Archive for August 2009

Philips launches latest in advanced technology to help detect heart disease in women

Royal Philips Electronics is to unveil its latest advance in heart disease detection, the PageWriter TC50 cardiograph, which uses gender-differentiated criteria to assist in the diagnosis of heart disease in women, where symptoms may be different from men. The PageWriter TC50 will have its global launch at the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Congress 2009. [...]



New technique could eliminate inherited mitochondrial disease

Researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health have developed an experimental technique with the potential to prevent a class of hereditary disorders passed on from mother to child. The technique, as yet conducted only in nonhuman primates, involves transferring the hereditary material from one female’s egg into another female’s egg from which the hereditary [...]



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