The Pacemaker And Alzheimer's New Inventions

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There are many people dying every year for diseases that need special technology to fight against them. Despite the high number of diseases, scientists have developed new inventions as an answer to keep alive millions of people. An example of those inventions there is the pacemaker, which is a device to recovery the people that have heart diseases by electrical impulses for revitalizing and regulating the heart function.

In addition, the Pacemaker as an invention was thanking Australians Scientists Dr Mark C. Lidwell and Physicist Edgar H. Booth in 1926. However, the first treatment using this apparatus was in 1928 to revive a stillborn infant who had heart problems. Technically, the pacemaker has two poles connected into one energy point,

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