Roughly one percent of infants are born with heart defects every year. The majority of these cases only require a temporary implant for about seven days to allow time for the heart to naturally ...

Back in November, we wrote about a tiny pacemaker made by Silicon Valley startup Nanostim. Whereas traditional pacemakers require chest surgery and a pocket to implant the device in—the Nanostim ...

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.

The future of health care coverage may be in limbo — but the future of medicine is not. Thanks to nanotechnology, everything is getting smaller — way smaller. The latest example in Palm Beach County: ...

A research team from Northwestern University in the United States has reported that they have developed a tiny pacemaker that is just 1 mm thick and small enough to fit inside the tip of a syringe, ...

Cardiologists on the medical staff at Baylor Jack and Jane Hamilton Heart and Vascular Hospital (BHVH) today implanted an investigational cardiac pacemaker the size of a multivitamin. The first ...

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Scientists have unveiled the smallest pacemaker ever, the size of a grain of rice, which provides a temporary solution for heartbeats. This wireless, dissolvable device represents a major advancement ...