The FDA yesterday approved a pacemaker "outfitted with a tiny transmitter" that allows doctors to monitor a patient's heart from a different room -- the "first medical implant capable of such ...

WASHINGTON -- The government has approved a pacemaker outfitted with a tiny transmitter that can tell your doctor how your heart is doing -- the first medical implant capable of such real-time ...

Data presented during a Late Breaking Clinical Trial at Heart Rhythm 2014 is the industry’s largest study of remote management of pacemaker patients ST. PAUL, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- St. Jude Medical ...

Clinicians have been able to remotely monitor pacemakers for years thanks to a combination of near-field and remote wireless technologies, but until now, patients haven’t been able to access the data ...

Correction: The original version of this story misstated CardioMessenger's FDA status. It is 510(k) cleared. Lake Oswego, Oregon-based Biotronik USA, the United States arm of Berlin-based medical ...

DUBLIN – Medtronic plc today announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval and U.S. commercial availability of the MyCareLink Smart (TM) Monitor, the world's first app-based remote ...

Medical device maker St. Jude Medical on Monday began deploying software designed to protect its remote monitoring system for implantable pacemaker and defibrillator devices. The move came on the ...

The government has approved a pacemaker outfitted with a tiny transmitter that can tell your doctor how your heart is doing--the first medical implant capable of such real-time monitoring. The ...

Cardiac pacemakers are battery-dependent, where the pacing leads are prone to introduce valve damage and infection. In addition, complete pacemaker retrieval is necessary for battery replacement.

Background: To determine the sensitivity and specificity, rate of compliance, and predictors of failure of telephone transmission of pacemaker function in a pediatric population. Methods: A total of 2 ...

For people who are having irregular heartbeats, a pacemaker is usually the recommended device to solve this health problem. As its name suggests, it regulates the heartbeat's pace to maintain the ...

A team of engineers from Stanford say it is possible to create a tiny pacemaker without batteries. Discarding existing models for cardiac devices, the engineers have introduced a millimeter-sized, ...