The Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board have sent a letter to the Office of Management and Budget to point out the serious cyber threats that target medical devices, urging the organization to take immediate action.
Last year, at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, security researcher Jerome ... |
11 April 2012
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For the first time in Canada, the Peter Munk Cardiac Center implanted a long-lasting mechanical heart in a heart-failure patient.This new left ventricular assist device – LVAD, is longer lasting than the older generation and is excludes the need for a second surgery.The person who benefited from this innovation... |
12 October 2010
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The ingenuity of inventors is a powerful thing, and an amazing one as well, as evidenced by British researchers, who created the first heart-powered electricity generator in the world. The device, tested on pigs, works quite simply, or so the inventors say. During tests, scientists at the Southampton University Hospi... |
11 November 2008
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Recent scientific studies have shown that entertainment devices, such as headphones for MP3 players, interfere with medical devices, when the two are in close proximity to each other. The leaders of the current study say that a 3-cm distance should be enough to guarantee no interference between the two classes of equ... |
10 November 2008
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MIT scientists managed to fully map the interactions that occur between two pacemakers in the brain, which help humans breathe constantly and regularly. The parafacial respiratory group (pFRG) and the pre-Botzinger complex (preBotC) regions of the brain work together to ensure that a person doesn't suffocate, ba... |
4 November 2008
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Following rumors that "errant electronic noise" coming from Apple's iPods may cause "implantable" cardiac pacemakers to malfunction, cardiac electrophysiologists at Children's Hospital in Boston have conducted rigorous tests and have concluded that iPods are actually quite safe."Many of our pacemaker patien... |
31 March 2008
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It has been proved several times in the past that certain devices which emit electro-magnetic waves can and will interfere with pacemakers. The iPod was one of the presumed such devices, following a student's suggestion that the iPod's functions could interfere with heart regulators. Recently though, the Fo... |
4 February 2008
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Looking at a nice girl/boy or running for a few miles, and your heart goes wild. But how does the heart recover its normal pace?Scientists have discovered how we "put the brakes" on a racing heartbeat. A team at the University of Illinois at Chicago has discovered how an enzyme acts on the heart's pacemaker to s... |
14 May 2007
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