Vlad Frenk

Vlad Frenk, MD, is a board-certified cardiac anesthesiologist and our editor. Dr. Frenk graduated with his Doctor of Medicine from the University of California San Francisco. He went on to fulfill his anesthesiology residency and cardiac fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA. He is dedicated to clinical research and discoveries of new trends in medical technologies. He has been published his work for Medgadget and numerous scientific publications and has lectured on medical technologies topics.

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News

October 3rd, 2017 At ETH Zurich in Switzerland, researchers have developed tiny new biodegradable sensors that can measure the temperature of things they're embedded in. The technology is primarily designed to help monitor food safety, but will certainly also be useful for keeping track of temperature sensitive medications and medical devices. The...
Cardiac Surgery

September 29th, 2017 Medtronic's HeartWare HVAD system, a left ventricular assist device, has been approved by the FDA as a "destination therapy" for those with advanced heart failure that cannot receive a transplanted heart. The HeartWare HVAD heart pump is a centrifugal flow device that augments blood from the left ventricle into the body, alleviating...
Neurology

September 26th, 2017 Researchers from Purdue University, Indiana University, and the University of Calgary have developed and are testing a set of video games to help improve the everyday lives of people with Parkinson's disease. The team relied on a Nintendo Wii video game platform coupled with the Wii Balance Board to run games in which a player moves...
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