Wireless, battery-free, fully implantable pacemakers made of bioresorbable components could represent the future of temporary pacing technology. Flexible, dissolvable electronics could soon pave the way for temporary pacemaker wearers to avert the risks associated with surgical procedures from initial implantation to the removal of the device once its job is done. Northwestern and George Washington […]
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Study: Timing for knee replacement surgeries is off
New research from Northwestern Medicine suggests that patients with knee osteoarthritis are having knee surgery at the wrong time. According to the researchers, 90% of patients who could benefit from knee replacement surgery are waiting too long to have it and 25% of patients who don’t need it are having it prematurely. Get the full […]
Want to save your medical device as a souvenir? It’s easier than you might think
Keeping a medical device that was inside you — or even a removed body part — is actually easier than it might seem, according to a recent story in the Chicago Tribune. Just ask Barbara Brotman. Brotman is a senior assistant director of development communications for University of Chicago Medicine and Biological Sciences and a […]