Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A pacemaker next to a single grain of rice on a fingertip. Northwestern University researchers have engineered a temporary ...

The device also dissolves once it is no longer needed, making invasive removal a thing of the past.

The wire-free pacemaker could benefit patients recovering from cardiac surgery, without the need for added operations to remove it. Reading time 2 minutes A team of scientists created a novel type of ...

The heart may be small, but its rhythm powers life. When something throws that rhythm off—especially after surgery—it can become a race against time to restore balance. For decades, doctors have ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Roughly one percent of infants are born with heart defects every year. The majority of these cases only require a temporary ...

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 ...

Sometimes, durability is the last thing one might want in a medical device. Implants that dissolve into the body after they serve their purpose save the trouble of needing to be removed. Now ...

The tiny pacemaker sits next to a single grain of rice on a fingertip. The device is so small that it can be non-invasively injected into the body via a syringe. Northwestern University engineers have ...

Last summer, Northwestern University researchers introduced the first-ever transient pacemaker—a fully implantable, wireless device that harmlessly dissolves in the body after it's no longer needed.

Engineers have taken their transient pacemaker and integrated it into a coordinated network of four soft, flexible, wireless wearable sensors and control units placed on different anatomically ...