"Wireless" pacemaker brings new hope for heart failure patients

Frances Rodgers used to get winded just walking up a short flight of stairs.“I’d stop, take a few breaths and then I was all right to go on a bit,” she said.The 70-year-old, who suffered heart failure, said her pacemaker was part of the problem. She had three surgeries to replace the leads, or wires, attached to her 16-year-old device, but her body kept rejecting them.About 30 percent of people with pacemakers have trouble with their devices, which experts say is often due to t