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I’ve been living with a pacemaker since I was 19. Here’s what I’ve learned about life, technology, and heartbeats

October 15, 2025 11:25 am

'A small box inside your chest,' they said. I wondered how small. Fifty years and several replacements later, I have answers

'The pacemaker paces my heart to beat at a normal rate': Miss World 2021 runner-up Shree Saini on her heart ailment

October 25, 2022 1:29 pm

Pacemakers are usually given to those who have lived a long life and now their heart needs an extra assistance. For me, I was born with a heart defect," Shree, 26, wrote.

Battery-less pacemaker powered by heartbeats developed

February 22, 2019 9:57 pm

Since surgery to replace the battery can lead to complications, including infection and bleeding, various researchers have tried to build pacemakers that use the natural energy of heartbeats as an alternative energy source.

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New device harvests heart's energy to power life-saving implants

February 05, 2019 10:24 pm

Millions of people rely on pacemakers, defibrillators and other live-saving implantable devices powered by batteries that need to be replaced every five to 10 years.

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Novel pacemakers can be powered with light

December 14, 2018 7:38 pm

They started with one of their own designs previously used to stimulate neurons, but made the mesh thinner to easily wrap around the heart and strewed tiny nanowires across its surface to attach to cardiac cells.

Smartphone-sized device to monitor your pacemaker at home

March 20, 2016 3:03 pm

The device provides fully automatic transmission of vital information from a patient's cardiac implant to their physician.

Soon, battery-free pacemakers powered by your heart

November 02, 2015 1:59 pm

The advancement is based upon a system that converts vibrational energy — created inside the chest by each heartbeat — into electricity to power the pacemaker.