Betty Bennett is not a homebody. The Homer resident says she enjoys the outdoors and visiting a senior center to do activities and go on daytrips. An avid gardener, Bennett also likes to plant flowers ...

Technology is always evolving, and so are the pacemakers available to patients at McLaren Greater Lansing. Some patients with slow heart rates can now opt for a state-of-the-art wireless pill-size ...

Not every heart patient needs a pacemaker. Expert explains warning signs, common myths, eligibility, and when a slow ...

Jerry Karzen has had many successes as both a tennis player and a coach. Now he is getting the chance to extend those accomplishments with the assistance of a new generation of pacemaker. In January, ...

The world’s tiniest pacemaker — smaller than a grain of rice — could help save babies born with heart defects, say scientists. The miniature device can be inserted with a syringe and dissolves after ...

Researchers at Northwestern University just found a way to make a temporary pacemaker that’s controlled by light—and it’s smaller than a grain of rice. A study on the new device, published last week ...

While modern pacemakers have become impressively compact and reliable, they still depend on finite batteries that eventually wear out. For many patients, that window of battery life is between five to ...