Don't let your surgeon toss your old heart pacemaker out with the trash. Used pacemakers can be refurbished, researchers ...

Pacemakers with at least six years of battery life and proper electrical function were sterilized for reuse. The "My Heart ...

Now very soon your surgeon will not have to toss your old heart pacemaker out in the trash. According to cardiologists, used ...

Old” pacemakers may still work for years, so doctors are refurbishing used devices and donating them to patients in low- and middle-income countries.

In the My Heart Your Heart trial, research found that reconditioned pacemakers are non-inferior to new pacemakers for ...

A global trial last year found the dual pacemaker had a 97% success rate in returning patients’ heartbeats to normal. Karen ...

The patients who made the biggest news at last week's meeting of the American Heart Association in Miami were those who can talk about their "tickers" without being cute. They are ...

I’ve gone through two pacemaker surgeries and a total of eight heart surgeries. My pacemaker’s batteries will die and will ...

A Louisville baby made headlines two years ago when she received the tiniest pacemaker ever implanted into a human at that ...

Many hope My Heart Your Heart will catalyze an effort to help patients worldwide who need but can’t afford these devices.

The success of a trial of refurbished pacemakers could help prevent some of the 15 million deaths related to CVD that occur ...

Monroe's Kendra Byerly set up a crowdfunding page for her boyfriend, Steve Raht, who is struggling with an inflated heart.