The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is recalling nearly 500,000 pacemakers — the device that controls one’s heartbeat — citing concerns that they are vulnerable to hacking. The FDA issued the ...

Imagine millions of aging babyboomers, stuffed with all kinds of implanted medical devices that communicate over wireless networks. Life is good or at least not as bad as it could be. Imagine a coven ...

A team of researchers has shown that increasingly common wireless medical devices like pacemakers are vulnerable to hacking. They showed they could hijack the device and make it do things it's not ...

(WASHINGTON) — Millions of Americans use medical devices such as pacemakers for regulating the heart’s contractions. But a new cyber threat could have potentially deadly outcomes, and now the Food and ...

Researchers at Northwestern University just found a way to make a temporary pacemaker that’s controlled by light—and it’s smaller than a grain of rice. A study on the new device, published last week ...