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This idea will allegedly detect irregular heartbeats and slow the car down. Uh, there are many, many folks out there with irregular heartbeats who aren’t having heart attack. Why not just sell a car that comes with a cardiologist on-board? Toyota’s new steering wheel could prevent heart attacks Contact sensors are located at the “10 [...]
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These are some of the best sources of medical information on the Web: www.mayoclinic.com Reliable, evidence based medical information. Well-presented, well-written. www.clevelandclinic.org Good collection of resources for heart issues. www.askapatient.com A tremendous resource on medication; consumers writing about their experience and side effects of medication. Information that you will not see on a pharmaceutical website. [...]
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A new approach to analyzing electrocardiograms–a ubiquitous test of the heart’s electrical function–could predict who is most likely to die after a heart attack. Researchers at MIT found that measuring how much the shape of the electrical waveform varies from beat to beat identifies high-risk patients better than existing risk factors. If the findings hold [...]
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