Tag: heart disease
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Smartphone App, Device Shown to Measure Blood Pressure
A smartphone-based system and app were shown in a pilot study with human subjects to measure a person’s blood pressure with about the same accuracy as some cuff devices normally used to gauge blood pressure.
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Coalition Standardizes Chronic Kidney Disease Tests
A group of medical lab companies, medical centers, and not-for-profit groups developed standardized testing protocols for chronic kidney disease, which participants expect will help more people diagnose the condition earlier.
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Cardiac Augmented-Reality Hologram System in Development
A start-up company spun-off from Washington University in St. Louis was awarded a grant to advance an augmented reality system that displays an interactive hologram of a patient’s heart, to simplify cardiac procedures.
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NIH Funding Immune-Friendly Synthetic Vascular Grafts
A bioengineering lab is receiving a National Institutes of Health grant to advance development of more tolerable synthetic veins and arteries implanted in heart bypass patients.
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Small Business Grant Advances Drug Safety Test System
An award from National Institutes of Health is advancing a technology for testing the safety of drugs with heart muscle cells derived from stem cells before the drugs are tested on humans.
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Stem Cell Patches Shown to Treat Heart Attack Damage
Human heart muscle patches made from stem cells helped fix damage and improve heart functions in tests with pigs induced with heart attacks.
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FDA Fast-Tracks Heart Failure Gene Therapy
A biotechnology company developing transfers of healthy genes to treat chronic diseases is receiving an accelerated review of its heart failure therapy from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
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FDA Clears Smart Watch EKG Device
The Food and Drug Administration approved an electrocardiogram, or EKG device, designed to work with Apple smart watches, according to AliveCor, developer of the device.
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RNA Injections Shown to Rebuild Damaged Heart Muscle
Engineers and medical researchers developed a technique to deliver genetic material into damaged heart muscle that in lab mice regrows heart cells.
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Blood-Thinning Drugs Linked with Lower Dementia Risk
People with irregular heart rhythms given anti-coagulation drugs to reduce their risk of stroke were also less likely to develop dementia than their counterparts not receiving blood-thinners.