As the search for Savannah Guthrie's mother, Nancy, continues, a cardiologist explains how pacemakers work and if they can be ...

Researchers at Northwestern University just found a way to make a temporary pacemaker that’s controlled by light—and it’s smaller than a grain of rice. A study on the new device, published last week ...

You will learn how pacemaker data has already sharpened the timeline in Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance and what investigators can — and cannot — hope to get from the device and its manufacturer. Law ...

If your heart beats too slowly or gets out of rhythm, a pacemaker can send an electrical pulse to that muscle and get it back on track. To do that, pacemakers need generators with batteries, and ...

Information about Nancy Guthrie's pacemaker helped authorities piece together a new timeline in her kidnapping. Can the devices track you?

Engineers at Northwestern University have developed the world’s smallest pacemaker. It’s so small, as a matter of fact, that it fits inside the tip of a syringe. This means that it’s injectable, so ...

The tiny pacemaker sits next to a single grain of rice on a fingertip. The device is so small that it can be non-invasively injected into the body via a syringe. Northwestern University engineers have ...

The human heart is the ultimate timepiece. And yet it's not always the most reliable one. So an estimated one million people per year get back-up systems, pacemakers, implanted to restore the heart's ...

Pengju Li consults to the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering. He receives funding from the University of Chicago. By harnessing light, my colleagues and I designed a wireless, ultrathin ...

Physicians at Sheba Medical Center implanted a pacemaker in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu early Sunday morning. He was admitted to the hospital on Saturday night after an alert relayed by the ...