The increasing use of cardiac implantable electronic devices including pacemakers, implantable cardioverter-defibrillators and cardiac resynchronization devices has led to an increasing need for ...

Relatively weak magnets in consumer products have always posed some risk, usually very low, to the function of pacemakers and implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs). However, stronger ...

The idea of a machine controlling their hearts gives them doubts," says Douglas Mah, MD, director of Boston Children's Pacemaker and ICD Program. Aiming to reduce the need for pacemakers ...