinical trial of nearly 300 people, ...

Pacemakers and defibrillators are devices that sit under the skin, in the chest area near a patient's heart. They help with controlling abnormal heart rhythms. A pacemaker can treat an abnormally slow ...

Q: My mom is 93, and her doctor says she needs a pacemaker to control a heart arrhythmia. How does a pacemaker work? Is the operation dangerous for someone her age?

Reconditioned pacemakers are as safe as new ones, and work just as well, preliminary results from the My Heart Your Heart trial show, which could help more people receive lifesaving devices. More than ...

In a breakthrough development, scientists from Northwestern University, have unveiled the world's smallest pacemaker, tinier than one could ever imagine- even smaller than the size of a rice grain.

ROCK ISLAND, Ill. (KWQC) -UnityPoint Health – Trinity Heart Center has reached a new milestone in cardiac care by performing the Quad Cities’ first leadless pacemaker procedure, offering patients a ...

LONDON (AP) - Patrick Hetzner tried diets and exercise, just about everything short of stomach stapling to lose weight. Nothing worked. Five months ago he tried something new: a stomach pacemaker that ...

More than 20 years ago, Terri Mattula's dog Gator passed out while her husband was walking him. They took Gator to the vet and learned he had a third-degree heart block and needed a pacemaker. However ...

Tom Derrington, 65, was increasingly having trouble walking up the four flights of stairs on the CapMetro construction site where he works. He was out of breath. His feet were so swollen they hurt on ...