Algorithm can predict and lengthen pacemaker battery life
Scientists have found a way to pick the best pacemaker for each patient, potentially making them last years longer.
Oct 29, 2025
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Looking beyond speech recognition to evaluate cochlear implants
More than a million people around the world rely on cochlear implants (CIs) to hear. CI effectiveness is generally evaluated through speech recognition tests, and despite how widespread they are, CI sound quality is typically ...
Oct 14, 2025
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Exploring how children with hearing loss learn to speak
Cochlear implants give children with profound hearing loss a much better chance to learn spoken language. However, the sounds from a cochlear implant aren't as clear as natural hearing, making it harder for children to connect ...
Oct 12, 2025
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Engineers develop technology that stimulates heart cells with light
In a new study, University of California, Irvine chemical and biomolecular engineering researchers report the creation of biomolecules that can help grow light-sensitive heart muscle cells in the laboratory. The development ...
Sep 15, 2025
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Reconditioned pacemakers provide new hope for patients in low- and middle-income countries
Procedure-related infection rates were similar to reconditioned and new pacemakers, according to late-breaking research presented in a Hot Line session at the ESC Congress 2025.
Sep 1, 2025
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Leveraging food delivery services to provide rapid cardiac arrest response could save lives
Inspired by an urgent need to improve timely defibrillation for out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCA) in dense urban settings, a team of investigators developed a simulation that explored the potential of leveraging an existing ...
Aug 28, 2025
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Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing medical image analysis
One in two Australians regularly use artificial intelligence (AI), with that number expected to grow. AI is showing up in our lives more prominently than ever, with the arrival of ChatGPT and other chatbots.
Aug 10, 2025
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How a drone delivering medicine might just save your life
Drones can deliver pizza, and maybe one day your online shopping. So why not use them to deliver urgent medicines or other emergency health-care supplies?
Jul 16, 2025
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Anti-inflammatory drug coating could improve body's tolerance to neural prosthetics
An international research team, including scientists from the Institut de Neurociències at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), has developed a new solution to reduce the immune response triggered by neural prosthetics ...
Jun 30, 2025
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Socioeconomic status can affect spoken language success in deaf children with cochlear implants
A recent study of outcomes in infants and young deaf children with cochlear implants (implanted electronic hearing device), suggests that socioeconomic status (SES) plays a major role in whether spoken language becomes their ...
Jun 30, 2025
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