By harnessing light, my colleagues and I designed a wireless, ultrathin pacemaker that operates like a solar panel. This design not only eliminates the need for batteries but also minimizes ...

Relatively weak magnets in consumer products have always posed some risk, usually very low, to the function of pacemakers and implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs). However, stronger ...

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 ...

Nevertheless, it is recommended that capsule endoscopy is not performed in patients with cardiac pacemakers or other electronic devices because of the possibility of electronic interference ...

Pacemakers send electrical pulses to regulate a person’s heart rate and, in 1957, these electrical innovations needed to be plugged into an electrical socket to function, making the devices and ...

Apple has listed products it says should be kept a "safe distance" away from medical devices like pacemakers and implanted defibrillators. The list includes iPhone 12 models, Apple Watch and ...