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Apple Watch Helps 12-Year-Old Girl Detect Cancer Through Heart Rate Notifications: Report
Apple Watch reportedly helped save the life of a 12-year-old girl in the US with cancer, who was able to seek treatment in time. The Cupertino company's wearable smartwatches have saved the lives of several users in the past, by by calling emergency services when they are unable to access their phones,
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Irregular Heart Rate, Carotid Disease May Up Dementia Risk
The study showed that the impact on the blood flow due to a combination of both the diseases increases the risk for developing dementia.
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New Implant To Ease Sleep Apnea
Researchers have developed a new implant device - a pacemaker with a tiny generator and a sensing lead - which instead of using electrical pulses to control abnormal heart rate, uses two wires to stimulate the tongue to help cut sleep apnea.
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Relax! Coffee Won't Make Heartbeat Go Haywire
People who like drinking coffee can safely continue to have it, at least in moderation, without the risk of developing atrial fibrillation -- a heart condition that causes an irregular and often abnormally fast heart rate, suggests new research.
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'Used' pacemakers give Indians new lease of life
Chandrakan Pawar is lucky to be alive. In September, the Indian former textile mill worker was given an artificial pacemaker after his heart rate plunged to just 20 to 30 beats per minute. On the face of it, his case was not unusual, with the use of pacemakers to correct abnormal heart rates now commonplace around the world. What was more unusual i...
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Early steroid exposure not risky
Steroid treatment given immediately before or after birth to reduce the rate and severity of chronic lung disease does not affect heart function in children.
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Heart abnormalities in children of HIV positive mothers
Infants born to women infected with HIV-1 have a significantly worse cardiac function than other infants, suggesting that the uterine environment has an important role in the development of heart abnormalities after birth.
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Apple Watch Helps 12-Year-Old Girl Detect Cancer Through Heart Rate Notifications: Report
Apple Watch reportedly helped save the life of a 12-year-old girl in the US with cancer, who was able to seek treatment in time. The Cupertino company's wearable smartwatches have saved the lives of several users in the past, by by calling emergency services when they are unable to access their phones,
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Irregular Heart Rate, Carotid Disease May Up Dementia Risk
The study showed that the impact on the blood flow due to a combination of both the diseases increases the risk for developing dementia.
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New Implant To Ease Sleep Apnea
Researchers have developed a new implant device - a pacemaker with a tiny generator and a sensing lead - which instead of using electrical pulses to control abnormal heart rate, uses two wires to stimulate the tongue to help cut sleep apnea.
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Relax! Coffee Won't Make Heartbeat Go Haywire
People who like drinking coffee can safely continue to have it, at least in moderation, without the risk of developing atrial fibrillation -- a heart condition that causes an irregular and often abnormally fast heart rate, suggests new research.
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'Used' pacemakers give Indians new lease of life
Chandrakan Pawar is lucky to be alive. In September, the Indian former textile mill worker was given an artificial pacemaker after his heart rate plunged to just 20 to 30 beats per minute. On the face of it, his case was not unusual, with the use of pacemakers to correct abnormal heart rates now commonplace around the world. What was more unusual i...
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Early steroid exposure not risky
Steroid treatment given immediately before or after birth to reduce the rate and severity of chronic lung disease does not affect heart function in children.
-
Heart abnormalities in children of HIV positive mothers
Infants born to women infected with HIV-1 have a significantly worse cardiac function than other infants, suggesting that the uterine environment has an important role in the development of heart abnormalities after birth.
