The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has given Medtronic (NYSE:MDT) the go-ahead on a clinical trial to test its next generation of MRI pacemaker technology, the Minnesota company announced Monday.

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center said Tuesday that its cardiology team is the first in the Triad to implant the Magnetic Resonance Imaging scan pacing system into a patient. The new ...

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.