(Reuters Health) - There's good news for people with pacemakers and the doctors who treat them. A new study reinforces earlier work suggesting that MRI scans are safe for patients with older devices, ...

MRIs show incredible detail and help doctors diagnose medical issues that were invisible years ago, but people with pacemakers couldn’t undergo MRIs until now. A medical breakthrough makes MRIs safe ...

An implanted heart pacemaker is helping keep 74-year-old Barbara Hanson steady on her feet. 'I can keep up and I'm not worrying about whether or not I'm going to fall down,' Hanson said. 'And maybe my ...

RALEIGH, NC ( Ivanhoe Newswire) -- They're magnetic mystery solvers helping doctors spot everything from brain aneurysms to tumors. But millions of people with pacemakers haven't been able to use ...

Community Healthcare System electrophysiologists are the first in Northwest Indiana to implant a new tiny pacemaker that requires no incision or skin pocket and has no lead. Need an MRI? No problem.

MRI scans save lives by detecting diseases and identifying injuries, but for millions of people with pacemakers these important tests have been off limits. MRI scans save lives by detecting diseases ...

Abbott Laboratories' St. Jude Medical heart-device division will see an immediate boost in sales — and credibility with investors — following Wednesday's announcement that U.S. regulators have finally ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . CHICAGO — Patients with pacemakers and implantable cardioverter defibrillators that were not MRI-conditional ...

CHICAGO, IL — Patients with a conventional pacemaker or implanted cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) who need a definitive diagnostic nonthoracic MRI scan—of their brain, lower spine, hip, or knee, for ...

BOSTON, MA — Most magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is safe to perform in patients with implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) and pacemaker systems that aren't classified as MRI-conditional as ...

For years, older model, so-called legacy pacemakers were not compatible with MRIs because the metal in the pacemakers caused the magnetic resonance imaging devices to fail, lead tips to overheat and ...

DALLAS -- For years, older model, so-called legacy pacemakers were not compatible with MRIs because the metal in the pacemakers caused the magnetic resonance imaging devices to fail, lead tips to ...