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 ...

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 ...

Sometimes our bodies need a boost. Millions of Americans rely on pacemakers—small devices that regulate the electrical impulses of the heart in order to keep it beating smoothly. But to reduce ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Former Vice President ...

Smaller than a grain of rice, new pacemaker is particularly suited to the small, fragile hearts of newborn babies with congenital heart defects. Tiny pacemaker is paired with a small, soft, flexible ...

Millions of Americans spend weeks recovering from heart surgery and other operations to repair brain and bone injuries every year. As special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports from Chicago, ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Former Vice President Mike Pence received a heart pacemaker device during a routine surgery on Wednesday and is expected to fully recover, a spokesman said on Thursday. Pence, ...