This story is part of a series on the current progression in Regenerative Medicine. This piece discusses the regeneration of the cardiovascular system. In 1999, I defined regenerative medicine as the ...

More expensive pacemakers that “pace” the heart’s upper and lower chambers are worth the extra cost because they can reduce the risk of hospitalization and disability in patients with heart disease, ...

Approximately 50,000 single-chamber pacemakers are currently implanted in the U.S. each year; until now, these patients have not been able to access MRI scans. BIOTRONIK is the first company in the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The first pacemaker implantation was performed in 1958, and the technology has undergone many advances since ...

Guidelines that recommend dual-chamber pacing over single-chamber pacing for treatment of atrioventricular block have recently been questioned. Previous clinical trials supporting these ...

The product is Abbott’s Aveir system, which is the world’s first approved dual-chamber pacemaker. Other leadless pacemakers are single chamber, meaning they connect to one chamber in the patient’s ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A dual-chamber leadless pacemaker met 3-month safety and efficacy performance goals. The device avoids ...

Big news comes in a very small package for the more than 200,000 Americans who get a pacemaker each year to treat slow or irregular heart rhythms. Last week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ...

The FDA approved the Aveir DR dual-chamber leadless pacemaker, the first such device to make it to the market, manufacturer Abbott announced. Approved for the treatment of abnormal or slow heart ...

NEW ORLEANS -- A leadless dual-chamber pacemaker with bidirectional wireless communication turned in very promising short-term results in patients with standard indications for dual-chamber pacing, ...

NEW ORLEANS, May 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Abbott today announced late-breaking results from the AVEIR™ dual-chamber (DR) i2i™ Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) study, a large-scale study to ...

Alan Osmond, oldest member of The Osmonds, dies at 76 years old Alan Osmond, the oldest member of The Osmonds, died at age 76.He died at approximately 8:30 p.m. on Monday, next to hiswife, Suzanne, ...