Sentences with phrase «of pacemaker in»

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Be it alarm systems, GPS, web cameras, HVAC or medical devices, such as pacemakers, it'd be hard to guess which of these devices are even connected to the internet in the first place.

A new report from security firm WhiteScope underscores why: more than 8,600 security flaws were identified in an analysis of seven different pacemaker programmer systems and third - party data libraries.

In 1994, St. Jude, under pressure to diversify, completed a $ 500 million deal with Siemens to purchase Pacesetter, then the world's second - largest producer of pacemakers.

The portable products to date are mostly improvements on the classic Life Alert «I've Fallen And I Can't Get Up» button, but services to remind taking of medications at precise times, direct doctor - to - device monitoring (as with embedded pacemakers), permitting adult children to easily monitor parents» activity in their homes at a distance, etc. are fast emerging and gaining traction in the marketplace.

VA invented the first implantable cardiac pacemaker; VA created the concept of taking an aspirin a day to ward off heart disease; VA did the first electronic medical record; VA did the first moveable prosthetic device based on implanting a chip in your brain.

All of this likely took its toll on the 85 - year - old, who walks with a cane, has a pacemaker, and has looked increasingly frailer in recent months.

The electronic media industry that shapes consciousness has become the pacemaker for the social and economic development of societies in the late industrial age.

In echoes of Paris five days earlier, when Muir's attacking tactics paid off with that British record, she followed closely behind pacemaker Jenny Meadows, who led through 400m in 62.59 seconds and 800m in 2:08.1In echoes of Paris five days earlier, when Muir's attacking tactics paid off with that British record, she followed closely behind pacemaker Jenny Meadows, who led through 400m in 62.59 seconds and 800m in 2:08.1in 62.59 seconds and 800m in 2:08.1in 2:08.10.

Before the race, Gebrselassie joked that he was one of the best - paid pacemakers in history.

At a minimum of 250 cm, or halfway up the track, there is a blue line called the stayer's line, used in stayer races (races behind pacemaker - motorbikes) as a separation line.

If they pass a rule on the minimum level of recyclable material in paper packaging or a requirement to stop a car's electrical systems from interfering with pacemakers, they need everyone to follow it so that goods can go between countries without being checked.

New York wants most of the state to be reliant on clean energy in 15 years, and the key to getting it done may lie with the award - winning Long Island researcher who developed the pacemaker battery.

He also concocted a new way to measure the flexibility of fishing line leaders, the part of the line nearest the lure, using a technique he had previously developed to gauge the bending stiffness of the tiny wires in pacemakers.

Deep - brain stimulation involves the surgical placement of electrodes in the brain to deliver stimulation to targeted areas that control movement, similar to the way pacemakers are used to maintain a healthy heart rate.

The Northwestern team, led by physiologist James Surmeier, reports in the online edition of Nature that the dopamine neurons, which are targeted by Parkinson's, are constantly at work — like a pacemaker — sending the striatum nonstop, electrical pulses.

Researchers long believed the brain was ruled by a single clock that kept all its disparate activities in sync, like a pacemaker that sends out a regular pulse — a sort of cerebral Greenwich mean time.

A study of Food and Drug Administration data for several million pacemakers and defibrillators implanted in 1990 - 2002 found that about one in 150 failed, about one quarter of these failures were battery / capacitor abnormalities, and 61 people died due to device malfunctions.

From syringes to specialist imaging equipment and pacemakers to orthopaedic implants, Switzerland has companies specialising in all areas of medtech and can boast 10 per cent of Europe's workforce in this field, says a report published last year by the export advisory platform, Medtech Switzerland.

To regulate mood, the prefrontal cortex acts as a pacemaker to coordinate the actions of the amygdala, which governs stress responses, and the ventral tegmental area, which plays a role in the brain's reward circuitry.

A whole range of physiological factors — alertness, mental acuity, body temperature and the production of key body hormones — rise and fall in a 24 - hour cycle, directed by poorly understood «pacemakers» in the brain.

Furness's surgical technique, tested successfully in rats, rabbits, and dogs, involves removing muscle tissue from various parts of the body to create a replacement urinary sphincter, then implanting the sphincter along with a small electrical stimulator similar to a pacemaker.

In experiments with laboratory mice, Ramirez and his colleagues distinguished two groups of pacemaker neurons that govern breathing.

Taylor believes that an artificial pacemaker coupled with a biosynthetic heart could allow doctors to create made - to - order, rejection - free human heart implants — a salvation for the thousands of people in the United States who die each year while awaiting traditional heart transplants.

«Key regulator in pacemakers of our brain, heart discovered.»

In a 2012 episode of the TV series Homeland, Vice President William Walden is assassinated by a terrorist who hacks into his Internet - enabled heart pacemaker and accelerates his heartbeat until he has a heart attack.

In 2007, Vice President Dick Cheney's cardiologist disabled the wireless functionality of his pacemaker because of just that risk.

This research will enable smaller implantable pacemakers in the future, which would result in less invasive procedures to implant them and the devices would need to be replaced less frequently, firmly establishing MCCI as a center of excellence for bio-medical microelectronics research.»

A milliliter's worth of these electrodes could in principle generate a peak power level of 24.4 microwatts, more than the 10 microwatts typically needed by pacemakers, the researchers added.

From health monitoring sensors woven into clothing to pacemaker leads that never wear out, stretchable electronics could usher in a new era of wearable tech.

Across a range of disorders, deep - brain stimulation works much the same way: A pacemaker - like device in the chest transmits a signal to the implanted electrode via wires that run underneath the scalp.

NYU Langone Medical Center last month became the first hospital outside of a clinical trial site to implant a pacemaker - like device in the brain that may be a game - changer for patients with epilepsy.

Counterintuitively, key heart health indicators proved markedly better in dogs with pacemakers programmed for a period of irregular contractions

This greatly slowed the heartbeat and created the kind of condition that might require a pacemaker in a human patient.

In the past, MRIs have been considered risky because of the fear a pacemaker or defibrillator device's generator circuits could be disrupted, or its metal leads could be pulled out of place by the magnetism, or the lead tips could become hot and scar surrounding tissues, interfering with pacing and defibrillating function.

As the UPV / EHU researcher Jasone Astorga explained, it has been found that «the energy consumption of this Ladon protocol is negligible in comparison with the usual consumption of a pacemaker or ICD when applying its therapy (stimulating or defibrillating), and has no significant impact on how long the batteries last.»

In any case, the possibility of marketing this protocol for these purposes is still a long way off, as validations would have to be conducted on real pacemakers.

In modern western societies the fitting of pacemakers and implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) is growing rapidly.

For the first time ever, thin electrical wires were surgically implanted into the frontal lobes of the brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease to determine if using a brain pacemaker could improve cognitive, behavioral, and functional abilities in patients with this form of dementia.

She expects such a multidisciplinary approach to pay off in the form of applications such as lithium batteries for stronger and more comfortable pacemakers and better metal implants for damaged bones.

Longino argues that the commonsense value of «simplicity» in scientific reasoning sometimes stands for a preference for — or an ability only to imagine — linear hierarchical theories, such as the theory that slime mold aggregates because of special pacemaker cells that rule the other cells in the mold.

Babakhani says his colleagues have successfully implanted their new pacemaker in five pigs, regulating the animals» heartbeats at a variety of paces with no immediate adverse effects.

The interference was never great enough to cause medical difficulties, says Hayes, and many of the volunteers failed to notice any symptoms even when the researchers could see changes in their pacemaker's output.

«Brain pacemaker study shows promise in slowing decline of Alzheimer's: Patients with surgical implant retain functionality longer, improve quality of life.»

The cool reception to the suggestion that GCR's are involved in glacial - interglacial cycles comes because there is overwhelming evidence that Milankovic is the basic pacemaker, which needs to be supplemented with an amplifying feedback (certainly involving CO2) and some kind of rectifier of the seasonal cycle.

A heart - on - a-chip being developed in the lab of Gordana Vunjak - Novakovic, professor of biomedical engineering at Columbia University, incorporates electrodes that act like mini pacemakers to «shock» the cells into beating, just as they would in a real heart.

Almost all of the cells in our body contain a circadian clock and are mainly controlled by a central circadian pacemaker, located in the hypothalamus of the brain.

In the new research, when a spheroid of induced pacemaker cells was surrounded by a layer of cardiac muscle cells, the IPM cells were able to drive the previously quiescent nearby cells at around 145 beats per minute.

The magnetic fields and radio waves used in cardiac MRI are harmless, although the procedure can disrupt the functioning of pacemakers and implantable defibrillators and is therefore off - limits to patients with those devices.

As it turns out, the highest density of VGCCs are found in your nervous system, the pacemaker in your heart and in male testes.

The study, which was published in the British Journal of Pharmacology, investigated the fallopian tubes of mice and discovered that caffeine stops the actions of specialized pacemaker cells in the wall of the tubes.