Materials supplier Syensqo announced today that its Eviva-branded polysulfone (PSU) has been selected by medical device OEM Biotronik for use in the header of its latest Amvia Sky pacemaker models.

Amin Karami at the University of Buffalo found a materials solution to overcome a design challenge related to energy harvesting from the heart. Chris Newmarker The dream of pacemakers that make their ...

In the normal heart, the lower chambers (ventricles) pump at the same time and in sync with the heart's upper chambers (atria). Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT), also called biventricular ...

Medical devicemaker Medtronic has sent out a letter warning doctors that it found a higher rate of failure in its Kappa and Sigma brand pacemakers than it had originally predicted. The company is ...

In the normal heart, the heart's lower chambers (ventricles) pump in sync with the heart's upper chambers (atria). When a person has heart failure, often the right and left ventricles do not pump ...

Heart doctors are cheering news that Fridley-based Medtronic is moving closer to marketing the first MRI-compatible pacemaker in the U.S. But they don’t yet predict a dramatic shift in business away ...

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 ...

Magnets and other components inside iPhone 12 devices could disable pacemakers or implanted cardiac defibrillators, tech giant Apple has warned, potentially putting millions of people at risk for ...

Diagnosing contact sensitivity to an ICD can be challenging because many patients are first suspected of having an infection, due to cutaneous involvement primarily at or near the site of implantation ...

The advantages of pacing the heart electrically were well known as far back as the early 1900s. Early pacemakers were large, bulky external devices that used vacuum tubes, relied on external ac power, ...