The National Institute of Health and joins forces with the University of Michigan to develop and test a wireless, battery-free, miniature heart device implanted in children or infants that will measure heart pressures without the invasive heart catheterizations. The group has been working on this device for three years and received funding from the National Institute of Health for another 2.5 [...]
“Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes have identified a finely tuned mechanism by which fetal heart muscle develops into a healthy and fully formed beating heart—offering new insight into the genetic causes of congenital heart disease and opening the door to one day developing therapies to fight this chronic and potentially fatal disorder.” Source- Gladstone Institute [...]
Pulse Oximetry for newborns has been in the news over the last year and we couldn’t be happier to see the progress! The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) is part of an advisory committee that makes recommendations for what disorders will be part of the mandatory screening for all newborns in the United States. This [...]
