A team of doctors provide a costly wireless pacemaker to 13-year-old Chandni Gaud at no charge, preventing repeated ...

(Courtesy of Medtronic) At the time, pacemakers were “crude devices,” with wires coming out of the person’s body and “they were susceptible like anything that uses wall power,” said ...

The chair is named for Earl Bakken, who founded Medtronic in 1949, then worked with University surgeons to develop the first transistorized wearable pacemaker in 1957. Now retired and living in Hawaii ...

Medtronic’s Micra Transcatheter Pacing System (TPS), the world’s smallest ... Another key trend in the market is the rise in wireless pacemakers. St. Jude Medical launched the Entovis pacemaker in ...

lasted for three hours and took the life of a young patient who was on an AC-powered pacemaker, said Dr. Robert Kowal, vice president of Medtronic’s cardiac pacing therapies. The blackout was ...

One of the latest developments is the world’s first app-based remote monitoring system for pacemakers, called MyCareLink Smart™, introduced in January of this year in Canada by Medtronic. This new app ...