Tag Archives: heart

ESC: Merck’s Steglatro shows limited promise with heart failure hospitalization data

Late to the party against its SGLT2 diabetes rivals, Merck & Co.’s Steglatro has also tracked way behind in the class’ growing presence in heart failure. Now, the drugmaker has posted new data showing Steglatro could, in fact, show benefits in that indication—but it’s a limited window into the future. Steglatro cut heart failure patients’ risk… Read More »

Researchers 3D print lifelike heart valve models

Researchers from the University of Minnesota, with support from Medtronic, have developed a groundbreaking process for multi-material 3D printing of lifelike models of the heart’s aortic valve and the surrounding structures that mimic the exact look and feel of a real patient. These patient-specific organ models, which include 3D-printed soft sensor arrays integrated into the… Read More »