Traditional pacemakers have a battery and thin wires, called leads, connected to the heart. This new version helps regulate ...

At Big Ten Media Days in Chicago Thursday, Nebraska head coach Fred Hoiberg shared an update on his status after undergoing a recent heart procedure to replace his pacemaker. “I feel really good,” ...

Nebraska men's basketball coach Fred Hoiberg will undergo a medical procedure this Friday. The Huskers' head coach will have his pacemaker replaced. This will be the second pacemaker to be replaced ...

Vice President Dick Cheney's routine checkup on Friday revealed no new blockages in his heart, but doctors said he needs a new battery for a special pacemaker he has in his chest, a spokeswoman said.

VATICAN CITY — The Vatican is acknowledging for the first time that Pope Benedict XVI has had a pacemaker for years and that its battery was replaced a few months ago in secret. Vatican spokesman Rev.

In a short operation yesterday, surgeons replaced the pacemaker of a 115-year-old Baltimore man. The battery in the original one, implanted when John E. Bell was 104, had run out. Because of his ...

Researchers at Rice University and the Texas Heart Institute have created the internal components for a battery-free pacemaker, designed to be inserted directly into the heart and free of wires. The ...

After Emily Coles suddenly collapsed at home, she had to put her life on hold while doctors investigated the cause. Emily now knows that her heart had stopped beating for ten seconds, but at the time ...

Although cardiac pacemakers have saved countless lives, they do have at least one shortcoming – like other electronic devices, their batteries wear out. When this happens, of course, surgery is ...

A way of using heartbeats to power pacemakers has been developed that could spare patients the ordeal of repeated surgery. The implanted devices, which regulate heart rhythm, have saved countless ...