Medtronic has received FDA clearance for a mobile app that allows patients to remotely forward data from their pacemakers with their physicians. The app is paired with a device, the MyCareLink Smart ...

The first unexpected power failure in a Medtronic InSync III pacemaker didn't set off the alarm bells. But by the fourth time, doctors at the Minneapolis Heart Institute knew they had to act quickly.

The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) extended its coverage of pacemakers on Thursday to include leadless models, or ones inserted inside the heart instead of attached by wires.

Sixty-seven years ago on Halloween, a rolling power outage wreaked havoc across the Twin Cities and at the University of Minnesota hospital, where cardiac patients were relying on electrical ...

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Five years ago, FDA approved Medtronic's Micra, the first leadless pacemaker to reach the U.S. market. Touted as the world's smallest pacemaker, the Medtronic device represented a major innovative ...

Medtronic was the only manufacturer of a leadless pacemaker in the U.S. market in the years after it won approval for its Micra device in 2016. While leadless pacemakers were designed to prevent lead- ...

EnRhythm(TM) pacemaker and EnTrust(TM) defibrillators now available in Europe Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE:MDT) today announced the European introductions of the Medtronic EnRhythm(TM) pacemaker ...

Medtronic has secured the FDA’s approval for the latest generation of its miniaturized, wireless pacemaker implants, the Micra AV2 and VR2. According to the company, the newest models can offer up to ...

When Medtronic’s pill-sized pacemaker, the Micra TPS, was shot out of the Earth’s atmosphere and into the harsh elements of space last month, neither the device’s creators nor Shelbi Klingsporn, the ...

COLLEGE PARK, Md., March 19 (Reuters) - Medtronic Inc's experimental MRI-safe pacemaker should be approved despite limited clinical data as long as further study is done, U.S. health advisers ...

A real-world study of Medtronic’s leadless pacemaker showed it led to fewer complications—with fewer patients having to return to the operating room—compared to wired cardiac implants over a period of ...