The newly studied heart pump device is the size of a AA battery. In this undated stock photo a Dr. listens with stethoscope. STOCK PHOTO/Getty Images New promising data finds that a small heart pump ...

A Boston teen in need of a heart transplant is carrying an artificial heart through the halls of her junior high. Kyah DeSimone’s story of survival began in 8th grade when she started feeling a ...

Mechanical and electrical energy are linked and can be exchanged back and forth. Just like ultrasound converts electrical voltage into pressure or sound, we can engineer similar materials onto ...

Researchers at Rice University and the Texas Heart Institute have created the internal components for a battery-free pacemaker, designed to be inserted directly into the heart and free of wires. The ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link A 26-year-old prison inmate in Italy purposefully swallowed a AA battery, and, two hours later, went to the emergency room with stomach pain. But ...

Atrial fibrillation – a form of irregular heartbeat, or arrhythmia – leads to more than 454,000 hospitalizations and nearly 160,000 deaths in the United States each year. Globally, it is estimated ...