cardiovascular health

Next-Generation Total Artificial Heart Successfully Transplanted into First US Patient

Posted in Hardware, Medicine on 4th Aug, 2021
by Alex Muller

Embedded sensors automatically adapt blood flow to a person’s needs in any given moment; if, for example, they’re exercising, blood flow will increase. It's this aspect that has earned the Carmat heart the designation of 'next-generation'

Gardening 'linked to longer lives'

Posted in Medicine on 30th Oct, 2013
by Alex Muller

Pottering around the garden or fixing up the house has been linked to a longer life in a study of people over the age of 60.