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To see if a more naturally asymmetric design could improve blood flow, researchers created aluminum models of asymmetric valves, similar in size to the valves of an adult human heart.
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The 25.8 million Americans who have diabetes may soon be free of finger pricks and daily insulin dosing.
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Two small randomized trials published online today suggest that closed loop insulin delivery (also known as an artificial pancreas) may improve overnight blood glucose control and reduce the risk of nocturnal hypoglycemia (a sudden drop in blood glucose levels during the night) in adults with type 1 diabetes.
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Diabetes experts at a meeting convened by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) took the next step in advancing efforts toward the development of an artificial pancreas: putting forth clinical recommendations to ensure the safe and effective testing of artificial pancreas technology in real-life situations.
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UCSF researchers today unveiled a prototype model of the first implantable artificial kidney, in a development that one day could eliminate the need for dialysis.
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Results from two studies presented today at the International Liver Congress 2010 have shown that treatment with extracorporeal devices may not confer a survival advantage for severe liver failure patients, despite positive dialysis effects. However, results among a small sub-group of patients show promise.
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 | Scientists in Cambridge have made a significant step towards developing a so-called "artificial pancreas" system for managing type 1 diabetes in children. The team has developed and successfully tested a new algorithm, providing a stepping stone to home testing for the artificial pancreas. ...> Full Article |
 | A landmark study has successfully demonstrated a 29 percent reduction in heart failure or death in patients with heart disease who received an implanted cardiac resynchronization therapy device with defibrillator (CRT-D) vs. patients who received only an implanted cardiac defibrillator (ICD-only). ...> Full Article |
Three patients at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center were among the first in the United States to be implanted with a next-generation artificial heart pump called the DuraHeart Left-Ventricular Assist System. The surgeries took place earlier this year. NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia is one of only three centers in the US currently enrolling patients in a clinical trial studying the device.
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Device uses human liver cells to assist organ's functions
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Soft and tough like biological tissue: DNA-wrapped carbon nanotubes
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Patients with severe heart failure can be bridged to eventual transplant by a new, smaller and lighter implantable heart pump, according to a just-completed study of the device. Results of this third-generation heart assist device were reported at the 58th annual meeting of the American College of Cardiology on March 30.
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Patients on the waiting list for a heart transplant soon may have more options thanks to a new device
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Two researchers have developed a design for an automated, wearable artificial kidney, or AWAK, that avoids the complications patients often suffer with traditional dialysis.
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 | Engineers are developing two heart-assist pumps that individually perform the function of the left and right ventricles. ...> Full Article |
A central Ohio man has become the first person in the United States, and only the 16th worldwide, to receive a heart implant designed to improve the heart's pumping action and help manage congestive heart failure symptoms. The procedure was performed at The Ohio State University Medical Center.
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 | It's light enough to be worn on a tool belt around your waist. You can walk with it, work with it, sleep, take showers - even have sex with it on. ...> Full Article |
New professor's research involves heart and eye modeling, smart satellite imaging
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