CardioMEMS ran into a regulatory roadblock last week, when an FDA advisory panel recommended that the agency not approve the company's Champion HF Monitoring System. The device is said to be the first ...

Accurately measuring electrical signals and calcium levels in the heart can lead to earlier treatment of potentially fatal conditions, such as heart attack or congestive heart failure. Calcium plays ...

Aetna will provide coverage to members using wearable heart monitoring devices distributed by medical technology company VitalConnect, a July 20 news release said. The company’s four-part cardiac ...

When most people think of NASA, they envision rockets soaring into space or rovers exploring distant planets. However, some of the agency's most impactful innovations never leave Earth's atmosphere.

Swedish medical device startup Acorai is pairing proprietary sensing hardware and machine learning software with the goal of putting a non-invasive heart pressure monitoring tool in the hands of ...

It didn’t take much to hack into the heart monitoring device and get it to administer a 137-volt shock: an oscilloscope, a PC, a wireless radio with a couple of antennas and some free software. With ...

Researchers have developed a first-of-its-kind wearable device capable of continuously scanning the lungs and heart of hospital patients while they rest in bed—offering a revolutionary alternative to ...

Ninety-nine percent of global newborn deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), where pregnant women often struggle to access adequate fetal monitoring. In Tanzania, with 24 neonatal ...