Preliminary findings from a randomized trial of 300 patients across seven countries shows that used pacemakers, when properly ...

"With reconditioned pacemakers, there is worry about whether the device will cause infection and whether it will function properly," Crawford said. "The 90-day endpoint of the My Heart Your Heart ...

Surgeons have been opening chests and implanting pacemakers for decades. The devices save millions of people by controlling their abnormal heartbeats. Now doctors are testing a new version of ...

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 ...

Relatively weak magnets in consumer products have always posed some risk, usually very low, to the function of pacemakers and implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs). However, stronger ...

Pacemakers do not keep patients alive if the ... will benefit from this technology and how to program the software to best ...

They found that the best of the three prototypes harvested approximately 10% of the energy necessary to pace the "next beat," based on average pacemaker output. "Our next step is to optimize ...

Refurbished heart pacemakers have the potential to help people overseas who can't afford one An international trial that compared refurbished devices to new ones showed encouraging results Such ...

CHICAGO, IL—Reconditioned pacemakers carry the same low infection rate as new devices out to 90 days, according to preliminary data from the international My Heart Your Heart trial. The findings ...

Pacemakers do not keep patients alive if the ... will benefit from this technology and how to program the software to best ...