Zarlink Semiconductor, an Ottawa chip company, is taking part in an EU project aiming at developping in-body antenna chips for medical devices such as pacemakers and hearing aids.

Today, a patient would most likely need surgery to remove a problematic pacemaker, and then have an adjusted device implanted, but the new system would allow doctors to monitor and fix the devices wirelessly from up to three metres away.

Details in USA Today.
Press Release.
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