One initial treatment is a cardioversion, which involves using a defibrillator to deliver an electric shock to the heart to restore rhythm. It’s often successful, but sometimes only temporarily.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. A physician who writes about challenges with navigating healthcare. Pacemakers are not designed or approved to provide real‑time ...

Data from Nancy Guthrie's pacemaker has helped shed light on the events leading up to her kidnapping, but there are significant limits in how much data the devices can collect. Most importantly for ...

Nancy Guthrie’s 2 a.m. pacemaker spike on the day she vanished could mean that the elderly woman was involved in a heart rate-surging struggle with her possible captors, a lead cardiologist speculated ...

R&B star Ray J has shared a sobering update regarding his health, revealing to fans that he may have only months left to live. Following a near-fatal battle with pneumonia earlier this month, the ...

Robert Kowal, MD, remembers vividly the day he was first introduced to the concept of Medtronic’s leadless pacemaker, which went on to become known as Micra. He was a practicing electrophysiologist ...

Dr. Lamas, a contributing Opinion writer, is a pulmonary and critical care physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. One night a few years ago, I watched a young man die over the course of ...

The future of heart health is on showcase here in the Quad Cities. Two medical ‘firsts’ were announced last week. A new tool to treat Atrial fibrillation, or AFib, and the first noted success of a ...