CathVision: A Smoother Look at Cardiac Electrograms
CathVision is a Danish company that aims to reduce noisy electrogram signals during cardiac arrhythmia ablation procedures. With cleaner signals, cardiologists can better locate the areas that generate arrhythmias and ablate them. For example, with a higher signal-to-noise ratio, cardiologists can have higher confidence when probing the low-voltage areas of the heart. This is important because cardiac arrhythmias, which affect 2% of the world, remain an untreatable challenge in about 50% of ablation procedures.
Patients with cardiac arrhythmias have issues with conductance of the heart. In some cases, the wiring of the ...
Source: Medgadget - July 7, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Ben Ouyang Tags: Cardiology Source Type: blogs
Envisaging For-Profit Alternatives to Fight Aging! and Similar Initiatives
Useful activities in our community can be powered either by zealotry or by money. Zealotry has the advantage of being cheap, but the profound disadvantages of being rare, unreliable, and never quite optimally opinionated for the task at hand. Set a zealot to a challenge and you get the output the zealot decides upon, and only for so long as he or she is suitably motivated by whatever internal alchemy is at work in that particular case. Sustainable, reliable, long-term zealots only exist in stories. Money, on the other hand, has the disadvantage of being expensive, but for for so long as income is greater than expenditure, ...
Source: Fight Aging! - July 4, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Activism, Advocacy and Education Source Type: blogs
Ontario, Canada Poised to Lead Global Biotech Innovation: Interview with Minister Reza Moridi
Canada’s province of Ontario has been rapidly developing its infrastructure for world class biomedical research. In a place that birthed the discovery and isolation of insulin in 1921, the first external cardiac pacemaker in 1950, and the discovery of stem cells in 1961, Ontario has historically been ripe with biomedical innovation. Today, with 24 academic research hospitals and dedicated research institutes for cancer, neurology, genomics, and cardiovascular disease, Ontario pushes on the cutting edge of research. Given such an intense focus on basic and clinically-relevant research, the provincial government su...
Source: Medgadget - June 27, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Ben Ouyang Tags: Exclusive Society Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, June 26th 2017
Fight Aging! provides a weekly digest of news and commentary for thousands of subscribers interested in the latest longevity science: progress towards the medical control of aging in order to prevent age-related frailty, suffering, and disease, as well as improvements in the present understanding of what works and what doesn't work when it comes to extending healthy life. Expect to see summaries of recent advances in medical research, news from the scientific community, advocacy and fundraising initiatives to help speed work on the repair and reversal of aging, links to online resources, and much more.
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Source: Fight Aging! - June 25, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
SENS Research Foundation Publishes the 2016 Annual Rejuvenation Research Report
The SENS Research Foundation annual reports tend to arrive in the middle of the following year, and today the 2016 report was published. You can find it in PDF format at the foundation website. The story of SENS rejuvenation research, approaches that aim to repair the cell and tissue damage that causes aging, is one of growth and success over the years. It has been a bootstrapping from idea to reality, powered by the philanthropy and determined support of our community. We have come a long way and achieved a great deal these past fifteen years. Yet there remains the upward curve ahead, and the completion of the vision of a...
Source: Fight Aging! - June 22, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Healthy Life Extension Community Source Type: blogs
