Your heart’s job is to keep your pulse steady to pump blood throughout your body. Sometimes your heart rate is slower when you’re relaxing, and sometimes it’s faster when you’re exercising or stressed ...

Research by Benjamin Sanchez Terrones, Ph.D., and Benjamin Steinberg, M.D., suggests that some wearable smart devices could interfere with cardiac implantable electronic devices such as pacemakers and ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A single burst of antitachycardia pacing (ATP) reduced risk for shocks in patients with an implantable ...

Electric shocks delivered by subcutaneous defibrillators are equally effective compared to shocks delivered by conventional transvenous defibrillators, according to a study published in the journal ...

Cleveland Clinic doctors were the first in the world to successfully implant leadless pacemaker defibrillator systems in two patients as part of a global clinical trial sponsored by Boston Scientific, ...

A man convicted of killing his girlfriend and her two young daughters in the 1980s said he was “hurting so bad” while he was given a lethal injection Tuesday in Tennessee, where authorities had ...

A case study of a patient who experienced inappropriate shocks from her defibrillator is presented in Heart Rhythm Case Reports, an official journal of the Heart Rhythm Society, published by Elsevier.