POSTS TAGGED AS Cardiology

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]

Noninvasive Device to Detect Congestive Heart Failure

Three years ago, researchers in Israel developed a novel technique that relies on electrical impedance to image internal organs.  Some [MORE]