POSTS TAGGED AS heart attack

Heart Attack Sensor

AngelMed Guardian Heart Attack Sensor
Angel Medical Systems (Shrewsbury, NJ) has developed a two part cardiac monitor that can detect [MORE]

Wearable Defibrillator

LifeVest Wearable Defibrillator
It has now been three years since Zoll (Pittsburgh, PA) introduced the first wearable defibrillator, and this [MORE]

Twenty-Eight SNPs of Hypertension

In a European consortium’s study of hypertension, initially involving 70k people, with 133k more for validation, researchers identified 28 [MORE]

Stem Cells from Fat for Heart Repair

Cytori Celution
There may be one bright light in these obese times: fat contains about 200 times more progenitor cells [MORE]

Handheld Device for Detecting Heart Attack

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

Stem Cells for Heart Repair, World’s First

In experimental animals, a team of nanotechnology engineers and heart surgeons in Taiwan have used hematopoietic stem cells and [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]