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Article: Health services company works to detect cardiac arrhythmias in astronauts.
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- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- November 24, 2004
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2004 NOV 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- With NASA looking toward extending missions to further explore space, the NASA Glenn Research Center has partnered with MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland, Ohio, to develop a method of measuring whether astronauts are more susceptible to serious cardiac episodes the longer they are in space.
Ultimately, NASA expects the venture will enhance its ability to monitor astronauts' in-flight arrhythmic activity from the ground - in real time - via the Internet using NASA's Embedded Web Technology.
Through the John Glenn Biomedical Engineering Consortium, NASA teamed with MetroHealth to determine a method for ...