Heart Patch Pulses Like the Real Thing - Study
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Pulsing transplanted heart cells with electrical current helps them grow into mature cardiac cells, bringing doctors closer to a grow-your-own heart patch, US researchers said on Tuesday.
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Doctors are to trial a new type of heart pump to help people with heart failure.
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Scientists develop a patch which can inject medicines painlessly through the skin.
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An artificial heart does an effective job of keeping heart-transplant candidates alive until -- and even after -- a donor organ becomes available, cardiologists report.
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The sickest heart patients fare better when they are outfitted with an artificial device and tethered to a dishwasher-size power source while waiting for a heart transplant, says a study published today in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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CAMBRIDGE Dec 14, 2004 - Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have used rat cells to grow dime-sized swatches of heart tissue that twitch like a beating heart when an electrical current passes through.
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A new method of diagnosing heart disease takes only seconds to conduct, but critics say the technique is ripe for overuse.
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When my wife was in labor in 1991, the doctor attached an electronic fetal monitor to her belly to record her contractions and the baby's heart rate. I remember being so transfixed by the monitor that I forgot about my wife. At one point, she said, "Wow, it hurts." But because the graph on the...
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A mesh stocking pulled up over the wide bottom of a weak heart can help it pump better and even shrink back to a more normal size, according to a study described
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Scientists have identified a cardiac stem cell that could be the basis for new heart therapies
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Pioneering research is to test if stem cells can repair heart muscle damaged by a heart attack.
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Infusing patients with bone marrow cells can reinvigorate their dying hearts and grow tiny new arteries and heart muscle tissue, a treatment that may one
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An American scientific study shows that artificial hearts can keep heart-transplant candidates alive before the donor organ is available and it also helps prolong their life after transplant.
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A study finds a polyester mesh stocking pulled up over the wide bottom of a weak heart can help it pump better and even shrink back to a more normal size.
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Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States are close to mending broken hearts. They have managed to create a small swatch of heart tissue that displays many of the hallmarks
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NEW ORLEANS -- A polyester mesh stocking pulled up over the wide bottom of a weak heart can help it pump better and even shrink back to a more normal size, a study found.
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Pulsing transplanted heart cells with electrical current helps them grow into mature cardiac cells, bringing doctors closer to a grow-your-own heart patch, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.