Sleep disorders

3-D printed device relieves sleep apnoea

Sleep apnoea is a condition where the air passage in the throat becomes blocked during sleep and causes people to stop breathing.

Cardiology

Quantifying effectiveness of treatment for irregular heartbeat

In a small proof-of-concept study, researchers at Johns Hopkins report a complex mathematical method to measure electrical communications within the heart can successfully predict the effectiveness of catheter ablation, the ...

Cardiology

Changes in one heart molecule lead to arrhythmia

(Medical Xpress) -- A University at Albany biologist and his research team have discovered that a tiny cardiac molecule may have major implications for understanding irregular heartbeat, or arrhythmia. Haijun Chen, a UAlbany ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

Generous people give in a heartbeat—new study

Altruistic people are said to be "kind hearted" - and new research published in the journal Scientific Reports shows that generous people really are more in touch with their own hearts.

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