There’s a new online community out there called My Afib Experience. It’s meant to help people understand afib better, and to help people get more support. The site is a collaboration between the American Heart Association, the American Stroke Association, and Stop Afib.org. There will be a lot of information on the site, including information on topics like healthy eating and dining out, exercise, travel, questions to ask doctors, and more. According to MedicalExpress, users can create profiles based on […]
READ MOREStick-On "Skin Patches" For Monitoring Atrial Fibrillation?
These tiny skin patches aren’t aimed squarely at a-fib, but they’re still important developments. That’s because a stick-on health patch developed by engineers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Northwestern University could monitor EKG and EEG data. The patch is skin-thin and unobtrusive. It uses wireless data to send information back to a doctor’s computer in real time. The researchers did a side-by-side comparison with traditional EKG and EEG monitors and found the wireless patch performed equally to […]
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