NORTH PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Pacemakers and defibrillators have saved an untold number of Americans with heart problems. Still, some who could benefit from them are reluctant to get them. In this ...

Instead he tried to be a patient passenger. As this trio proves, having an implanted pacemaker or defibrillator to regulate heart rhythms is no reason to stay home -- at least not for long.

Some portable tech devices equipped with powerful magnets can interfere with your heart implant's ability to regulate dangerous irregular heart rhythms, a new study reports.

Magnets and other components inside iPhone 12 devices could disable pacemakers or implanted cardiac defibrillators, tech giant Apple has warned, potentially putting millions of people at risk for ...

The study came as the FDA and cardiac specialists opened a daylong meeting yesterday to discuss safety problems with implanted defibrillators and pacemakers, and how to decide which patients need ...

He said he does explain to patients that certain types of equipment and environments can interfere with pacemakers and defibrillators so that they can take precautionary measures.

Magnets in the iPhone 12 can disable pacemakers and implanted defibrillators, Henry Ford doctors found. They prompted Apple to issue a warning.

Medtronic has issued a warning about rapid unexpected battery depletion that may happen in seven kinds of implantable defibrillators, affecting nearly 340,000 implanted devices worldwide.

Cardiac pacemakers have become a familiar way to treat a slow heart rate. From 1990 to 2002, 2.25 million pacemakers were implanted in patients in the United States. The vast majority of patients ...

EnRhythm(TM) pacemaker and EnTrust(TM) defibrillators now available in Europe Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE:MDT) today announced the European introductions of the Medtronic EnRhythm(TM) pacemaker (dual ...

More than 17,000 of them — 8,834 pacemakers and 8,489 ICDs — had to be surgically removed because of confirmed malfunctions, Maisel found. These were not simple problems like battery depletion.