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.

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Hospitals across the country have been cranking out news releases this week about patients who are among the first to receive a new MRI-safe pacemaker from Medtronic. But Medicare patients with the ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Medtronic Inc., the world's largest medical device company, said Tuesday it received U.S. approval for the first pacemaker designed to be safely used with MRI scanners. Patients with the ...

Patients with pacemakers now may have a chance to undergo certain types of MRI scans, according to a Worcester Telegram & Gazette report. UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, Mass., and Milford ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — Sometimes state-of-the-art medical technologies clash. More than 2 million Americans depend on pacemakers or defibrillators to keep their hearts beating right. But those lifesaving ...

WASHINGTON, March 16 (Reuters) - A Medtronic Inc study meant to back a proposed MRI-safe pacemaker has several key limitations, U.S. device reviewers said in documents released on Tuesday. Sign up ...

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 ...

Medtronic has secured a new approval from the FDA that expands the flexibility of its pacemaker hardware, allowing it to tap into the heart’s natural electrical signals. Known as conduction system ...

NEW YORK — Medtronic said Monday that it was cleared to market a heart defibrillator implant that can be safely used in an MRI scanner. Medtronic’s Evera SureScan is designated “MR conditional,” which ...