In 1992, an episode of the iconic TV show Law & Order aired a storyline that now feels eerily prescient. The episode revolved around a teenage boy who dies due to a faulty pacemaker. As detectives dig ...

Learn about swimming with a pacemaker, including when it’s safe to resume swimming and what precautions to take after surgery to protect your health.

Gladys Knepper, at 93, had a morning routine that never wavered. She woke up at 6 and made her bed. She got a pot of coffee going and went outside to pick up her copy of the Dubuque Telegraph Herald.

You must have heard of pacemakers? They are required when the heart's natural system malfunctions, causing it to beat too ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Electrocardiograms, or ECGs, record the electrical activity of your heart. Randy Faris/The Image Bank via Getty Images Your ...

Oct 27 (Reuters) - Recycled pacemakers donated from U.S. funeral homes could offer a safe way to get the heart devices to people in the developing world who otherwise might not be able to afford them, ...

A New Smyrna Beach nurse suffered from a heart rhythm disorder that caused her to faint, until she received a "life-saving" high-tech pacemaker. The Micra AV pacemaker is a leadless device smaller ...