If you have a pacemaker, you can donate it to a dog after you die. The same claim was also spread on X (formerly Twitter) informing other users that "It even saves the dog's owner the cost of the ...

Nassau police and its Crime Stoppers department are looking for medical equipment, including pacemakers, taken from a car outside North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset. Sometime between 2:15 ...

Generally, pacemakers improve quality of life for individuals who have a condition causing bradycardia, or a slowed heart rate. However, because there is an electrical device implanted near your heart ...

A pacemaker is a small electronic device that helps keep the heart beating regularly. It can represent a life-changing treatment for heart conditions such as arrhythmias. It is generally not too ...

Defibrillators use electrical shocks to restore a normal heart rate, especially in cases of life threatening arrhythmias or sudden cardiac arrest, while pacemakers use low-energy electrical pulses to ...

You will get medicine before the procedure. This helps you relax and helps prevent pain. The doctor makes a cut in the skin just below your collarbone. The cut may be on either side of your chest. The ...

Clinicians have been able to remotely monitor pacemakers for years thanks to a combination of near-field and remote wireless technologies, but until now, patients haven’t been able to access the data ...

Researchers at Northwestern University just found a way to make a temporary pacemaker that’s controlled by light—and it’s smaller than a grain of rice. A study on the new device, published last week ...

A much-noted study last year raised more than a few eyebrows when it suggested that digital music players could set hearts aflutter -- by interfering with pacemakers. The study, published in the ...

On Jan. 2, 2021, researchers published a paper investigating the possibility that the iPhone 12's magnetic field could affect the function of a medical device known as an Implantable Cardioverter ...