Roughly 3 million Americans are currently living with a pacemaker, and according to the American Heart Association (AHA), 600,000 new pacemakers are implanted each year. Now, a breaking recall ...

The need for treatment with a pacemaker in newborns may also be associated with other rare types of congenital heart defects. "Newborns and small infants who need urgent pacemaker placement due to ...

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 ...

Mendoza said an “initial interrogation” of the pacemaker showed “that his last ... Officials also removed three types of medicine from the house: Diltiazem, typically used to treat high ...

Often, heart block is treated with a pacemaker, which regulates the heart's rhythm. Such devices are rare in children. Only about 1 in 20,000 babies are born with heart block, and of those ...

The minimum follow-up for vital status was 1 year. The relation of pacemaker type to patient and provider characteristics was determined using logistic regression analysis. The relation between ...

Boston Scientific has issued a recall of Accolade pacemaker devices, according to a safety communication from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The Accolade devices under recall include the ...