Tag: Heart

Newborns’ hearing can be tested using a smartphone. If a congenital heart defect is detected then a pacemaker is necessary. After around a week, the heart usually beats independently. To avoid surgical procedures, a US research team has built on an earlier project to develop a miniature pacemaker. Almost as small as a sesame seed, it can be injected...

Magnetic fields strengthen weakened skeletal muscles. Having a heart attack destroys countless heart muscle cells, which can ultimately lead to heart failure. But as a Dutch research team recently discovered, heart repair may one day be possible. The team took its inspiration from the zebrafish, which, unlike humans, is able to restore its damaged heart’s cells within two months....

The right scaffold can improve deteriorating eyesight. If a heart valve stops working, it’s usually replaced. One made from animal tissue might only last a decade. Metal varieties require patients to take medication all their lives. But, according to an English research team, there is another way. Banking on the body’s powers of regeneration, the team has developed a...

A headband can monitor hallucinations, while skin cancer can be detected by cell phone. What about the most common cause of heart disease and coronary artery aneurysms in 1-5 year-olds? Cue a 17-year-old female student from San Diego who has developed a new method for identifying Kawasaki Disease. Since the five symptoms - high fever, red tongue, body rash and...

Lip movements can be translated into text by smartphone. And as a research team from Taiwan recently discovered, smartphone video recordings can help analyse messages contained in our blood flow. Carotid arteries clogged up by fatty deposits restrict blood flow to the brain, potentially leading to strokes. Such reduced moving patterns, although just below the skin, cannot be detected...

Anomalies in data network traffic can be heard as disharmony. In healthy people respiration and heartbeat are in harmony. A Welsh biotech startup is seeking to restore this natural symmetry in the event of heart failure. Their new device imitates and recognises the body’s signals and uses the respiratory cycle to control patients’ cardiac rhythm. In pre-clinical trials, their...