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A Personalized Virtual Heart Predicts the Risk of Sudden Cardiac Death

When electrical waves in the heart run amok in a condition called arrhythmia, sudden death can occur. To save the life of a patient at risk, doctors currently implant a small defibrillator to sense the onset of arrhythmia and jolt the heart back to a normal rhythm. But a thorny question remains: How should doctors decide which patients truly need an invasive, costly electrical implant that is not without health risks of its own?

Online Therapy Effective at Treating Depression and Anxiety

Doctors from the University of Pittsburgh showed that providing an online computerized cognitive behavioral therapy (CCBT) program both alone and in combination with Internet Support Groups (ISG) is a more effective treatment for anxiety and depression than doctors' usual primary care.

Ingestible Robot Operates in Simulated Stomach

In experiments involving a simulation of the human esophagus and stomach, researchers at MIT, the University of Sheffield, and the Tokyo Institute of Technology have demonstrated a tiny origami robot that can unfold itself from a swallowed capsule and, steered by external magnetic fields, crawl across the stomach wall to remove a swallowed button battery or patch a wound.

New Photonics Technique to Eliminate Unnecessary Thyroid Cancer Surgery

A team of experts from around Europe has come together to develop a portable device with a hand-held probe that will dramatically reduce invasive diagnostic and therapeutic procedures in the treatment of thyroid nodules, saving approximately €450 million Euros every year.

MyHealthAvatar Android App on Google Play

MyHealthAvatar, a research project funded by the EU with aim to proof the concept of the digital representation of your health status, has launched the Android App on Google Play. Your health status could be designed as a lifetime companion (Avatar). Your Health Avatar will facilitate the collection of, and access to, long-term health-status information.

Healthcast to Present at Health 2.0 Europe in Barcelona

Healthcast, a Luxembourg eHealth startup, will present its solution to the Zika crisis at the Health 2.0 conference in Barcelona on 12th May. Healthcast empowers individuals to give best-practice care at home when a loved one is ill.

Smartphone App for Monitoring Heart Palpitations is Comparable to 14-day Event Monitor

A smartphone app that tracks palpitations in heart patients provides comparable performance to the 14-day event monitors that are the current standard of care, according to a University at Buffalo study presented May 4th at the annual Heart Rhythm Society (HRS) meeting in San Francisco.

Research and Development News

A Personalized Virtual Heart Predicts the Risk of Sudden Cardiac Death

Online Therapy Effective at Treating Depression and Anxiety

Ingestible Robot Operates in Simulated Stomach

New Photonics Technique to Eliminate Unnecessary Thyroid Cancer Surgery

MyHealthAvatar Android App on Google Play

Healthcast to Present at Health 2.0 Europe in Barcelona

Smartphone App for Monitoring Heart Palpitations is Comparable to 14-day Event Monitor

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