POSTS TAGGED AS Cardiology

Ambulatory Heartbeat-Based Psycho-Mental Strain Monitoring

Authors:  Matthias Weippert 1, Mohit Kumar 2, Annika Rieger 1, Steffi Kreuzfeld 1, Sebastian Neubert 3, Sabine Behrendt 1, [MORE]

Heart Parts from Stem Cells, Sooner Than You Think

Regenerative medicine took a leap when Doris Taylor, at the Univ. of Minnesota, grew a rat’s stem cells into [MORE]

Ultrasound Activated Pacemaker

Startup company, EBR Systems (Sunnyvale, CA) is developing a new generation of pacemakers that rely on ultrasound signaling rather [MORE]

Light-Controlled Pacemaker

Optogenetics (a term that Karl Deisseroth at Stanford coined in 2006) involves a gene transfer from algae to make [MORE]

Low-Power Radio Chip for Body-Area Sensing

Two European companies-Imec (Leuven, Belgium) and Holst Centre (Eindhoven, The Netherlands) have collaborated to create an ultra-low power radio [MORE]

Ultra-Miniature Pacemaker

Most of today’s pacemakers have six to ten years of battery life before they have to be surgically replaced.  [MORE]

Continuous Flow Artificial Heart

NPR recently reported a story about two Texas Heart Institute physicians developing a continuous flow artificial heart-in effect, two [MORE]

Carbon Nanotubes Regenerate Heart Tissue

While regenerative medicine researchers work on growing new hearts from collagen scaffolds and induced pluripotent stem cells, engineers at [MORE]

Automated, Portable Cardio Imaging Device

Panasonic’s “CardioHealth” Station uses ultrasound to produce a high resolution, real time image of a patient’s coronary and carotid [MORE]

Matching Trial Patients to Typical Sufferers

Here’s a quandary: Medicare pays for arterial stenting when patients have stroke symptoms, but not all patients who receive [MORE]

Mapping Heart Activity with a Sensored Catheter

A stretchable array of silicon sensors that detect temperature and electrical activity in the heart could be the catheter [MORE]

Micro-Pacemaker

Research in microelectronics are leading Medtronic to assemble the parts of a heart pacemaker-a circuit board, an oscillator, a [MORE]

How Common Is Good Heart Health? Not Very

Nonsmoking, a BMI below 25, goal level exercise and a good diet, unmedicated cholesterol below 200, BP below 120/80, [MORE]

New Heart Disease Discovered

In 2008, NIH began the Undiagnosed Diseases Program to identify mysterious medical conditions that fit no known diagnosis.  Most [MORE]

Is the Home Defibrillator Market a Bellwether of Home Health in General?

A healthcare marketing research company projects that demand for home defibrillators will grow annually by more than 17% through [MORE]

Handheld Device for Detecting Heart Attack

Early last year, Royal Philips Electronics (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) and bioMérieux (Marcy l’Etoile, France) created a joint venture aimed [MORE]

Celera’s CHD-Risk Diagnostic

On the short arm of Chromosome 6 is a variant of the KIF6 gene (i.e. kinesin-like family protein 6) [MORE]

Two New CPR Devices for Heart Failure

ResQPOD and ResQPump are two new devices now being tested that have shown much improved results for CPR on [MORE]

The Patient Channel

When does a behavioral intervention have the greatest effect?  The Patient Channel supposes that moment is when the patient [MORE]

Medical and Consumer Interface

At this week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas (Jan. 6-9), Dr. David Albert will be demonstrating [MORE]