Galway Bay fm newsroom:
A Galway team has made a major medical device breakthrough for heart attack patients.
The collaborative international study has designed a novel minimally-invasive device that could increase heart function after a heart attack.
The new study is led by NUI Galway, Harvard University, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology and describes the breakthrough implantable tool.
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The study was published yesterday in the international journal, Nature Biomedical Engineering.
Senior co-author of the study, Professor Garry Duffy says the device could help with break throughs for a number of different treatments.
