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PUNE: Twelve-year-old Maryam (name changed) came to India from Yemen in July last year with hopes of overcoming her medical condition after suffering from a congenital spinal defect called ...

Though a Northwestern-developed quarter-size dissolvable pacemaker worked well in pre-clinical animal studies, cardiac surgeons asked if it was possible to make the device smaller. To reduce the size ...