More than 100,000 UK patients must have their pacemaker replaced or its software updated after some of the devices were found to run out of battery years early. Manufacturer Boston Scientific has ...

Needing a permanent pacemaker after surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) was linked to mortality in Swedish registry data. Such risk was not apparent in the first few years: all-cause mortality ...

Editor's Note: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration classified Guidant's action as a class 1 recall on July 22, 2005. July 19, 2005 — Guidant Corp. has warned healthcare professionals and consumers ...

Boston Scientific ($BSX) advised physicians about a particular pacemaker in 2005--but then declined to pay the bills for those surgeries that it subsequently received ...