WASHINGTON (CN) – The Food and Drug Administration plans to reclassify the external pacemaker, so manufacturers have to follow “special controls” in a guidance document instead ...

The leads that connect external pacemakers to the heart can potentially cause problems, either if they're removed or left in place. German scientists are therefore developing an alternative, in the ...

In this Dec. 13, 2010 photo, Earl Bakken, an electronics repairman who started one of the world's largest medical device companies in 1949, poses at the Medtronic World Headquarters in Fridley, Minn.

You may not know his name, but you may know the device he created. Earl Bakken, an electronics repairman who created the first wearable external pacemaker and co-founded one of the world’s largest ...

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "North America Cardiac Pacemaker Devices Market Analysis (2017-2023)" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. The North America Cardiac Pacemaker ...

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 ...

Sixty-seven years ago on Halloween, a rolling power outage wreaked havoc across the Twin Cities and at the University of Minnesota hospital, where cardiac patients were relying on electrical ...

As 67-year-old Pamela Ham lay in a University Medical Center hospital bed last Monday morning, she was thankful she’s a baby boomer. Advances in medical care gave her a chance to beat back heart ...

MINNEAPOLIS - Earl Bakken, an electronics repairman who created the first wearable external pacemaker and co-founded one of the world's largest medical device companies, Medtronic, has died. He was 94 ...