Pacemaker

The Food and Drug Administration announced today that 465,000 pacemakers installed in the US have a security…

Thanks to Microsoft’s Build 2015 developers conference, the apps world is all shaken up. With news that Android and…

Pacemakers are—even at their tiniest—intrusive bits of metal wired into the heart. But now scientists have come up…

This amazing 3D piece of silicone dotted with electronics looks like something out of the future—because it is. In…

The little magnets sure make the iPad's Smart Covers useful—but they could switch off pacemakers, too, if a new…

One of the big downfalls of the pacemaker (apart from their newly discovered vulnerability to hacking) is that every…

Discover Magazine has an amazing story about how a woman needed to be carried upside down in order to stay alive. It…

Picture this: a mountain of a man — over seven feet tall, by the looks of it — stands in the ambulance bay entrance…

Wilson Greatbatch has died at the age of 92. He was a lifelong inventor. And like many inventors, his most notable…

Heart cells created by Stanford researchers could lead to a better pacemaker: The beat of the cells is paced by…

Wirelessly-connected medical implants are convenient, smart, and save a lot of lives. But the prospect of murdering…

Swiss scientists designed a small blood-powered turbine that would fit in arteries and power internal electronics…

Forget stomach stapling and lap band surgery. The next big thing in weight loss surgery may be the stomach pacemaker.

The Volkswagen Darth Vader commercial was one of the Super Bowl's best and a lot of it had to do with the adorable…

"Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits," Thomas Edison once said. But is hustling all it takes? Is…

Scientists have successfully controlled a living creature's heart with a laser beam, taking a first step towards…

Bionic people of the world rejoice, for your heart ticks and booms booms will be transmitted through the internet…

The Tonium Pacemaker, contrary to its name, will not maintain your heart's natural beat from the inside. It's a…

A group of researchers from the Medical Device Security Center (who would've thought we needed one of those?) have…

DJing on the bus, at work, in the supermarket and in line at the DMV may sound like a pipe dream, but this…