According to cardiologist Christopher Davis, Gene Hackman's pacemaker would have alerted his physician if the last detected event on Feb. 17 was "urgent." ...

A new, tiny pacemaker — smaller than a grain of rice — developed at Northwestern University near Chicago could play a sizeable role in the future of medicine, according to the engineers who ...

Developed by engineers from Northwestern University, the pacemaker is the size of a grain of rice and could help save babies born with heart defects.

Gene Hackman's pacemaker registered no activity after February 17.

Northwestern engineers unveil a rice-sized pacemaker for newborns, injectable via syringe and activated by light—no surgery needed, fully dissolvable.