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Patient families often think that there are no complications when a pacemaker’s battery is low, so they anticipate an easy swap of the pacemaker from .

After a full day of work at the water treatment plant, Brian Lipham returned to his farm in Alexandria, Alabama, in time to ...

Her grandson was killed by a drunken driver, but his breakfast club lives on thanks to his grandmother, whom everyone now calls Grandma Peggy.

For Jeannine Lunsford of Melbourne, simply breathing became a struggle after her heart stopped in 2017; she had a pacemaker ...

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But one 70-year-old man was alerted to his own serious heart issue thanks to a warning message from his smart bed. According ...

For heart patients, the prospect of a lifetime-use heart pacemaker may soon become a reality. A Chinese research team has developed a self-powering pacemaker that generates electricity from the ...

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 ...

The FBI is using advanced bluetooth technology to try to find Nancy Guthrie's pacemaker. Pacemakers emit signals that could provide clues to the whereabouts of the missing 84-year-old. Flying ...

Authorities searching for Nancy Guthrie are deploying a piece of specialized tracking technology — commonly referred to as a “signal sniffer” — in an effort to detect emissions from her implanted ...

Imagine a heart patient with a pacemaker—one of the millions who rely on these tiny, implanted devices to keep their hearts beating steadily. While pacemakers save lives every day, their ability to ...