Boston Scientific announced multiple recalls but has said its battery issues were limited. One internal test in 2025 found ...

For years, Boston Scientific's factory tests revealed pacemaker batteries that were failing unexpectedly, according to ...

But taken together, the requests formed a pattern — one that, in retrospect, traced a regulatory trail that would later reveal unexpectedly high pacemaker battery failure rates, jeopardizing the lives ...

Due to advances in medical technology, especially in the last few decades, pacemakers are now better than before. While they aren’t all perfect, they can help seniors during life-threatening moments.

Here are five things to know. 1. For the study, research exposed 119 people with pacemakers to electric and magnetic fields with frequencies of 50 to 60 hertz — similar to levels used by power grids.