Science news articles about 'heart pacemakers'

  • Device blocking stomach nerve signals shows promise in obesity

    ... ." Dr. Camilleri says VBLOC therapy is similar to a heart pacemaker, but instead of stimulating a normal, regular ... impulses between the brain and the stomach and pancreas. A pacemaker continuously monitors the heart and regulates its beating. But the patient ...
  • MP3 player headphones may hinder pacemakers

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Headphones used with MP3 digital music players like the iPod may interfere with heart pacemakers and implantable defibrillators, U.S. researchers said on Sunday.
  • Towards a natural pacemaker

    Artificial heart pacemakers have saved and extended the lives of thousands of people, but they have their shortcomings – such as a fixed pulse ... drugs to influence heart rate and pave the way for new genetic biological pacemakers to be developed ...
  • An electrifying discovery: New material to harvest electricity from body movements

    ... electronic devices like cell phones and heart pacemakers. In a study in ACS' monthly journal ... from the motion of the lungs during breathing and use it to run pacemakers without the need for batteries that must be surgically ...
  • New understanding of the 'flight-or-fight' response

    ... how the body's "flight-or-fight" response is mediated. The study, which may provide new answers to the question of how the heart pacemaker -the sinoatrial (SA) node -is regulated ...
  • New understanding of the 'flight-or-fight' response

    New research helps explain how the body's "flight-or-fight" response is mediated. The study may provide new answers to the question of how the heart pacemaker -- the sinoatrial node -- is regulated.
  • Innovate, create

    ... heart pacemaker. Surgical anesthesia. Facebook. Even breathable chocolate. Harvard’s combination of questing ... at Massachusetts General Hospital in 1846 and the development of the pacemaker by Paul Zoll in the 1950s. President Drew ...
  • Researchers in France and Austria find novel role for calcium channels in pacemaker cell function

    ... theory in determining heart rate. The investigation by the research team compared pacemaker cells in normal ... on the study. Not only Cav1.3 channels are critical to the heart pacemaker cell function, they appear to be important ...
  • Wilson Greatbatch

    ... 92, devised the first practicable implantable heart pacemakers. They have saved thousands of lives and improved many more, and he continually sought to refine them.While ...
  • Cool Future Tech: Heart Pacemaker Powered By The Heart Itself

    ... could mean a new power scheme for cardiac pacemakers. Rather than use batteries, engineering researchers at the University ... through the chest and convert those to electricity to run a pacemaker or an implanted defibrillator. By taking the place of the batteries ...
  • Parkinson's disease brain rhythms detected

    ... of spatial information. Similar to putting a pacemaker inside a heart patient's chest, deep brain ... deliver continuous electrical stimulation. But modern heart pacemakers deliver jolts only when needed. If DBS ...
  • Deep Brain Stimulation shows promise for patients with chronic, treatment resistant Anorexia Nervosa

    ... below the right clavicle, much like a heart pacemaker. Testing of patients was repeated at one, three, and six-month intervals after activation of the pulse generator ...

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