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Sleeping during the day -- a necessity for jet-lagged travelers and those who work overnight shifts -- disrupts the rhythms of about one-third of your genes, a new study suggests. What's more, shifted sleep appears to disrupt gene ...
Lawrence Schmelz spent a lot of time in the gym keeping his body fit -- up to two hours a day, every day, at age 50. But that changed one morning six years ago when the Rockville, Md., resident woke up with the irregular heartbeat known ...
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Cutting back on exercise, or stopping altogether, might seem like the right move for people whose heart beats too fast and erratically, a condition called atrial fibrillation. But that's not necessarily so. In fact, staying active -- ...
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Americans' concerns about stomach ulcers and other stress-related health problems rose sharply during the recent recession, according to a new study. Researchers analyzed Google search patterns from December 2008 through the end of 2011 ...
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If you ever experience performance anxiety -- commonly known as stage fright -- getting excited might help more than trying to calm down, according to a new study. Researchers at Harvard Business School found that becoming excited before ...
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The computing giant recently obtained a pair of new patents, one related to hover touch sensors and the other an integrated heart rate monitor that might be included in some of the company's 2014 product launches. The cardiac sensor can be ...
Apple has been awarded patents that include one for an accurate touch and hover panel, originally filed back in 2010, and another for an embedded heart rate monitor, originally filed in 2009. Details of the patents were reported by ...
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A widely used type of heart monitor may provide a simple way to predict a person's risk for a common heart rhythm disorder called atrial fibrillation, according to a new study. Researchers found that people who have a greater number of ...
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Many older Americans take the blood thinner warfarin to help guard against heart trouble. However, a new study suggests use of the drug is tied to a temporary spike in the risk of stroke for people with a common heart rhythm disorder. ...
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Hundreds of thousands of automated external defibrillators (AEDs) made by Philips Healthcare might not deliver a needed shock to the heart in an emergency, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said in an updated warning. Latest ...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Circulatory System Devices Panel of the Medical Devices Advisory Committee voted favorably by a majority that the benefits of the Boston Scientific's WATCHMAN left atrial appendage closure device ...
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The Micra device is billed as the world's smallest pacemaker Medtronic is moving forward with studies on its own leadless pacemaker, the horse pill-sized Micra Transcatheter Pacing System that is only one-tenth the size of a standard ...
US-based Medtronic has announced that its Micra transcatheter pacing system (TPS) has been implanted in the first patient in Austria as part of the company’s multi-center global clinical trial. The single-arm, pivotal clinical trial ...
Asahi Kasei Zoll Medical, the Japanese subsidiary of Zoll Medical, has obtained Shonin approval from the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) for its X Series monitor/defibrillator, designed primarily for emergency medical ...