A pacemaker is a small device implanted under the skin that controls abnormal heart rhythms. It's commonly used in people with heart conditions where the heart beats too slowly or irregularly. In this ...

After a week of recruiting out in Las Vegas, Iowa State head coach Fred Hoiberg's batteries are running low. His pacemaker's batteries, that is. The 41-year-old underwent a scheduled procedure to ...

Iowa State coach Fred Hoiberg, who had career-ending, open-heart surgery in 2005, is in the Mayo Clinic for surgery to replace his pacemaker, he confirmed via text to ESPN.com. A month after finishing ...

Clinical pacemakers save lives. Implanted in patients’ hearts to keep them beating regularly, the devices are an important part of modern healthcare in the fight against potentially fatal arrhythmias.

Russells Hall Hospital in Dudley has achieved a ‘West Midlands first’ by successfully implanting a leadless pacemaker in a ...

North India’s 1st case successfully done in Eternal Hospital Heart valve replaced without surgery, leadless pacemaker implanted The difficulties were not less for the 87-year-old woman who was ...

Atrial fibrillation – a form of irregular heartbeat, or arrhythmia – leads to more than 454,000 hospitalizations and nearly 160,000 deaths in the United States each year. Globally, it is estimated ...

After Emily Coles suddenly collapsed at home, she had to put her life on hold while doctors investigated the cause. Emily now knows that her heart had stopped beating for ten seconds, but at the time ...