Newsletter tagged with 'Cardiology'
Convenient Biosensors for ECG and EEG Monitoring
With both electrocardiograms and electroencephalograms, patients have to have electrodes “stuck” on their skin to get good signals. Bioengineers [MORE]
Growing Heart Tissue in China
Because drugs can only slow the pace of heart failure and also because transplantable hearts are in short supply, [MORE]
Shock Waves to Grow New Blood Vessels in the Heart
Cardiologists at the Mayo Clinic aren’t sure why acoustic waves initiate a wound-healing process, but nevertheless they are testing [MORE]
LifeWatch’s “Teleclinic”
Three to five percent of Americans over age 65 have atrial fibrillation (2.2 million people) and some of them [MORE]
Huge Market Growth in Detecting AAA and PAD
Driven by stents in treating abdominal aortic aneurysms and peripheral arterial disease, market watchers are predicting business for detecting and [MORE]
“Nanomembrane Transistors”
Prior to ablating tissue to stop arterial fibrillation, a heart surgeon has to locate the area of the heart that [MORE]
iPSC’s for Drug Testing
Cellular Dynamics International (Madison, WI) has begun shipping commercial induced-pluripotent stem cells called “iCell cadiomyocytes” which apparently are being [MORE]
A Quarter of Heart Failure Patients Readmitted to Hospitals
Telemedicine solutions that minimize hospital readmissions for heart failure have a pretty big target to hit. One quarter of [MORE]
Magnesium-Based Mini Medical Devices
19th century English dentist Charles Stent, who invented a dental impression compound, could never have imagined he would be [MORE]
First Robot-Assisted Endoscopic Aortic Value Replacement
ATS Medical, Inc. (Minneapolis, MN) recently announced that its highly pliable aortic valve replacement had been used with the [MORE]
Dr. John Simpson-Angioplasty Pioneer
German physician Andreas Gruentzig invented balloon angioplasty in 1977, but University of Texas physician and bioengineer John Simpson developed the [MORE]
Biomarker Test for Heart Attack
In acquiring BRAHMS (Hennigsdorf, Germany) last October, Thermo Fisher Scientific (Waltham, MA) took over marketing of BRAHMS’s blood biomarker [MORE]
Wireless Health Devices
At a meeting this fall, California cardiologist Eric Topol, who is director of the Scripps Translational Science Institute (San Diego) [MORE]
Optical System to Image Electrical and Metabolic Activity of the Heart
Researchers at Vanderbilt University have developed a two-camera system, used during surgery, to visualize a heart’s electrical activity and, [MORE]
Cleveland Clinic’s Top 10 Innovations for 2010
At Number 1: A new non-surgical, removable hearing and communication device designed to imperceptibly transmit sound via the teeth to [MORE]
Home Monitoring CHF
In Italy, doctors still make house calls; indeed, the Giovanni Battista Hospital in Torino has a Geriatric Home Hospitalization Service [MORE]
Detecting Heart Disease in Women
Women often have different indicators of cardiovascular disease than men-e.g. greater microvascular deterioration, when their main coronary arteries are in [MORE]
WiFi pacemaker
A few of the 600,000 people around the world who will receive implanted pacemakers this year can choose a wireless [MORE]
Heart Patch
In an experiment that demonstrates reality is stranger than fiction, Israeli researchers placed an engineered scaffolding, containing myocytes, in rats’ [MORE]
Heart Patch
In an experiment that demonstrates reality is stranger than fiction, Israeli researchers placed an engineered scaffolding, containing myocytes, in rats’ [MORE]