Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Electrocardiograms, or ECGs, record the electrical activity of your heart. Randy Faris/The Image Bank via Getty Images Your ...

Pacemakers and defibrillators have a growing use in pediatrics and in patients with congenital heart disease, but they present unique problems and implications for their implantation and follow-up.

BOSTON - Could your fitness tracker be putting your health at risk? Fitness and wellness trackers in the form of smart watches, rings, and scales that allow consumers to monitor their own heart rates, ...

Closed-chest electric defibrillators -- i.e. the normal defibrillators that you usually see on TV -- have been around for decades. They can be effective at restoring normal heart rhythm, but come at a ...

Heart problems are nothing new. Humans have been fascinated by electrocardiography since the era of Hippocrates (via St. Luke's Hospital Cardiology Department). With each passing century, medicine's ...

For congestive heart failure patient Chet Consolazione even a short walk around his Petaluma garden would have been a challenge a year ago. "I'd sit down on the floor and rest. Then I'd go back to bed ...

Headphones used with MP3 digital music players like the iPod may interfere with heart pacemakers and implantable defibrillators, U.S. researchers said Sunday. The MP3 players themselves posed no ...

There are unique technical issues that must be considered with the implantation of devices in small patients and those with CHD. Although most centers report low complication rates of complications in ...