Sixty-seven years ago on Halloween, a rolling power outage wreaked havoc across the Twin Cities and at the University of Minnesota hospital, where cardiac patients were relying on electrical ...

Seymour Furman, who died Monday at 74, was a surgeon who, in the late 1950s, developed the first pacemaker that stimulated the heart from within, using tiny jolts of electricity. It was a major ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: Do people with pacemakers need to be concerned about wireless devices? -- B.L. ANSWER: In most cases, there is very little risk to a pacemaker from wireless devices. However, there are ...