Medtronic earnings top estimates; raises outlook
CNN Money
regulators over quality system procedures at its Mounds View, Minnesota, pacemaker manufacturing facility to hurt its ability to introduce new products. An MRI-safe pacemaker is a key product in the company's pipeline. Shares of Medtronic r...
Medtronic Profit Rises 59% on Growth in Heart Devices (Update2)
Bloomberg
and elsewhere in 2010, including an implantable pacemaker designed to be used safely during an MRI scan. Patients with current pacemakers can’t get a magnetic- resonance imaging test because the scans may result in changes to the device’s ....
Super Ted: The amazing baby who has fought back from brink of death ...
Daily Mail
It means he has an irregular heart-beat that cannot be stablised by a pacemaker or with drugs. Ted was admitted to Freeman Hospital, Newcastle, for treatment just weeks after his birth in June. However, his battle for survival began six wee...
Building On The Past To Secure The Future
Hartford Business
... experimentation in his garage, Bakken produced the world’s first small, self-contained, transistorized, battery-powered pacemaker, which could be taped to the patient’s chest or bed free of any power cords or connections. The day after ...
Review | 'Under the Dome': No rules
Miami Herald
But no one in Springfield had their hands cut off by the dome's sudden descent or crashed a plane into it or drove his car full speed into it or had the pacemaker in his chest explode when he got too close (the dome emits a mysterious, low-...
The Renewed Heart of a Runner
Kitsap Sun
A pacemaker installed several years after the valve keeps his heartbeat regular as clockwork. Despite all the hardware, Wagner says he runs on a higher power. He’ll compete today in the Seattle Marathon , his sixth marathon since having ope...
Holidays, stress and hearts discussed by local cardiologist
The Shawnee News-Star
Holiday stress can have significant effects on a person’s health and enjoyment of the season but stress is not the primary cause of heart attacks during the holidays, as many might believe it to be. “Stress does not precipitate a heart atta...
MATTERS OF THE HEART: Local 13-year-old receives a heart transplant, allowing her to finally be 'a normal kid'
The Daily Dunklin Democrat
A local family had even more to be thankful for this holiday, as their 13-year-old daughter was given a new lease on life thanks to a heart transplant earlier this month. Katherine Massey, daughter...
Naked images at Sea-Tac Airport? It's for security
Seattle Post Intelligencer
He said they tend to have metallic implants or parts - a pacemaker, or artificial hips or knees -- that set off detectors. Baird also said the scanners, which TSA has been using since 2007, are not mandatory. Travelers always have the optio...
Medicare just fine the way it is, seniors say
The Day
When it comes to their health care coverage, Elizabeth O'Regan, Henry Daniels and Francis Gruill are satisfied customers - and wouldn't want anything that comes out of the health reform...
Mom does not want baby immunized
Detroit News
In the upper part of the heart is a little power plant called the pacemaker. It generates an electric signal. That signal has to reach the two lower heart chambers. It causes them to contract and pump blood out of the heart. The right ventr...