Balance athletic goals with arrhythmia risk: match the device model and sensor to the sport, and use stress testing to set detection zones and avoid inappropriate therapy.

Cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIEDs) constitute a major breakthrough in the management of heart rhythm disorders. These devices largely include bradycardia pacemakers, biventricular ...

Relatively weak magnets in consumer products have always posed some risk, usually very low, to the function of pacemakers and implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs). However, stronger, ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the American Heart Association are cautioning Americans with pacemakers or implantable cardioverter-defibrillator that some cell phones or ...

An electromagnetic therapy for depression shouldn't damage a person's pre-existing implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD), multiple experiments indicated. There was a low risk of ICD damage or ...

If you have had a pacemaker or an ICD fitted you may already be aware that you need to be wary of certain things when choosing new electronics – other than the obvious how good the camera is and ...