Medtronic has received approval in Europe to sell a pacemaker designed to be safe for use in MRI machines.

Medtronic makes the gizmo, called the Revo MRI SureScan Pacing System. In a clinical test that included nearly 500 patients, none had any MRI-related complications.

Apple warns magnets in iPhone 12 models 'might interfere' with pacemakers, defibrillators "Though all iPhone 12 models contain more magnets than prior iPhone models, they're not expected to pose a ...

Medtronic has secured the FDA’s approval for the latest generation of its miniaturized, wireless pacemaker implants, the Micra AV2 and VR2. According to the company, the newest models can offer ...

Medtronic recommends physicians program affected pacemakers to a nonsusceptible pacing mode to mitigate the issue until the software update can be installed.

About eight months after claiming stateside approvals, Medtronic has secured a green light in Europe for the latest generation of its miniaturized leadless pacemakers. The CE mark covers the ...

World's tiniest pacemaker debuts: about 1 inch long A newly released pacemaker is one-tenth the size of common units. Made by Medtronic, which has Santa Rosa operations, it has no lead wires and ...

Halloween 1957: How a widespread blackout put Medtronic on the map with the invention of the portable pacemaker The outage rendered life-saving pacemakers useless, and triggered innovation.

When Apple revived MagSafe with the iPhone 12 lineup, one question brought up was how these latest devices with more magnets would interact with medical devices like pacemakers. Apple’s official ...

The remarkable and novel aspect of our case is that this dysfunction appears with a procedure considered to be consistently safe (application of a clinical magnet) and with a very low magnetic ...

An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated that the study was performed using a Medtronic pacemaker. It was actually performed using a defibrillator.