Some portable tech devices equipped with powerful magnets can interfere with your heart implant's ability to regulate dangerous irregular heart rhythms, a new study reports. Swiss researchers found ...

Two types of implantable cardioverter defibrillators can reduce the risk of sudden cardiac death with HCM. Pacemakers and implantable loop recorders also may be options.

Your heart’s job is to keep your pulse steady to pump blood throughout your body. Sometimes your heart rate is slower when you’re relaxing, and sometimes it’s faster when you’re exercising or stressed ...

Cardiologists at Henry Ford Health System in Detroit say they discovered that the iPhone 12 has the ability to deactivate implantable cardiac devices when held too close to a person’s chest. Apple’s ...

Data presented during a Late Breaking Clinical Trial at Heart Rhythm 2014 is the industry’s largest study of remote management of pacemaker patients ST. PAUL, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- St. Jude Medical ...

Pacemakers and defibrillators have a growing use in pediatrics and in patients with congenital heart disease, but they present unique problems and implications for their implantation and follow-up.

For congestive heart failure patient Chet Consolazione even a short walk around his Petaluma garden would have been a challenge a year ago. "I'd sit down on the floor and rest. Then I'd go back to bed ...

The heart devices do not track location, nor do they transmit across large distances. Like an estimated three million Americans, Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of the NBC News anchor Savannah ...