He says that medications for high blood pressure or blood thinners can be stopped cold turkey and may not have any immediate side effects to the patient. Stopping these medications, Naidu says, may increase a patient's chances of having a stroke, but it doesn't guarantee it.

Nancy Guthrie’s 2 a.m. pacemaker spike on the day she vanished could mean that the elderly woman was involved in a heart rate-surging struggle with her possible captors, a lead cardiologist speculated Thursday.

Data presented during a Late Breaking Clinical Trial at Heart Rhythm 2014 is the industry’s largest study of remote management of pacemaker patients ST. PAUL, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- St. Jude Medical, Inc., a global medical device company, announced ...

Medtronic has received FDA clearance for a mobile app that allows patients to remotely forward data from their pacemakers with their physicians. The app is paired with a device, the MyCareLink Smart Monitor. The Monitor reads data from the pacemaker and ...

A new leadless dual-chamber pacemaker for patients with heart issues could be available later this year, according to new research published last week and funded by Abbott Medical. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has provided the new data as part of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you have a heart rhythm disorder, you may have considered getting a pacemaker -- but you're wary of having a small electronic device implanted inside your chest. Is it worth it?

Mission Hospital has implanted a pacemaker without wires, or what is commonly referred to as leads, and placed it directly inside the heart.