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Large Smartwatch Trial in China Supports Afib Monitoring

Smartwatch app detects Afib in large Chinese study
“A truly massive screening study in China spanning more than 2.8 million participants [MORE]

Flexible Heart Catheters

Electronic- cardiac catheter
“[R]esearchers [at George Washington and Northwestern Universities] have developed a new type of catheter that conforms well with [MORE]

Insertable Heart Monitor with Bluetooth Capability

Confirm-RX heart monitor
In acquiring St. Jude Medical, Abbott picked up an arrhythmia detecting monitor called “Confirm Rx.”  About the size [MORE]

World’s Smallest Pacemaker

Micra Transcatheter Pacing System
Cardiac surgeons at Southampton General Hospital (UK) used a catheter to thread a pill-sized pacemaker through the [MORE]

A New Kind of “Wearable” Sensor for the Heart

3-D Measure of the Heart
Previously, Tagline has reported on sensored patches that monitor heart function, but this piece is about [MORE]

Regenerating Heart Beat

Heart beat involves a coordinated action potential and calcium wave impulse propagation in different cells.  With that in mind, [MORE]

M2M Heart Monitoring, with AT&T

Wireless Cardiac Monitoring

AT&T and eCardio Diagnostics (Houston, TX) are using machine to machine wireless data transmission for near real [MORE]