Northwestern University researchers have engineered a temporary pacemaker so small that it can fit on the tip of a syringe and be injected, eliminating the need for surgery. The ...

Roughly one percent of infants are born with heart defects every year. The majority of these cases only require a temporary implant for about seven days to allow time for the heart to naturally ...

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.

Engineers at Northwestern University have developed the world’s smallest pacemaker. It’s so small, as a matter of fact, that it fits inside the tip of a syringe. This means that it’s injectable, so ...

A two-month-old baby is thriving after receiving the world’s smallest pacemaker late last year. According to doctors, Mikey Oliveri was born prematurely and weighed just 2.5 kg and had his life saved ...

In a breakthrough development, scientists from Northwestern University, have unveiled the world's smallest pacemaker, tinier than one could ever imagine- even smaller than the size of a rice grain.

The FDA approved Jan. 21 Medtronic’s Micra AV, the world’s smallest pacemaker with atrioventricular synchrony, according to the company. The device is designed to treat patients with AV block, a ...

Walking into the sterile, catheterization lab at Saint Agnes Medical Center in Northeast Fresno is like stepping into a war room in the battle against a potentially deadly heart condition with the ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Tiny device can be inserted with a syringe, then dissolves after it's no longer needed. (Nanowerk News) Northwestern University engineers have developed a pacemaker so tiny that it can fit inside the ...