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by Bruce Brown | February 8, 2018 | General News, Medical
Researchers and scientists worldwide tackle Alzheimer’s Disease’s high threat status for aging adults. The gradually debilitating disease is the sixth leading cause of death in the U.S.; it kills more than breast cancer and prostate cancer combined....
by Bruce Brown | June 9, 2017 | General News, Medical
Implanted pacemakers have helped millions of people since Wilson Greatbatch accidentally invented them in the 1950s while building a device to record the sounds of a working heart. At that time heart pacemakers were huge external devices and often shocked...
by Alfred Poor | May 24, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
Pacemaker implants save many lives every year, but they have one inherent limitation. They run on electricity provided by a lithium coin battery which contains toxic materials and has to be changed every few years. Researchers are finding ways to harvest energy from...
by Alfred Poor | December 15, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News, Medical
Digital electronic technology has made modern medical miracles possible. We now have “smart” connected devices that can be implanted inside our bodies to provide tracking and treatment for a variety of chronic conditions and diseases. But this technology...
by Bruce Brown | April 11, 2016 | General News, Medical
According to the American Heart Association, there are about 3 million pacemakers in use in the world with approximately 600,000 more implanted each year. Typical pacemakers are about the size of a large watch face or three stacked poker chips. They have two wire...
