Dr. Myerburg answers the question: 'How Do Pacemakers Know To Pace Faster?' — -- Question: How do pacemakers know when I need a faster heart rate, for example when I am exercising or anxious?

Your heart runs on electricity! Discover how tiny sparks keep it beating — and how Buffalo inventor Wilson Greatbatch’s “happy accident” led to the pacemaker, a life-saving device that changed ...

Modern Family star Julie Bowen has revealed she has had a pacemaker in her heart since the age of 29. The actor, best known for playing Claire Dunphy in the ABC sitcom, spoke in a podcast interview.

Patients whose medical beliefs and choices feel incomprehensible, even infuriating, to us clinicians are some of the hardest ...

It sounds like the theoretical impossibility of perpetual motion, but engineers at the University of Michigan have created a pacemaker that is powered by the beating of your heart -- no batteries ...

Julie Bowen is feeling thankful for modern medicine. The Modern Family star recently shared that she's had a pacemaker since she was just 29 years old due to a condition that leads her heart rate to ...