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 ...

Pacemakers and defibrillators do require some maintenance. Certain settings, such as how low the pacemaker will allow the pulse to go, can be adjusted over time. Doctors have computers that can ...

He was convicted in the 1987 triple murder of 29-year-old Angela Clay and her two young daughters and sentenced to death.

A Tennessee judge ruled Tuesday that the state can deactivate a death row inmate's implanted heart-regulating device at a ...

Cite this: Pacemaker and Defibrillator Therapy in Pediatrics and Congenital Heart Disease - Medscape - Sep 01, 2008. Abstract and Introduction Pacemaker Therapy ...

An implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) is a medical device similar to a pacemaker. However, it is somewhat larger (about the size of a small pager) and its main job is to save your life ...

But defibrillators, some of which can also perform the function of a pacemaker, have a switch that can be deactivated with an external magnetic field, and when researchers from the Henry Ford ...

The changes seem unlikely to impact common medical waivers for conditions such as vision and attention-deficit hyperactivity ...

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 ...