By removing the leads and having the new pacemaker directly stimulate the heart, Medtronic is making the device safer as well as smaller. At just a fraction of the size of current devices, the new ...

Minnesota CEOs crowded around the golden opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday morning, not on Wall Street ...

— -- The Sprint Fidelis leads — wires implanted in patients' hearts and connected to defibrillators that shock abnormal heartbeats back to normal — have suffered a higher-than-expected ...

Mackin said Medtronic's device is about 30 percent smaller than the Nanostim pacemaker. Leads are considered the weak link of pacemaker and defibrillator therapy, with the thin wires fracturing or ...

TEL AVIV (MarketWatch) -- Medtronic Inc., the Minneapolis medical-technology company, said on Monday that it would voluntarily suspend distribution of the Sprint Fidelis family of defibrillation ...

In a recent clinical trial, Medtronic's wireless pacemaker, the “Medtronic Micra Transcatheter Pacing System”, was proven to be significantly more effective than current options with a high ...

Medtronic Plc's wireless pacemaker was approved in the United states on Wednesday, making it the first pacemaker that does not need wired leads to correct slow heart rate.

What’s the difference between MRI-safe and conventional pacemaker leads? A little thicker, certainly, but otherwise (at least on the surface), not too much: The recently-approved MRI-safe active ...

However, rival product launches, such as St. Jude's Nanostim leadless pacemaker and its Quartet NXT leads, could provide resistance to Medtronic’s growth plans in this segment in the near term.

The first unexpected power failure in a Medtronic InSync III pacemaker didn't set off the alarm bells. But by the fourth time, doctors at the Minneapolis Heart Institute knew they had to act quickly.

Medtronic avoids pacemaker lead lawsuit for now. By Reuters. December 21, 2016 10:04 PM UTC Updated December 21, 2016. By Erica Teichert. A federal judge in Illinois has dismissed ...

The news, reported Monday, knocked Medtronic Inc. shares down 11 percent.Medtronic told doctors to stop using the Sprint Fidelis wires after linking five deaths to breaks in them.