Medtronic has received CE Mark for its next-generation Micra AV2 and Micra VR2 leadless pacemakers. These devices, claimed to be the world's smallest pacemakers, are designed to offer longer ...

Heavenleigh desperately needed a fix for her heart, and a family who needed her just as much as she needed them.

As pacemaker technology becomes more complex ... Another aspect of concern is that the first generations of Medtronic MRI-compatible PPMs (EnRhythm Sure scan) and the Biotronik Pro MRI Evia ...

Roughly the size of a small paperback book, the external pacemaker was also Medtronic’s first product. Bakken and Medtronic co-founder Palmer J. Hermundslie secured a licensing agreement with ...

Christensen, Clayton M. "We've Got Rhythm! Medtronic Corp.'s Cardiac Pacemaker Business (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 698-056, March 1998.

Medtronic (NYSE:MDT) this week shared new clinical data supporting its Evolut Pro/Pro+ transcatheter aortic valve replacement ...

Two device manufacturers (Medtronic, St Jude Medical) developed special pacemaker systems to avoid thermical injuries due to induced electrical potentials under MRI. Their underlying active ...

Seventy-five years ago, Medtronic, the world’s largest medical device company, was born. It was created in a garage in ...

The chair is named for Earl Bakken, who founded Medtronic in 1949, then worked with University surgeons to develop the first transistorized wearable pacemaker in 1957. Now retired and living in Hawaii ...

"With the help of a device company [Medtronic], we were working on a new pacemaker planned for another patient, that didn't ...

New pacing systems have recently been specifically designed by the major companies for safe use in the MRI environment (EnRhythm, Advisa, and Revo MRI SureScan pacemakers and CapSureFix MRI leads ...