A chance mistake in 1956 by Wilson Greatbatch led to a groundbreaking discovery. He accidentally created a consistent ...

Know Your Neighbor” tells the untold stories of interesting people who live in our community. To nominate someone for this ...

Pre-randomization Atrioventricular Interval Modulation Therapy (“AVIM Therapy”) set-up data from the MODERATO II randomized, prospective, ...

Talking with Mike Sheehy, a senior IT director at Abbott in Lake County, he comes off as a friendly family man. The fourth of five kids, the U.S. Army veteran enjoys going on runs with his wife, and ...

Medtronic and Biotronik both took steps forward this week with their pacemaker hardware designed to target newly emerging geography in the heart, for delivering electric signals that more closely ...

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 ...

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.

Don’t tell Susan Avery her dancers are “young at heart.” “We are not young at heart, we’re old,” said Avery, founder and director of the Pacemakers, a senior dance team that performs all over the ...

Keith Krehbiel has broken more ribs than he can count — from bike crashes to falls during pickleball matches. Another time, he climbed up the stairwell in his home and blacked out just as he reached ...

The U.K.’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) recommendation that leadless cardiac pacemakers be used as the standard of care for people with slow heart rhythms (bradyarrhythmias ...

Nebraska head coach Fred Hoiberg cited medical issues as the reason for smacking an Iowa fan’s phone after they upset the Cornhuskers earlier this week. Hoiberg, who went viral after swiping toward a ...

An expert tells PEOPLE why pacemakers have Bluetooth technology, and how it can help locate Savannah Guthrie’s missing mother Nathan Congleton/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty The Bluetooth ...