Don't let your surgeon toss your old heart pacemaker out with the trash. Used pacemakers can be refurbished, researchers ...

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 ...

It's been more than a decade since a man walked into a Michigan hospital and made the unusual request to donate his late wife's pacemaker. She had the brand new device implanted just a few months ...

H eartbeats could one day help power something beyond hearts. A pacemaker is a device that helps regulate abnormal heart rates using electrical pulses. Leadless pacemakers, which are placed in the ...

Recycled pacemakers can function as well as new devices, according to a new study. These used and reconditioned devices have the potential to increase access to pacemaker therapy in low- and ...

"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 ...

A program to refurbish used pacemakers could expand access to the lifesaving devices. In a clinical trial of nearly 300 people, patients who received refurbished pacemakers fared just as well as ...

This surgery may be done if you have bradycardia (a slow heart rate). A pacemaker is a small, battery-powered device. It sends electrical signals to the heart. These signals work to keep the heartbeat ...

The worldwide use of both magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and pacing devices has vastly increased ... in patients with selected implantable pacemakers, MRI in pacemaker patients is still ...

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