Keeping pace with technology, NCH is launching a research institute to test and deliver the latest medical advances. One of which is a new, and small, heart pacemaker. For more than a half-century, ...

For decades, pacemakers have successfully treated abnormal heart rhythms in millions of Americans here and across the country, delivering electrical impulses that keep the heart beating. Implanting ...

When Medtronic’s pill-sized pacemaker, the Micra TPS, was shot out of the Earth’s atmosphere and into the harsh elements of space last month, neither the device’s creators nor Shelbi Klingsporn, the ...

While modern pacemakers have proven an invaluable and lifesaving medical tool, the way they regulate the pace of the heart differs from the varying beat of the organ in a healthy individual.

A new technology in the way pacemakers are used is being tested right here in Lake Charles. A Kinder man has become the first in the country to test this new technology, and for him, it's been a new ...

WASHINGTON — It has the makings of a science fiction movie: Zap someone's brain with mild jolts of electricity to try to stave off the creeping memory loss of Alzheimer's disease. And it's not easy.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has given Medtronic (NYSE:MDT) the go-ahead on a clinical trial to test its next generation of MRI pacemaker technology, the Minnesota company announced Monday.

Marc Dorenkamp, M.D.; Christoph Breitwieser, M.D.; Andreas J. Morguet, M.D.; Joachim Seegers, M.D.; Steffen Behrens, M.D.; Markus Zabel, M.D. TWA occurs frequently in ...