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A team of researchers led by Northwestern University and the University of Texas at Austin (UT) have developed a novel graphene heart implant that’s about the thickness of a strand of hair and monitors and corrects abnormal heart rhythms using light.Co… Continue reading Implantable graphene e-tattoo uses light to monitor, correct arrhythmias
A new device designed to accurately and quickly sense whether a cardiac arrest patient also has a heart valve blockage that needs urgent treatment is now undergoing trials in Seattle.Continue ReadingCategory: Medical, ScienceTags: University of Washing… Continue reading New wrist sensor could save heart attack patients critical time in ER
A new study from researchers at University College London examined 83,000 healthy 50 to 70 year olds who had taken a 15-second ECG “comparable to the kind carried out using smart watches and phone devices.” People whose readings exhibited an extra beat… Continue reading More evidence that smartwatches can detect and predict heart issues
Heart failure is a global health problem commonly complicated by sleep apnea, a co-morbidity that further reduces a person’s lifespan. A promising new drug has been developed that could treat heart failure and sleep apnea by targeting the nervous activ… Continue reading New drug offers “two-for-one” treatment of heart failure, sleep apnea
Light therapy has shown promise in everything from helping burn wounds heal faster to killing tumors and helping guide antibodies to their cancerous targets. Now, the next in its beam looks to be the heart.Continue ReadingCategory: Medical, ScienceTags… Continue reading Light therapy could slow heart aging and fend off deadly disease
More than six million Americans suffer from chronic heart failure, a disease that progressively weakens the heart’s muscle and destroys its ability to pump enough oxygen and blood to other organs.Continue ReadingCategory: Medical, ScienceTags: Heart Fa… Continue reading Strong signs for cell therapy in the fight against heart failure
Organ transplants can save lives, but unfortunately organs don’t last long in storage. Now scientists have demonstrated that an existing drug can reprogram donor hearts to last much longer outside the body, and reduce their risk of failure after transp… Continue reading Drug reprograms donor hearts for longer storage and safer transplants
If someone is at risk of heart failure, it’s important to monitor their vital signs on an ongoing basis. An experimental new wearable is designed to do exactly that, and it takes the form of an electronically endowed belt.Continue ReadingCategory: Medi… Continue reading “Smart” vitals-monitoring belt designed to warn of heart failure
While modern pacemakers have proven an invaluable and lifesaving medical tool, the way they regulate the pace of the heart differs from the varying beat of the organ in a healthy individual. Scientists see great potential in pacemaking technology that … Continue reading “Revolutionary” pacemaker tackles heart failure by listening to the lungs
Scientists at the Washington University School of Medicine have made an intriguing discovery that could see radiation therapy become a less invasive treatment for heart arrhythmia. The technique seems to activate the heart cells to revert to a younger … Continue reading Radiation to the heart corrects arrhythmia by reactivating younger state