Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A pacemaker next to a single grain of rice on a fingertip. Northwestern University researchers have engineered a temporary ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Roughly one percent of infants are born with heart defects every year. The majority of these cases only require a temporary ...

The monarch’s anesthesiologist Bjørn Bendz said the pacemaker will make his journey back to Norway safer Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022.

Chicago — A new, tiny pacemaker — smaller than a grain of rice — developed at Northwestern University could play a sizable role in the future of medicine, according to the engineers who developed it.

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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 ...

Northwestern researchers have developed the world’s smallest pacemaker, which with its dissolvable nature allows it to be inserted non-invasively into patients’ bodies. Fit into the tip of a syringe, ...

When the temporary pacemaker is no longer needed, surgeons remove the pacemaker electrodes. But potential complications include infection, dislodgement, torn or damaged tissues, bleeding and blood ...

CHICAGO, Ill. — Cardiac pacemakers require wires to be implanted in the chest to help control the patient’s heartbeat. But now researchers have developed the first-ever wireless, battery-free pacing ...