The device also dissolves once it is no longer needed, making invasive removal a thing of the past.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A medical device the size of a pill is now saving lives in West Michigan. Retired dentist Herb Carpenter is Spectrum Health’s first patient to receive Medtronic’s newly ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Medtronic announced it received FDA approval for two of its next-generation miniaturized, leadless pacemakers ...

(HealthDay News) — The world’s smallest pacemaker is safe and effective in patients with symptomatic bradycardia, according to the first human clinical trial of the device. The findings were presented ...

Just a few weeks after Abbott presented the successful results of a trial of its Aveir DR dual-chamber leadless pacemaker system—data that it said had been promptly submitted for regulatory review—the ...

When Abbott reeled in FDA approval for its first leadless pacemaker last spring, it was playing catch-up with Medtronic, whose Micra implant became the first such device greenlighted by the regulator ...

A team at Northwestern University (NU) has developed a pacemaker small enough to fit inside the tip of a syringe and be non-invasively injected into the body. Although it can work with hearts of all ...

A panel of doctors convened by the Food and Drug Administration on Thursday recommended extensive monitoring of a new class of tiny pacemakers following a frank assessment of the unknown risks and ...