Pulsed field ablation (PFA) technology has been used to treat atrial fibrillation for the first time in the U.S.

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A study published Feb. 25 in Circulation…

Medtronic and the FDA were both aware of battery and wire connection defects in a now-recalled heart failure pacemaker for over a year before patients developed serious side effects, according to a report…

A recent analysis of FitBit data suggests there is no one “normal” resting heart rate for humans, with users’ average HR coming in at between 40 and 109 beats per minute, Discover Magazine reported.…

Medtronic has received CE mark approval in the European Union for its Cobalt and Crome implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) and cardiac resynchronization therapy-defibrillators (CRT-Ds).…

A panel of experts from the Clinical Genome Resource (ClinGen) are publicly disputing nine of 17 genes once thought to be linked to long QT syndrome.

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Emergency phone operators in Victoria, Australia, may soon have access to AI that could alert them to callers in cardiac arrest, ZDNet reports.

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The FDA has approved a Medtronic-run trial, PULSED AF, to evaluate the safety and efficacy of new tech that uses pulsed electric fields to treat AFib.

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Burnout may increase a person’s risk of developing atrial fibrillation by as much as 20%, researchers reported this month in the …

Medtronic announced Jan. 21 it had received FDA approval for its Micra AV device—the world’s smallest pacemaker with atrioventricular (AV) synchrony.

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A medical technique that involves safely hyperventilating conscious, unmedicated patients could facilitate the use of radiotherapy for cardiac ablation, according to research published in …

The Heart Rhythm Society (HRS) and Consumer Technology Association (CTA) will debut new consumer guidelines this week focused on wearables that detect and monitor cardiovascular metrics.…

A study published in…

Researchers at the University of Houston are pioneering a unique method for developing biological pacemakers: converting stem cells found in fat to biologic pacemaker cells.

Pharmacologist and UH associate professor…

New research out of Spain suggests we’re one step closer to personalized medicine for patients with atrial fibrillation.

The effort, led by David Filgueiras, MD, PhD, and colleagues at the Centro Nacional de…

Atrial fibrillation patients who are obese are less likely to respond to sodium channel blockers than their normal-weight peers, according to a new study.

Obesity is a known risk factor for AFib, senior author Dawood Darbar,…

Patients with atrial fibrillation may be more likely to stick to a regimen of oral anticoagulation if they’re first prescribed OACs in the emergency department, according to a study published Dec. 9 in the…

Brushing teeth three or more times a day could dramatically lower a person’s risk for CVDs like heart failure and atrial fibrillation, according to preliminary research out of Ewha Womans University in Seoul, South Korea.

People trained to perform CPR with a virtual reality tool were able to achieve comparable chest compression rates as those trained face-to-face in a recent randomized study—but the VR approach still has a long way to go.

A senior at a Utah high school received a scholarship this month based on her idea for an automated CPR assistance device.

Kennedy Hall, of Cedar Valley High School in Eagle Mountain, Utah, came up with the idea for…

A novel pacemaker designed to mimic a patient’s organic breath increased blood flow to the heart in a study of individuals with heart failure, according to research published in the journal…