Balance athletic goals with arrhythmia risk: match the device model and sensor to the sport, and use stress testing to set detection zones and avoid inappropriate therapy.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. A physician who writes about challenges with navigating healthcare. Pacemakers are not designed or approved to provide real‑time ...

Data from Nancy Guthrie's pacemaker has helped shed light on the events leading up to her kidnapping, but there are significant limits in how much data the devices can collect. Most importantly for ...

DENVER (KDVR) — One part of the investigation into the disappearance of “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie’s mother focuses on the missing woman’s implanted medical device. Investigators found Nancy ...

Nancy Guthrie’s 2 a.m. pacemaker spike on the day she vanished could mean that the elderly woman was involved in a heart rate-surging struggle with her possible captors, a lead cardiologist speculated ...

The heart devices do not track location, nor do they transmit across large distances. By Gina Kolata Like an estimated three million Americans, Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of the NBC News ...

A pacemaker, which unconfirmed media reports say Nancy Guthrie has, does not contain GPS and cannot be used to track a person's location. A pacemaker will continue to function even if it stops syncing ...

McKenzie-Willamette Medical Center is now using a new, smaller dual-chamber leadless pacemaker system. The AVEIR™ DR system from Abbott eliminates the need for leads (wires) which can cause ...

The "Modern Family" alum had a low resting heart rate and doctors told her, “you're gonna be driving a car, and you're gonna pass out” Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum/YouTube Julie Bowen shared ...

Estimates suggest that around three million Americans are living with cardiac pacemakers, according to the American Heart Association. Now, thanks to MountainStar Healthcare, a new kind of pacemaker – ...

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 ...

VIENNA, Austria—Patients who require a pacemaker implant in the 30 days after TAVI have significantly greater risks of death up to a decade later, according to an analysis of the Swiss TAVI registry.