Surgeons have been opening chests and implanting pacemakers for decades. The devices save millions of people by controlling their abnormal heartbeats. Now doctors are testing a new version of ...

Wireless models of St Jude-branded pacemakers can now receive a firmware update A total of 745,000 pacemakers have been confirmed as having cyber-security issues that could let them be hacked.

A number of other manufacturers, for example Samsung and ... a magnet can change a pacemaker's timing or deactivate a defibrillator's life-saving functions, and this research indicates the urgency ...