http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. During a five-hour surgery last October at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Kathy Sanford became the first Alzheimer's patient in the United States to have a pacemaker implanted in her brain. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-ohio-state-implants-brain-pacemaker.html Alzheimer's disease & dementia Wed, 23 Jan 2013 14:56:43 EST news278175392 Great care should be taken when performing magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in patients with a cardiac pacemaker. Henning Bovenschulte and his co-authors review recent findings in the latest issue of Deutsches Ärzteblatt International (Dtsch Arztebl Int 2012; 109[15]: 270-5). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-magnetic-resonance-imaging-side-effects.html Other Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:16:12 EST news255003358