Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Electrocardiograms, or ECGs, record the electrical activity of your heart. Randy Faris/The Image Bank via Getty Images Your ...

There are unique technical issues that must be considered with the implantation of devices in small patients and those with CHD. Although most centers report low complication rates of complications in ...

Heart problems are nothing new. Humans have been fascinated by electrocardiography since the era of Hippocrates (via St. Luke's Hospital Cardiology Department). With each passing century, medicine's ...

Children's Hospital Los Angeles cardiologist Michael Silka, MD, helped to pioneer the development of indications for the use of pacemakers and implantable defibrillators in young patients. From 1998 ...

As part of a global clinical trial, Cleveland Clinic has successfully implanted a leadless pacemaker defibrillator system in the world's first two patients, according to a news release. The novel ...

BOSTON - Could your fitness tracker be putting your health at risk? Fitness and wellness trackers in the form of smart watches, rings, and scales that allow consumers to monitor their own heart rates, ...

Some portable tech devices equipped with powerful magnets can interfere with your heart implant's ability to regulate dangerous irregular heart rhythms, a new study reports. Swiss researchers found ...

Headphones used with MP3 digital music players like the iPod may interfere with heart pacemakers and implantable defibrillators, U.S. researchers said Sunday. The MP3 players themselves posed no ...