Vasovagal syncope, the most common type of syncope, is characterized by an increase in vagal tone and a drop in sympathetic tone that can lead to hypotension, with or without bradycardia. In 3 ...

Pacemakers and defibrillators have a growing use in pediatrics and in patients with congenital heart disease, but they present unique problems and implications for their implantation and follow-up.

The very first functional pacemaker cells created out of human stem cells have been developed by scientists from the McEwen Centre for Regenerative Medicine, at Toronto, Canada. To date, electronic ...

WASHINGTON, July 16 (Reuters) - Researchers have succeeded in turning ordinary cardiac muscle cells into specialized ones that deliver a steady heartbeat using a gene therapy procedure they predict ...

Working with guinea pigs, Johns Hopkins scientists have created what is believed to be the first biologic pacemaker for the heart, paving the way for a genetically engineered alternative to implanted ...

Using specialized pacemakers to recharge the weakened hearts of heart failure patients can halve the death rate from the disease and reduce hospitalizations by nearly a third, a Johns Hopkins study ...

Recycled pacemakers can function as well as new devices, a University of Michigan-led study suggests. These used and reconditioned devices have the potential to increase access to pacemaker therapy in ...

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Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . ATLANTA — Compared with conventional physical therapy, physical therapy enhanced with a shoulder pacemaker ...

CHESTERFIELD, Mo. — At St. Luke's hospital, sometimes the best medicine comes not from someone in a white coat, but a furry one. "I think it's awesome," said heart patient Sue Bremer. She's talking ...