Atrioventricular interval modulation is being studied for patients with uncontrolled hypertension. Could the new technology ...

Just like a pacemaker, the device's stimulator wire can occasionally get dislodged, requiring a follow-up procedure to reposition it, or the device or its stimulator wire can get infected, ...

FDA Approves New Appetite Pacemaker Device Federal health officials approved a new obesity device Wednesday that controls appetite with electrical pulses. Jan. 14, 2015, 2:34 PM EST / Updated Jan ...

In the real world of failing hearts, artificial implants made of titanium and plastic offer little more than a nice fantasy of some distant bionic future. For people like Carl Levonius Jr., whose ...

A pacemaker-like device may help those who suffer from bowel incontinence, or loss of bowel control, researchers say. The first person in the United States to receive the device since its approval ...

New device could allow your heartbeat to power pacemaker. ScienceDaily . Retrieved March 31, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2012 / 11 / 121104210843.htm ...

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 ...

More than three million Americans suffering from epilepsy may be spared a lifetime of horrific seizures. The potential breakthrough: a simple pacemaker-like device inserted into the brain. The Neur… ...

An experimental pacemaker-like device that delivers jolts of electricity to the neck arteries reduced blood pressure in people for whom drugs did not work, although not as much as its developers ...

Although cardiac pacemakers have saved countless lives, they do have at least one shortcoming – like other electronic devices, their batteries wear out. When this happens, of course, surgery is ...

A new medical implant could help treat people with sleep apnea, a disorder that causes breathing to stop abnormally during sleep, researchers say.

A new medical implant could help treat people with sleep apnea, a disorder that causes breathing to stop abnormally during sleep, researchers say.