ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Researchers are reporting encouraging results for a new generation of pacemakers — miniature, wireless ones that can be implanted through a leg vein without surgery. In a study of ...

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FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- As we age, the electrical pulses that keep our heart beating normally can start to slow down, causing our hearts rates to slow or even take long pauses in-between beats.

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It took Earl Bakken, the founder of Medtronic, about four weeks in 1957 to craft the first battery-powered pacemaker. Almost 60 years later, Medtronic is racing crosstown rival St. Jude Medical to ...

Researchers are reporting encouraging results for a new generation of pacemakers — miniature, wireless ones that can be implanted through a leg vein without surgery. In a study of 725 patients, one of ...

Now a mini stand-alone pacemaker can be inserted into the heart without surgery. The small cylinder runs on a battery and is inserted through an artery in the groin. A traditional pacemaker would take ...

URBANA — Offered the chance to become one of the first local patients to get a new miniature device implanted in his heart, retired coach Don Pittman told his doctor to go for it. At 91, Pittman ...

Ordinarily, a pacemaker is surgically implanted below the collarbone, where it sits in a sizable pocket under the skin. Electrical leads run from it to the heart, allowing it to monitor the rhythm of ...