Topics and Expertise: heart failure

Wearable device monitors heart failure

Tue Feb 13, 2018
Roy
Susan Merrell

Shuvo Roy, PhD

A new study published in Circulation: Heart Failure shows how bioengineers are teaming up with clinicians to improve patient outcomes.

Chemicals used to turn skin cells into heart and brain cells

Thu Apr 28, 2016
Sheng Ding
Chris Goodfellow (Gladstone Institutes)

Sheng Ding, PhD (center), with Deepak Srivastava, MD (right), co-senior author of Science study, and Yadong Huang, MD, PhD (left), co-senior author Cell Stem Cell study.

In a major breakthrough, scientists at the Gladstone Institutes, led by UCSF School of Pharmacy faculty member Sheng Ding, PhD, have transformed skin cells into heart and brain cells using combinations of chemicals.

Home monitoring of heart failure via web-enabled bathroom scales wins award funding

Tue Aug 7, 2012
Etemadi.
Elisabeth Fall

Mozziyar Etemadi, MS

Can a retrofitted bathroom scale costing less than $100 save lives and improve the health of millions of Americans living with heart failure while cutting billions of dollars in annual health care spending?