In 1956, while building an oscillator to record heart sounds, Wilson Greatbatch inadvertently installed a resistor with the wrong resistance. It began to pulse at a steady pace—a sound similar to that ...

When nature devised the delicate, low-voltage electrical system that keeps a human heart beating at about 70 times a minute, it did not anticipate interference from doctors’ diathermy machines, radio ...

The FDA unveiled a new draft guidance yesterday recommending that class III implantable pacemaker pulse generators be required to submit premarket approval applications or submit notice of completion ...

The patients who made the biggest news at last week’s meeting of the American Heart Association in Miami were those who can talk about their “tickers” without being cute. They are the growing number, ...