Medtronic’s Micra pacemakers are one-tenth the size of what was previously out there. How the medtech giant did it provides lessons for anyone looking to shrink an implantable device. It was an all-hands-on-deck effort that consumed Medtronic in the early 2010s: the in-house creation of a pacemaker small enough to go inside the heart via…

The FDA has labeled a Medtronic (NYSE:MDT) HeartWare HVAD system battery charger as Class I — it’s most serious level. A notice out March 9 from the FDA said that the Fridley, Minn.-based medtech giant recalled 5,489 total battery charger devices due to the potential for an HVAD system user to mistakenly insert the charger’s AC […]

A problem with the batteries in certain pacemakers made by Medtronic (NYSE:MDT) led to at least one death and one injury, the FDA said today. The issue, which affects the Azure and Astra pacemakers and Percepta, Serena and Solara cardiac resynchronization therapy pacemakers, occurs when a ceramic capacitor cracks internally due to thermal-mechanical stress during […]