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Chest e-tattoo boasts major improvements in heart monitoring
A new flexible, wearable medical device could provide a major boost in the fight against heart disease, the leading cause of death in the United States.
Apr 26, 2023
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Surgery
Physician describes three advances leading to more lifesaving organ transplants
All too often, people waiting for lifesaving organ transplants cannot get them. One of the biggest challenges is the lack of viable donated organs. Promising medical advances are opening the doors to more transplants and ...
Apr 5, 2023
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Five ways AI promises to transform organ transplants
Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to become a valuable tool for transplant to save more patients' lives. Recent studies have already shown promise in using AI to analyze large sets of data to discover important ...
Mar 21, 2023
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Today's pediatric heart transplantations involve sicker children, but have better outcomes: Study
Researchers who studied more than 300 pediatric patients receiving heart transplants over the past 36 years at the University of Florida have documented how advances in technology, technique, and patient management have improved ...
Feb 22, 2023
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Health informatics
Novel device monitors breathing sounds to predict respiratory failure in ICU patients after extubation
Researchers have developed a novel device that detects abnormal breathing sounds to predict whether an ICU patient is likely to suffer from respiratory complications after removal from a mechanical ventilator, alerting intensive ...
Dec 16, 2022
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Reducing stroke risk in children with severe heart failure
Hospitals across the country are teaming up to improve outcomes in kids who need mechanical heart pumps for congenital heart disease or heart failure.
Jun 23, 2022
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Neuroscience
Migraines may affect outcomes in Takotsubo cardiomyopathy
Patients with Takotsubo cardiomyopathy (TCM), which is typically due to a neurocardiogenic mechanism, with migraine have lower odds of mortality and acute complications compared with TCM patients without migraine, according ...
Apr 5, 2022
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Biomedical technology
Self-powered implantable device stimulates fast bone healing, then disappears without a trace
In 2017, Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers broke his right collarbone in a game against the Minnesota Vikings. Typically, it takes about 12 weeks for a collarbone to fully heal, but by mid-December fans and commentators ...
Jul 6, 2021
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Turning the heat on: A flexible device for localized heat treatment of living tissues
Thermotherapy or heat treatment can help in treating lesions and other tissue injuries. For example, chemotherapy or radiotherapy, when combined with thermotherapy, kills tumorous cells more effectively. Thermotherapy is ...
Jun 9, 2021
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Clot permeability linked to first-attempt success of aspiration thrombectomy
In certain patients suffering a severe ischemic stroke, a mechanical device can be used to remove a clot blocking blood flow to the brain. The minimally invasive procedure either suctions the clot directly out of a large ...
Aug 11, 2020
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