On 29 January 2014, St. Jude Medical issued a “Dear Colleague” letter regarding their review of incident reports on older-model pacemakers (Affinity, Entity, Integrity, Identity, Sustain, Frontier, ...

It seems that St. Jude Medical has a bit of a problem with some of its older pacemakers. On January 29, the company issued a "Dear Colleague" letter advising physicians that some of their older ...

Complete healing from pacemaker surgery can take up to 6 weeks. However, people may need to restrict themselves from certain activities, such as heavy lifting, for longer. Factors such as age and ...

Risk of cardiac implantable electronic device (CIED) infection and resulting mortality hinged on the timing and extent of infection, which may ultimately come down to the type of procedure that the ...

Dear Doctor: My mom is 93, and her doctor says she needs a pacemaker to control a heart arrhythmia. How does a pacemaker work? Is the operation dangerous for someone her age? Dear Reader: A pacemaker ...

Magnets used in portable devices including cellphones and smart watches may impair pacemakers and affect other implanted devices, the Food and Drug Administration warned Thursday. The FDA advises ...

Q. Will sex mess up my pacemaker? A. Only if powerful magnets are involved. Seriously, your pacemaker is safe. Modern pacemakers are stable devices, but there are still some precautions you should ...

Before any Democrats buy Dick Cheney an iPod for Christmas let's be clear on what researchers are saying. (Picture from Wonkette, covering the same territory as this blog post.) What they have found ...