February 9, 2011 (Silver Spring, Maryland) — The FDA approved the first pacemaker specifically designed to be safe with magnetic resonance imaging scans [1]. Following the unanimous advice of its ...

Interventional cardiologists at Houston Northwest Medical Center are now implanting the first heart pacemaker that has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to be used safely during ...

COLLEGE PARK, Md., March 19 (Reuters) - Medtronic Inc's experimental MRI-safe pacemaker should be approved despite limited clinical data as long as further study is done, U.S. health advisers ...

Now, a new type of MRI-safe cardiac pacemaker is on the market, and 2 local men are among the first to get it. They received the new SureScan pacing system during nearly simultaneous procedures at ...

MUNICH (Reuters) - A new pacemaker from U.S.medical devices group Medtronic Inc is safe to use in MRI scanners, according to initial safety and efficacy data unveiled on Sunday. The SureScan device is ...

Medtronic Inc. said Monday that the Food and Drug Administration approved its application to conduct a clinical trial in the United States evaluating a new pacemaker that is compatible with MRI scans.