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Heart Could Power its Own Pacemaker

Posted November 6th, 2012 at 1:10 pm (UTC-5)
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Patients whose hearts need a bit of help keeping the beat are often given a pacemaker, which delivers electrical pulses to regulate heartbeats. The tiny electronic devices, surgically implanted beneath the skin on the chest, must be replaced every five to seven years when their batteries run out. But an experimental device that converts energy […]

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