News tagged with pacemakers
Energy-harvesting rubber sheets could power pacemakers, mobile phones
Power-generating rubber films developed by Princeton University engineers could harness natural body movements such as breathing and walking to power pacemakers, mobile phones and other electronic devices.
Jan 27, 2010 |
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Tiny turbine in human artery harvests energy from blood flow
(PhysOrg.com) -- A small turbine located inside a millimeters-wide human artery could harvest enough energy from blood flow to power implanted medical devices, such as pacemakers and drug-delivery pumps. The ...
May 20, 2011 |
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Mini generators make energy from random ambient vibrations
Tiny generators developed at the University of Michigan could produce enough electricity from random, ambient vibrations to power a wristwatch, pacemaker or wireless sensor.
Mar 23, 2010 |
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A pacemaker for your brain
By stimulating certain areas of the brain, scientists can alleviate the effects of disorders such as depression or Parkinson's disease. That's the good news. But because controlling that stimulation currently lacks precision, ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jun 28, 2010 |
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Researchers create first human heart cells that can be paced with light
In a compact lab space at Stanford University, Oscar Abilez, MD, trains a microscope on a small collection of cells in a petri dish. A video recorder projects what the microscope sees on a nearby monitor. The cells in the ...
Sep 20, 2011 |
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Shine a light instead of changing the battery
(PhysOrg.com) -- Pacemakers and other implanted medical devices require electric current to operate. Changing the battery requires an additional operation, which is an added stress on the patient. A Japanese team led by Eijiro ...
Dec 01, 2011 |
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Scientists reveal how neuronal activity is timed in brain's memory-making circuits
Theta oscillations are a type of prominent brain rhythm that orchestrates neuronal activity in the hippocampus, a brain area critical for the formation of new memories. For several decades these oscillations were believed ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
May 29, 2009 |
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After insulin pump hacking, lawmakers seek review
(AP) -- Two lawmakers are requesting a review of the government's security standards for wireless medical devices after a diabetic discovered how to remotely reprogram his and other people's insulin pumps.
Aug 20, 2011 |
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FDA researchers identify new MRI safety risk for patients with pacemakers
FDA researchers have found that certain cardiac pacemakers may inadequately stimulate a patient's heart while undergoing a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan due to the magnetic pulses mixing with the electronic pulses ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Dec 15, 2009 |
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Dementia drugs may put some patients at risk, study shows
Side effects associated with several commonly-prescribed dementia drugs may be putting elderly Canadians at risk, says Queen's University Geriatrics professor Sudeep Gill.
Medicine & Health / Medications
May 27, 2009 |
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Carbon monoxide reverses diabetic gastric problem in mice
Mayo Clinic researchers have shown that very low doses of inhaled carbon monoxide in diabetic mice reverses the condition known as gastroparesis or delayed stomach emptying, a common and painful complication for many diabetic ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jun 01, 2009 |
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New therapy gives hope for very severe depression
Thanks to a new method there is a reason for hope for patients with very severe depression. German physicians at the University Clinics of Bonn and Cologne have treated ten patients with deep brain stimulation. ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 02, 2009 |
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Most eligible patients miss out on cardiac resynchronization therapy for heart failure
Most patients with heart failure likely to benefit from a pacemaker including the capacity for cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) do not receive such an implantable device, reports a national study in the December 2009 ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Dec 11, 2009 |
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Protecting medical implants from attack
Millions of Americans have implantable medical devices, from pacemakers and defibrillators to brain stimulators and drug pumps; worldwide, 300,000 more people receive them every year. Most such devices have ...
Jun 13, 2011 |
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Cobblestones fool innate immunity
Coating the surface of an implant such as a new hip or pacemaker with nanosized metallic particles reduces the risk of rejection, and researchers at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, can now explain why: they fool the ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Nov 29, 2011 |
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