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 ...

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 ...

The device also dissolves once it is no longer needed, making invasive removal a thing of the past.

Researchers at Northwestern University just found a way to make a temporary pacemaker that’s controlled by light—and it’s smaller than a grain of rice. A study on the new device, published last week ...

The heart may be small, but its rhythm powers life. When something throws that rhythm off—especially after surgery—it can become a race against time to restore balance. For decades, doctors have ...

The wire-free pacemaker could benefit patients recovering from cardiac surgery, without the need for added operations to remove it. Reading time 2 minutes A team of scientists created a novel type of ...

Laura holds a Master's in Experimental Neuroscience and a Bachelor's in Biology from Imperial College London. Her areas of expertise include health, medicine, psychology, and neuroscience. Laura holds ...

Last summer, Northwestern University researchers introduced the first-ever transient pacemaker—a fully implantable, wireless device that harmlessly dissolves in the body after it's no longer needed.

Surgical procedure. Image by Pfree2014 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0 Surgical procedure. Image by Pfree2014 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0 A new, tiny device can be inserted with a syringe to act as a pacemaker.

Sometimes, durability is the last thing one might want in a medical device. Implants that dissolve into the body after they serve their purpose save the trouble of needing to be removed. Now ...