Breaking news on medical devices
Southampton Heart Experts Implant Europe's First 'Slinky' Stent published
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 04:00:00 PDT
Heart specialists at Southampton General Hospital are the first in Europe to implant an innovative 'slinky' coil to open a patient's blocked artery...
News From The Annals Of Internal Medicine: September 7, 2010 published
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 01:00:00 PDT
1. A Low-carb Diet Based on Animal Protein May Increase Death Risk Evidence shows that a low-carbohydrate diet produces weight loss and improves some cardiovascular risk factors. However, health effects of a low-carbohydrate diet may depend on the type of protein and fat consumed. Researchers followed 85,168 women and 44,548 men on a low-carbohydrate diet for 26 and 20 years respectively...
Scientists Decode Words From Brain Signals published
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 01:00:00 PDT
In an early step toward letting severely paralyzed people speak with their thoughts, University of Utah researchers translated brain signals into words using two grids of 16 microelectrodes implanted beneath the skull but atop the brain...
2011 Society Fellows Annnounced By Biophysical Society published
Mon, 06 Sep 2010 05:00:00 PDT
The Biophysical Society is delighted to announce its 2011 Society Fellows. Fellows are chosen based on their demonstrated excellence in science, contributions to the expansion of the field of biophysics, and support of the Biophysical Society...
CSI Laboratories To Build New Cancer Diagnostics Laboratory In Atlanta, GA published
Mon, 06 Sep 2010 05:00:00 PDT
CSI Laboratories®, a private national cancer diagnostic laboratory, announced the lease of a new 65,000 square foot facility in Alpharetta, GA, located north of the city of Atlanta. CSI Laboratories is committing $15 million to its strategic expansion project, and this newly leased space will house its next generation laboratory, with clinical operations beginning in mid-2011...
The Medal Of The Chemical Research Society Of India Awarded To Penn State Chemist Ayusman Sen published
Mon, 06 Sep 2010 01:00:00 PDT
Ayusman Sen, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Penn State University, has been honored with the Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI) Medal. Sen is only the second recipient of the medal, which is awarded exclusively to outstanding chemists of Indian origin who work outside of India...
Model For Implantable Artificial Kidney To Replace Dialysis Unveiled By UCSF published
Mon, 06 Sep 2010 00:00:00 PDT
UCSF researchers have unveiled a prototype model of the first implantable artificial kidney, in a development that one day could eliminate the need for dialysis...
Nanostructures Made From Edible Materials Could Be Used For Gas Storage, Food And Medical Technologies published
Mon, 06 Sep 2010 00:00:00 PDT
Sugar, salt, alcohol and a little serendipity led a Northwestern University research team to discover a new class of nanostructures that could be used for gas storage and food and medical technologies. And the compounds are edible. The porous crystals are the first known all-natural metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) that are simple to make...
Depression Significantly Improved By Non-Invasive Therapy published
Mon, 06 Sep 2010 00:00:00 PDT
Major depression is a common and disabling brain condition marked not only by the presence of depressed mood but also by its effects on sleep, energy, decision-making, memory and thoughts of death or of suicide. Major depression affects 15 million adults in the U.S...
CyberKnife Treatment For Prostate Cancer published
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 01:00:00 PDT
CyberKnife radiosurgery treatment for prostate cancer is rapid, effective and has no side effects, with the added benefit of being non-invasive. Since 2003, the CyberKnife Center of Miami and the CyberKnife Center of Palm Beach have been providing this high tech cancer treatment longer than any facility in South Florida...
ForteBio Announces Launch Of Protein G Biosensor For Use On Company's Octet® Instruments published
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 01:00:00 PDT
ForteBio®, Inc., a leading supplier of label-free technology that accelerates the development of biotherapeutic and pharmaceutical products, announced the launch of its Dip and Read™ Protein G biosensor for rapid detection and quantification of numerous types of mammalian immunoglobulin (IgG), an antibody molecule, from solution...
Second Annual Medical Device Connectivity Conference & Exhibition To Focus On Connecting Medical Devices To People, Workflow And Information Systems published
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 05:00:00 PDT
The Second Annual Medical Device Connectivity Conference & Exhibition, organized by The Center for Business Innovation (TCBI), will be held on September 28-29, 2010 at the Hyatt Regency Mission Bay in San Diego, CA...
Democrats Will Likely Push Again For Ground Zero Health Assistance published
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 05:00:00 PDT
Democrats are likely to again push to give billions in health coverage assistance to Ground Zero workers when they return from their recess, Roll Call reports. "A Democratic leadership aide said Tuesday that the bill likely would get the green light for floor action shortly after the House returns Sept. 14 in conjunction with events planned to commemorate the ninth anniversary of the Sept...
Drug Discovery Tools To Fight Cancer, Blindness To Be Discussed At UB Symposium published
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 05:00:00 PDT
Twenty-first-century pharmaceutical breakthroughs require 21st-century drug discovery tools, such as computational or in silico molecular design and high-throughput screening of effective, new compounds. That's the theme of a University at Buffalo symposium to be held Sept...
Gene Doping Detectable With A Simple Blood Test published
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 04:00:00 PDT
German scientists from Tübingen and Mainz have developed a blood test that can reliably detect gene doping even after 56 days. Scientists at the universities in Tübingen and Mainz have developed a test that can provide conclusive proof of gene doping...
Conference To Focus On Sustainable Health Care Transformation published
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 03:00:00 PDT
CPM Resource Center (CPMRC), an Elsevier company and leader in assisting healthcare organizations improve practice at the point of care, has announced that its 19th International Conference will take place Jan. 19-22, 2011, at the Hyatt Regency Embarcadero in San Francisco...
Long Term Data Presented At ESC 2010 Further Support The Benefit Of The CYPHER(R) Sirolimus Drug-Eluting Stent published
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 03:00:00 PDT
Three new analyses of subgroups from the SORT OUT III study presented at the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) meeting in Stockholm, Sweden, provide additional detail on longer-term follow-up subgroup safety and efficacy outcomes in the SORT OUT III trial in three high-risk subgroups (diabetes, acute coronary syndrome and multiple lesion)...
Banner Health Converts 23-Hospital System To Masimo Rainbow SET Technology published
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 03:00:00 PDT
Banner Health and Masimo (Nasdaq: MASI) jointly announce Banner Health's system-wide conversion to Masimo rainbow® SET technology. The system-wide conversion ensures that patients visiting any Banner Health hospital will be cared for using the most technologically and clinically-advanced oximetry and noninvasive patient monitoring solutions available...
ConvaTec Expands AQUACEL® Dressing Product Line With Introduction Of New Ribbon Dressing published
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 03:00:00 PDT
ConvaTec, a world-leading developer and marketer of innovative medical technologies for community and hospital care, announced the introduction of a new, narrower size of AQUACEL® and AQUACEL® Ag Ribbon Dressings with Strengthening Fibers, now available in the U.S. and select European countries for the management of moderate to highly exuding chronic and acute wounds...
Imec European Collaborative Research To Develop Lab-on-chip System For Cheap And Fast Cancer Diagnosis published
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 03:00:00 PDT
Today, at the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference (EMBC) in Buenos Aires (Argentina), imec and its project partners have announced the launch of the European Seventh Framework Project MIRACLE. The MIRACLE project aims to develop an operational lab-on-chip for the isolation and detection of circulating and disseminated tumor cells (CTCs and DTCs) in blood...
Surgeons Drive Plate And Screw Market To Over $170 Million In Japan By 2014 published
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 03:00:00 PDT
According to Millennium Research Group (MRG), the global authority on medical technology market intelligence, the Japanese plate and screw market will be driven by strong surgeon acceptance and adoption, driving this market to over $170 million by 2014...
Ascension Orthopedics Receives FDA Approval For TITAN™ Modular Total Shoulder System published
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 02:00:00 PDT
Ascension Orthopedics, Inc., the world leader in PyroCarbon orthopedic devices, announces FDA approval to market the TITAN™ Modular Total Shoulder System. This newly designed system redefines modularity by providing multiple surgical solutions for shoulder arthroplasty with one implant system. The TITAN Modular Total Shoulder System was developed in collaboration with Joseph Abboud, M...
Asuragen's Clinical Laboratory Launches KRAS And BRAF Mutation Testing published
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 02:00:00 PDT
Asuragen, Inc., a leader in molecular diagnostics and nucleic acid-based pharmacogenomics services, announced that it has launched KRAS and BRAF mutational testing services in its CAP-accredited CLIA laboratory...
Technique That Could Resolve The Problem Of Fake Medicines In Developing Countries published
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 01:00:00 PDT
Counterfeiting of drugs is a huge industry with an annual turnover of more than SEK 500 billion. In Africa the situation is extremely serious. Half of the malaria medication sold there could be ineffective or even harmful. Researchers from Lund and the UK have now developed a technique that could resolve the situation. In two years the researchers hope to have a prototype ready...
New Pump Created For Microneedle Drug-Delivery Patch published
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 01:00:00 PDT
Purdue University researchers have developed a new type of pump for drug-delivery patches that might use arrays of "microneedles" to deliver a wider range of medications than now possible with conventional patches...
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