Nuclear pacemaker still energized after 34 years
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A U.S. surgeon who implanted a nuclear-powered pacemaker into a 20-year-old woman in 1973 says the device is still going strong after 34 years and may have saved money over the long run.
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Building an artificial heart has proved tougher than landing men on the moon, but a new study shows that a heart once considered a flop can prolong the lives of desperately sick patients until a donor heart is found.
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A heart patient who had muscle cells transferred from his leg to his heart makes good progress.
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Portable media players such as iPods  are unlikely to interfere with heart pacemakers, a U.S. Food  and Drug Administration researcher reported on Thursday.
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By Dan Vergano Scientists have inched closer to one day developing a drug that will extend the human life span. They're still not close, mind you, but closer.
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ATLANTA, June 20 -- Five years after a landmark study scared millions of women off hormones for menopause symptoms, new research suggests the pills may offer some heart benefits for certain women who start taking them in their 50s.
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Pricey pacemakers that regulate the  heart's upper and lower chambers separately are worth the extra  cost because they help keep patients out of the hospital, U.S.  researchers reported on Monday.
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Keith Felcyn, a retired senior editor of BusinessWeek magazine who lives in Greenwich, Conn., had not been able to fully extend the little and ring fingers of his left hand for 20 years. But last month, it took 20 minutes for a doctor in Ontario, Ore., to reverse his Dupuytrenâs disease, a benign but ultimately disabling disorder in which the fascia of the hand thickens and draws the fingers permanently into the palm.
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Two years ago, Andrew Smith received a heart transplant at UCLA Medical Center. Today, the 46-year-old is healthy once again, training to compete in a triathlon -- thanks to the
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Implanting a pacemaker could save the  lives of some patients with epilepsy who suffer dangerously  irregular heart rhythms during seizures, researchers said on  Friday.
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Vice President Dick Cheney&#039;s high-tech pacemaker is working properly and has not been activated by any irregular heartbeats, according to his annual physical on Saturday that showed his overall heart condition was stable.
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NEW YORK  - By delivering a small shock  that gets the heart beating regularly again, implantable  cardioverter-defibrillator or ICDs can save the lives of  patients with heart conditions. However, new research indicates  that this benefit may not extend to patients who've had a  recent heart attack.
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WASHINGTON - Pulsing transplanted heart cells with electrical current helps them grow into mature cardiac cells, bringing doctors closer to a grow-your-own heart patch, US researchers said Tuesday.
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A Northern Ireland-born heart expert whose pioneering techniques saved countless lives dies at the age of 88.
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For two decades, scientists have raced to carry out the first successful ovary transplant in women. The goal has not been to &quot;reverse the menopause&quot;, but to restore
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The stripped-out shell of a heart has been made to work again - using brand new cells planted inside it.
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+/- one second per 200 million years US physicists are rather pleased with themselves having perfected a clock "so accurate it will neither gain nor lose even a second in more than 200 million years", Reuters reports.â¦