This lecture offers a survey of the brilliant new breakthroughs in treatments for heart defects and their implications for medical practice more generally: http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/the-next-disruptive-technologies-new-ways-to-treat-old-diseases

Advances in prenatal diagnosis, fetal intervention and methods of imaging and functional assessment will be presented. The possibilities of gene therapy, regenerative medicine and stem-cell based tissue construction will be described, as well as the opportunities for monitoring patients directly by remote technology. This might minimize the need for direct doctor:patient contact, further reducing cost, but it does present the problem of ever-increasing volumes of data to manage.

What affects are these changes having today, and how might they affect the future of medical services in this country and beyond?
The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website: http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/the-next-disruptive-technologies-new-ways-to-treat-old-diseases
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