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US Government Wanted To Make The Perfect Artificial Heart — With Radioactive Decay

The idea of putting a decaying radioactive isotope inside your chest might make you a little uneasy — and rightly so. But, in 1967, the National Heart Institute and the Atomic Energy Agency set out to make it happen in the form of an plutonium-238-powered atomic heart. Think Tony Stark with nuclear waste in his chest.

6 November 2012

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This Complex 3D Heart Simulator Can Run On Just A Laptop

Supercomputers let us simulate everything from the weather, to a chess match against a master, to how the human body operates. But researchers at Japan’s National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center have created a detailed 3D simulation of a beating human heart that can run on a laptop, allowing even small hospitals to perform research and complex diagnoses.

3 September 2012

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The Amazing Story Of The Woman Who Had To Be Upside Down To Stay Alive

Discover Magazine has an amazing story about how a woman needed to be carried upside down in order to stay alive. It sounds crazy, but it’s real. The reason she had to be held upside down was because her pacemaker had disconnected from her heart.

23 May 2012

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Baby’s Life Saved By World’s Smallest Artificial Heart

Like all technology, medical implants can be made smaller as the engineering behind them gets more advanced. That’s how a 16-month-old Italian baby was able to become the recipient of the world’s smallest artificial heart — and have its life saved in the process.

27 April 2012

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New 3D Images Let Doctors See What Causes An Irregular Heartbeat

A healthy heart beats evenly as a metronome, sending oxygen-rich blood to your organs and appendages. But if your ticker’s rhythm isn’t so even, it can lead to fibrillation — rapid, unsynchronised contraction of the muscles that impedes the delivery of blood around the body.

14 February 2012

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Your Heartbeat Could Be Your Password

A technology in the works might soon allow you to unlock your hard drive by simply touching your keyboard. Your unique heartbeat, emitted through your fingertip, would be your password.

21 September 2011

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Light-Controlled Cells: The Sub-Dermal Dance Party That Keeps Your Dead Heart Beating

Heart cells created by Stanford researchers could lead to a better pacemaker: The beat of the cells is paced by light rather than electricity.

1 September 2011

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A Beating Heart In A Box Looks Terrifying, Could Save Your Life

If I ever needed a heart transplant, seeing a living, tell-tale heart before before my eyes would probably scare me to death. But TransMedic’s unique organ care system could prove to keep that heart fresher for longer until you need it.

30 August 2011

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An Electronic Sensor Could Smell The Stench Of Heart Disease

Go ahead and add heart disease to the never ending list of ailments that can be detected by a non-human nose, German researchers have created a sensor that can smell heart disease.

21 July 2011

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How A Car Company Built The World’s First Mechanical Heart

In 1952, Dr Forest Dodrill captured national attention when he became the first surgeon to use a mechanical heart pump on a patient at Wayne State University’s Harper Hospital in Detroit. There’s a reason that heart pump looks like a 12-cylinder engine. It was made by General Motors.

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