Tech News March 4, 2014

  • Heart Implants, 3-D-Printed to Order

    Tailor-made medical devices could give a more detailed picture of cardiac health and may be better at predicting and preventing problems.

    It’s a poetic fact of biology that everyone’s heart is a slightly different size and shape. And yet today’s cardiac implants—medical devices like pacemakers and defibrillators—are basically one size fits all. Among other things, this means these devices, though lifesaving for many patients, are limited in the information they can gather.

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