Heart problems are nothing new. Humans have been fascinated by electrocardiography since the era of Hippocrates (via St. Luke's Hospital Cardiology Department). With each passing century, medicine's ...

Your heart runs on electricity! Discover how tiny sparks keep it beating — and how Buffalo inventor Wilson Greatbatch’s “happy accident” led to the pacemaker, a life-saving device that changed ...

Wilson Greatbatch ’50, inventor of the implantable cardiac pacemaker, died Wednesday night in Buffalo, N.Y., at the age of 92. Since its first use in 1960, the pacemaker has allowed people with heart ...

A prolific inventor who died last week in upstate New York at the age of 92, Wilson Greatbatch is credited with more than 325 patents, including coming up with the first practical implantable ...

WNY Philanthropist and Wife of Prominent Inventor. January 30, 2011, Eleanor Fay Greatbatch; wife of implantable pacemaker inventor Wilson Greatbatch, died in Oxford Village at Canterbury Woods, ...

Wilson Greatbatch, whose invention of the implantable cardiac pacemaker has kept millions of hearts beating in rhythm, died Tuesday in suburban Buffalo, N.Y. He was 92. Sign up to get the most recent ...

Wilson Greatbatch Technologies, the Clarence medical device maker that was founded 35 years ago by pacemaker inventor Wilson Greatbatch, wants to change its name to Greatbatch Inc. The name change, ...