April 1, 2009
@import url(www.google.com/cse/api/branding.css); Custom Search by Ann-Marie Waters, Associate Editor. An ultrasonic device tiny enough to navigate the arteries of the human heart, could enable doctors to perform a far safer job of cleaning cholesterol-laden plaque from the walls of the blood-vessels of heart disease patients. The remote control device – developed by cardiologist Paul G. ...
March 25, 2009
@import url(www.google.com/cse/api/branding.css); Custom Search By Ann-Marie Waters, Associate Editor A mitten which resembles an oven glove could save lives by speeding up the diagnosis of heart attacks. The glove – called PhysioGlove and developed by an American company called Commwell Inc. is placed on the patient’s left hand and held against their chest. It contains ...
February 24, 2009
A new high definition Computerised Tomograpghy (CT) scanner has today been commissioned at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading, United Kingdom, and is set to bring major benefits for the diagnosis and treatment of heart and cardiac patients. Consultants at the hospital have welcomed it’s installation, commenting that this is a huge step forward. The ...
January 31, 2009
Daylight Savings Time – March 8th 2009 With the end of the winter rapidly approaching, we all look forward to lighter evenings, and the additional daylight that the start of Daylight Savings Time, which begins in the United States on March 8th 2009, brings. Around the world an additional 1.5 billion people experience the same ...