Your heart’s job is to keep your pulse steady to pump blood throughout your body. Sometimes your heart rate is slower when you’re relaxing, and sometimes it’s faster when you’re exercising or stressed ...

That’s a pacemaker – the world’s smallest in fact, which has just been revealed in a new study. Cardiac pacemakers are up there with some of the most impressive innovations in modern medicine.

Heart patients getting a new pacemaker may want to have their old device refurbished, to benefit another patient. Originally published on healthday.com, part of the BLOX Digital Content Exchange.

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The 73-year-old Prime Minister of Israel had a cardiac monitor places just about a week prior. That monitor showed signs of an atrioventricular block.