Developed by Northwestern Engineering’s Igor Efimov and George Washington University’s Luyao Lu, the implantable device uses ...

By shrinking the devices, researchers are making them easier to power and to implant. For example, Medtronic is now working on tiny wireless heart monitors with a volume of just one cubic ...

Last year, for example, a review of more than 3,500 alerts in 61 patients with implanted heart monitors over the course of several months found high rates of false alerts with the devices ...

Abbott's first-of-a-kind smartphone compatible heart monitor has been approved by for ... which is the slimmest of its kind available and is implanted just under the skin on the chest, transmits ...

But traditional heart monitors have required specialized external hardware. That’s not the case with Abbott’s Confirm Rx Insertable Cardiac Monitor, which is implanted just under the skin and ...

The researchers built an implantable microdevice with the electrode ... Clinicians measure BNP to diagnose and monitor heart failure, but, currently, there is no way to continuously track this ...

An automated implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD or AICD) is a permanent device in which a lead (wire) inserts into the right ventricle and monitors the heart rhythm. It is implanted ...

On Sable Island, a pilot program is giving marine scientists from WHOI and partners a rare window into the lives of gray seal pups. Here's how.