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 ...

Pacemakers are life saving, but they can also prevent you from getting a crucial MRI scan when you need it. But now manufacturers are making models that are more MRI friendly. For Joyce Schwartz an ...

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 ...

Biotronik is looking to get the FDA's approval for a line of MRI-safe pacemakers--courtesy of Biotronik The FDA approved a clinical trial of Biotronik's proMRI pacemaker, a device designed to operate ...

In 1997, FDA published a draft document recommending that individuals with implanted pacemakers should not enter magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) procedure rooms or come within the 5-G line around the ...

Hospitals across the country have been cranking out news releases this week about patients who are among the first to receive a new MRI-safe pacemaker from Medtronic. But Medicare patients with the ...

(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, ...

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 ...

Sometimes state-of-the-art medical technologies clash. More than 2 million Americans depend on pacemakers or defibrillators to keep their hearts beating right. But those lifesaving implants come with ...

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 ...