Heart problems are nothing new. Humans have been fascinated by electrocardiography since the era of Hippocrates (via St. Luke's Hospital Cardiology Department). With each passing century, medicine's ...

When most people in medtech think of the early days of pacemaker development, they often think of Earl Bakken, Medtronic's co-founder credited with the development of the first battery-operated ...

Today's pacemakers are about the size of a small matchbox, and future models are expected to shrink even further, becoming smaller than a grain of rice. Now, these devices, depending on the model, can ...

Nicholas P.D. Smyth, 88, a doctor and former George Washington University faculty member who conducted groundbreaking studies in heart pacemaker design and function, died Nov. 29 of congestive heart ...

Sixty-seven years ago on Halloween, a rolling power outage wreaked havoc across the Twin Cities and at the University of Minnesota hospital, where cardiac patients were relying on electrical ...

Sixty-two years ago, an electrical engineering researcher at UB named Wilson Greatbatch made one of the most important medical breakthroughs of the 20th century when he invented the implantable ...

Many invention tales start with an intent. In this case, the story started with a simple error. While working on a heart rate recorder in 1956, Wilson Greatbatch took ...

The implantable pacemaker, a medical marvel that has extended millions of lives since its invention nearly 60 years ago, is getting a 21st century makeover. First came a wireless version; these ...

Law360 (April 21, 2010, 3:30 PM EDT) -- St. Jude Medical Inc. has reached a settlement in a lawsuit brought by a prominent cardiologist alleging the medical device maker stole information about the ...