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Wireless pacemakers could soon be standard

The first implantation of a wireless pacemaker in the U.S. took place less than a year ago, but cardiologists and patients alike already seem sold on the technology. "I truly believe the wireless

First or not, wireless pacemaker heralds a revolution in remote monitoring

Although we take exception to the claim that a wireless pacemaker implanted in a New York patient last month was the first of its kind in the world, CNN reports that the surgeon who performed that

NY patient gets wireless pacemaker, but is it a U.S. first?

Surgeons at St. Francis Hospital in Roslyn, NY supposedly performed the first U.S. implantation of a pacemaker linked to a wireless home monitoring system, allowing the patient's physician to check