Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Roughly one percent of infants are born with heart defects every year. The majority of these cases only require a temporary ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A medical device the size of a pill is now saving lives in West Michigan. Retired dentist Herb Carpenter is Spectrum Health’s first patient to receive Medtronic’s newly ...

An international team of researchers has revealed a game-changing, self-sustaining, and biodegradable pacemaker, the size of a grain of rice, that may transform post-surgical cardiac care, especially ...

Researchers at Northwestern University just found a way to make a temporary pacemaker that’s controlled by light—and it’s smaller than a grain of rice. A study on the new device, published last week ...

Laura holds a Master's in Experimental Neuroscience and a Bachelor's in Biology from Imperial College London. Her areas of expertise include health, medicine, psychology, and neuroscience. Laura holds ...

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 ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- A baby is recovering at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia after receiving the smallest pacemaker in the world. The tiny pacemaker that is keeping the baby alive was adapted ...

A 76-year-old man has become one of the first people in the country to be fitted with a new pacemaker 10 times smaller than a standard device and with a battery that can last for up to 20 years. Heart ...