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Podcast: StartUp Health NOW Podcast
Episode: Qura’s Tiny Implantables Could Revolutionize How We Treat Hypertension
Description: When it comes to health technology, often the next big thing is really, really small.
Our guest on the show this week, Dr. Will Hendren, has seen personally that when it comes to implanting a medical device in the body, size matters.
Dr. Hendren spent decades as a surgeon working with rescue devices like pacemakers, which themselves have evolved from being the size of a pack of cigarettes to being smaller than a triple A battery. It doesn’t take a degree in biomechanical engineering to appreciate that you want a lower profile machine sitting ne...