Imagine a heart patient with a pacemaker—one of the millions who rely on these tiny, implanted devices to keep their hearts beating steadily. While pacemakers save lives every day, their ability to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. A physician who writes about challenges with navigating healthcare. Pacemakers are not designed or approved to provide real‑time ...

Data from Nancy Guthrie's pacemaker has helped shed light on the events leading up to her kidnapping, but there are significant limits in how much data the devices can collect. Most importantly for ...

DENVER (KDVR) — One part of the investigation into the disappearance of “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie’s mother focuses on the missing woman’s implanted medical device. Investigators found Nancy ...

Nancy Guthrie’s 2 a.m. pacemaker spike on the day she vanished could mean that the elderly woman was involved in a heart rate-surging struggle with her possible captors, a lead cardiologist speculated ...

The heart devices do not track location, nor do they transmit across large distances. By Gina Kolata Like an estimated three million Americans, Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of the NBC News ...

A pacemaker, which unconfirmed media reports say Nancy Guthrie has, does not contain GPS and cannot be used to track a person's location. A pacemaker will continue to function even if it stops syncing ...

Robert Kowal, MD, remembers vividly the day he was first introduced to the concept of Medtronic’s leadless pacemaker, which went on to become known as Micra. He was a practicing electrophysiologist ...

When Aurora Ernzen was just 5 days old, doctors performed surgery to insert a pacemaker in her chest. The device was new, permitted through emergency use guidelines from the U.S. Food and Drug ...