The goal is to help the littlest heart patients, babies born with congenital heart defects who have surgery and need a temporary pacemaker.

The new device is smaller than a grain of rice and gets absorbed by the patient’s body when it’s no longer needed, ...

The tiny device developed by Professors John Rogers, Igor Efimov, and Yonggang Huang can be inserted with a syringe, and then dissolve after it’s no longer needed.

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

The device is smaller than a grain of rice — and is suited particularly to help newborn babies with congenital heart defects.

The world’s tiniest pacemaker - smaller than a grain of rice - could help save babies born with heart defects, say scientists ...

Born at just 8 ounces, Bilal spent his first year defying the odds in the NICU—now, he’s going home to join his four siblings ...

NICU staff members Michele Carrier, left, and Anitha Firtasa, center, hold the twin sons of Scott and Megan Davidson during ...

The five babies were delivered at the Mother Baby Center, a collaboration between Allina Health and Children's Minnesota.

The birth of quintuplets is already a rare event, but imagine the smallest of the five weighing just 8 ounces. After an ...

A baby, said to be the second-smallest in the world when he was born at only 8 ounces, has finally made it home.

Born at the Mother Baby Center ... "Eight ounces would make Bilal the second smallest baby in the world described in the ...