Collaborate Disseminate
If you’ve ever had a medical team investigating cardiac issues, you’ve probably had a bunch of electrodes stuck all over your chest and been hooked up to an electrocardiogram. This …read more Continue reading How Pulse Oximetry Figures Out Your Blood Oxygen Levels
As the most important muscle in our body, any issues with our heart are considered critical and reason for replacement with a donor heart. Unfortunately donor hearts are rather rare, …read more Continue reading Patching Up Failing Hearts With Engineered Muscle Tissue
Scarring of heart tissue can be slowed but not stopped, and can lead to heart failure. But a new study has shown that an existing immunotherapy could stop scar tissue formation after heart attacks.Continue ReadingCategory: Heart Disease, Illnesses and … Continue reading Immunotherapy prevents heart attacks progressing to heart failure
A new injectable, temporary pacemaker could help correct a heart arrhythmia in an emergency. This nanoparticle gel can regulate the heart’s electrical signals for up to five days before dissolving harmlessly in the body.Continue ReadingCategory: Medica… Continue reading Injectable pacemaker regulates heartbeat for 5 days then dissolves
For babies born with a certain heart defect, implantation of a “shunt” is essential to their survival. A new type of shunt can be expanded using light, potentially eliminating the need for more heart surgeries that are currently needed to swap in large… Continue reading Light-activated implant could spare babies from multiple heart surgeries
A new medical 3D-printing method has been developed that takes its cues from the way tangles of worms interact in nature. The resultant material produced could patch up leaky heart parts or stabilize spinal discs, among other applications.Continue Read… Continue reading Worm blob inspires creation of internal medical Band-Aid
For the first time, the fully mechanical heart made by BiVACOR, which uses the same technology as high-speed rail lines, has been implanted inside a human being. The feat marks a major step in keeping people alive as they wait for heart transplants.Con… Continue reading Maglev titanium heart now whirs inside the chest of a live patient
It turns out that blasting people with shockwaves during open-heart surgery is a really good idea. That’s what researchers found who used the technique to reactivate heart cells and improve the post-op lives of patients in a groundbreaking study.Contin… Continue reading Shockwave-shooting ‘space hairdryer’ regrows heart tissue in patients
Let’s be honest: long-haul flights are horrible. Screaming babies, other passengers moving about, and meal trolleys rolling up and down the aisles make sleep difficult, if not impossible. For many passengers, the only relief they have on a long-haul fl… Continue reading Inflight drinks on long-haul flights increase risk to heart health
AF, or AFib, and its close medical cousin, atrial flutter, are associated with complications such as stroke, heart failure, and heart attack. While there’s an understandable focus on treating these conditions to prevent acute complications, less resear… Continue reading Only half of atrial fibrillation patients survive another 10 years