This "decision making" is done by the pacemaker on a beat-to-beat basis. In most people with pacemakers, the heart's own electrical system is generating most of the heartbeats. The pacemaker ...

Arnold Schwarzenegger has become more like his iconic Terminator character after having surgery last week to receive a pacemaker, the 76-year-old actor and former California governor announced Monday.

Relatively weak magnets in consumer products have always posed some risk, usually very low, to the function of pacemakers and implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs). However, stronger ...

The doctor makes a cut in the skin just below your collarbone. The cut may be on either side of your chest. The doctor will put the pacemaker leads through the cut. The leads go into a large blood ...

Surgeons have been opening chests and implanting pacemakers for decades. The devices save millions of people by controlling their abnormal heartbeats. Now doctors are testing a new version of ...

Kurnool: Medical experts have advised patients to consult their doctors before undergoing an MRI scan. Although MRI scans are ...

Mr Wills has suffered with problems from traditional pacemakers in the past, making everyday life difficult. "If you had people around you with mobile phones, it really affected how the pacemaker ...