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Beckman Coulter names Cat Jennings president as Danaher Diagnostics targets steadier growth

Beckman Coulter Diagnostics has appointed former Boston Scientific executive Catherine Jennings as president, giving her responsibility for a laboratory platform processing more than one million tests every hour. The leadership change comes as parent Danaher's Diagnostics business returns to stronger underlying growth outside volatile respiratory testing.
A leadless pacemaker is delivered through a catheter during a minimally invasive cardiac procedure, illustrating how next-generation pacing systems are eliminating traditional leads and reshaping cardiac rhythm care. Representative image.
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Leadless pacemakers: How tiny implants inside the heart are challenging cardiac leads

Leadless pacemakers are moving beyond a niche alternative for selected patients. Abbott’s AVEIR DR can pace both the right atrium and right ventricle using two communicating intracardiac devices, while Medtronic is extending battery life and Boston Scientific is developing a wireless pacemaker-defibrillator system. The technology removes the chest pocket and transvenous leads that create important complications in conventional pacing, but retrieval, long-term device accumulation, patient selection and the limits of current pacing modes still stand between leadless systems and wholesale replacement of traditional pacemakers.