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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is the Medtronic wireless pacemaker, just revealed at TEDMED 2010, which can be implanted directly into your heart via catheter and permanently latch itself into flesh with tiny claws.

— -- 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Medical device maker Medtronic, which commercialized the world's first battery-powered pacemakers more than 60 years ago, just won approval for a new minimally invasive pacer that can tell whether ...

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 ...

MINNEAPOLIS - The world's smallest pacemaker is now being tested in humans and it was created by Minnesota based Medtronic. Because it is so small, implanting the device is minimally invasive as ...

(Reuters) - 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. The device ...