An implantable device that blocks a stomach nerve has shown promise in treating obesity in a less invasive way than traditional surgery.
... monitoring system that works when they lie on a pillow containing an antenna that interacts with the implanted device to get readings on heart and lung pressures. Northwestern Memorial has implanted ...
... Michael Cima, MIT professor of materials science and engineering, who has developed the first implantable device that can do just that.
Cima and his colleagues recently reported that their device ...
... the chemotherapy agent Doxorubicin in a sustained and consistent manner -- a requirement of any implanted device for localized chemotherapy. The results of the study are published online today (Oct. ...
... pumping chamber of the heart. Northwestern Memorial physicians recently implanted the first study participant with the device; the individual is the sixth person in the United States to undergo the ...
... designing membranes that would allow dialysis to be miniaturized into implantable devices, freeing kidney failure patients ... technology in his talk, "MEMS for Implantable Medical Devices," at 4:40 p.m. ...
... 10 gauss at the site of the pacemaker or defibrillator has the potential to interact with the implantable device. The researchers found that some of the headphones had field strengths as high as 200 ...
... 's proteins from building up on sensors and preventing them from working properly. And any implanted device also needs to avoid provoking an inflammatory response from the body that would result in ...
... IHM for heart failure. The IHM is a surgically implanted device that continuously records data on heart ... study, DHF patients who received the IHM device had a 20 percent reduction in heart failure ...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 18 (UPI) -- A Massachusetts Institute of Technology team says it has created the first implantable device that can continuously monitor cancer growth.
... in milder cases.
But issues including cost have some questioning how widely it
should be used.
An implantable device that shocks an erratically beating heart and
works to keep both ventricles of the ...
... populations, an experimental device that lowers blood pressure may be a cost effective treatment. The implantable device, called Rheos, is in advanced stages of testing for individuals with drug ...
... heart devices are present mainly benefits elderly patients, who are the most prone to have implanted devices (primarily pacemakers) and to experience unexplained intestinal bleeding from illnesses or ...
... to regrow their lost breast using their
own tissue. The device looks like the cup of a bra, and is
implanted under the skin where the breast was removed. A bit of the
woman's ...
... new generation of implanted devices that help a failing heart function properly is significantly more effective ... continuous-flow left ventricular assist device (LVAD), or a larger, pulsatile-flow LVAD ...
