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Drone Delivery of a Defibrillator

June 28, 2022 | | Posted in Newsletter

This drone responds to heart attack patients
“In January, while he was out shoveling snow in Trollhättan, Sweden, a man was [MORE]

Large Smartwatch Trial in China Supports Afib Monitoring

June 21, 2022 | | Posted in Newsletter

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

Wearables after COVID-19 Has Passed

March 23, 2021 | | Posted in Newsletter

Covid 19 – still a concern for the heart
While the death toll from COVID-19 keeps rising, this piece from last [MORE]

Injectable Hydrogel to Repair Heart Damage

January 28, 2020 | | Posted in Newsletter

Cardiac tissue repair with injected gel
“Ventrix, a spin-off company of the University of California San Diego, has developed a special [MORE]

Spit Analysis for Heart Attack Risk

December 24, 2019 | | Posted in Newsletter

Device to analyze spit to diagnose risk of heart disease
Australian scientists have developed a device that assesses biomarkers in spit [MORE]

A Patch that Keeps a Broken Heart Beating

July 9, 2019 | | Posted in Newsletter

Heart nanoscaffold
“[Brown University] investigators developed computational models of hearts beating and evaluated what kind of biomaterial patch would provide sufficient [MORE]

Metabolite Test for Blocked Arteries

March 19, 2019 | | Posted in Newsletter

Treadmill exercise
Cardiologists at Duke University carried out studies of peoples’ blood one hour before a treadmill stress test and two [MORE]

A “Smart Stent” that Monitors Arterial Conditions

September 4, 2018 | | Posted in Newsletter

UBC smart stent
Electrical and computer engineers at the University of British Columbia have created “the first angioplasty-ready smart stent.”  “[They] modified [MORE]

Patch Delivers Drugs Directly to Heart

August 28, 2018 | | Posted in Newsletter

Heart patch drug delivery
In order to get drugs, proteins or stem cells to the heart after an infarction, a collaboration [MORE]

Measuring Cardiac Troponin in 10 minutes

June 14, 2016 | | Posted in Newsletter

Philips Minicare I-20
Immediately after a heart attack, the heart muscle floods a protein, cardiac troponin I, into the blood stream [MORE]

Clot-Busting with Magnetic Nanoparticles

April 21, 2015 | | Posted in Newsletter

Iron Oxide Core for tPA
When the USFDA first approved recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (aka, “clot buster”) in 1996, it came [MORE]

Largest Stem Trial for Heart Attack Repair Begins

April 29, 2014 | | Posted in Newsletter

Delivering Stem Cells to Heart Attack Victims
The largest stem cell project to date has begun with 19 collaborating institutions in [MORE]

Microparticles to Repair Heart Damage

March 11, 2014 | | Posted in Newsletter

TECH-DIAGRAM-COUR
Using microparticles made of biodegradable polyglycolic acid, which has an electrical affinity for inflammatory monocytes, c (Elmhurst, IL) Cour Pharmacetical [MORE]

Personalized Diagnostic for Salt Sensitivity

March 19, 2013 | | Posted in Newsletter

Salt sensitivity is implicated in the deadliest human diseases: stroke, kidney failure, heart attack. About a third of all people [MORE]