Breaking news on medical devices
Heartbeat Vibrations Power Pacemakers published
Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PST
Though pacemakers require only small amounts of energy (about 1 millionth of a Watt), their batteries have to be replaced periodically, which means multiple surgeries for patients...
Brain Blood Flow And Oxygen Monitored By First-Of-Its-Kind Head Patch published
Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PST
A research team led by investigators at Mayo Clinic in Florida has found that a small device worn on a patient's brow can be useful in monitoring stroke patients in the hospital. The device measures blood oxygen, similar to a pulse oximeter, which is clipped onto a finger...
Device Provides A Platform For Viewing Cancer Cells And Other Macromolecules In Dynamic, Life-Sustaining Liquid Environments published
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:00:00 PST
A photograph of a polar bear in captivity, no matter how sharp the resolution, can never reveal as much about behavior as footage of that polar bear in its natural habitat. The behavior of cells and molecules can prove even more elusive...
Protein Structures Offer Clues To Breast Cancer, Alzheimer's Treatment, Prevention published
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:00:00 PST
Using some of the most powerful nuclear magnetic resonance equipment available, researchers at the University of California, Davis, are making discoveries about the shape and structure of biological molecules - potentially leading to new ways to treat or prevent diseases such as breast cancer and Alzheimer's disease...
Portable Recording Of Vital Signs Via "Life And Activity Monitor" published
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:00:00 PST
Researchers have developed a type of wearable, non-invasive electronic device that can monitor vital signs such as heart rate and respiration at the same time it records a person's activity level, opening new opportunities for biomedical research, diagnostics and patient care...
Alzheimer's-Related Protein In Brains Of Healthy Adults May Shed Light On Earliest Signs Of Disease published
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PST
Researchers from the Center for Vital Longevity at the University of Texas at Dallas and UT Southwestern Medical Center have completed a large-scale neuroimaging study of healthy adults from age 30 to 90 that measured beta-amyloid protein - a substance whose toxic buildup in the brain is a diagnostic marker for Alzheimer's disease...
Are CT Scans For Dizziness In ER Cost-Effective? published
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:00:00 PST
Henry Ford Hospital researchers have found that conducting CT scans in the emergency department (ED) for individuals experiencing dizziness may not be cost effective. The researchers discovered that less than 1% of CT scans carried out in the ED showed a more serious underlying cause for dizziness (stroke or intracranial bleeding), which required intervention...
Medical Device Industry And FDA Reach Provisional Fees Agreement published
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:00:00 PST
An agreement, in principle, regarding proposed recommendations for the new reauthorization of a medical device user fee program, has been agreed by the FDA and the Medical Device Industry. If the recommendations go through, the FDA would be authorized to collect $595 million from the medical device industry in user fees for a five-year period, with adjustments according to annual inflation rates...
Researchers Develop Novel Drug Delivery System published
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PST
Long duration, controllable drug delivery is of wide interest to medical researchers and clinicians, particularly those seeking to improve treatment for patients with chronic pain or to prevent cancer recurrence after surgery...
Liquid Lasers May Better Detect Genes Linked To Cancer published
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PST
Using a liquid laser, University of Michigan researchers have developed a better way to detect the slight genetic mutations that might predispose a person to a particular type of cancer or other diseases. Their results are published in the current edition of the German journal Angewandte Chemie. This work could advance understanding of the genetic basis of diseases...
Brain Activity Can Show Scientists Words We Are "Thinking" published
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PST
A study conducted by researchers at the University of California, Berkley, and published in PLoS Biology reveals neuroscientists' new breakthrough research on how they will be able to understand the thoughts of patients without actually hearing them speak. This will be incredibly helpful when treating patients who are unable to speak after strokes, paralysis, or even possibly during comas...
Decoding Brain Waves Could Lead To Communication With Patients Unable To Speak published
Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:00:00 PST
Neuroscientists may one day be able to eavesdrop on the constant, internal monologs that run through our minds, or hear the imagined speech of a stroke or a locked-in patient with inability to speak, according to researchers at the University of California, Berkeley...
Improved Detection Of Colorectal Cancer By Flexible Sigmoidoscopy published
Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:00:00 PST
Repeated screening by flexible sigmoidoscopy (FSG) increased the detection of colorectal cancer or advanced adenoma in women by one-fourth and in men by one-third, according to a study published Jan. 31 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute...
Research At Rice University Leads To Nanotube-Based Device For Communication, Security, Sensing published
Tue, 31 Jan 2012 02:00:00 PST
Researchers at Rice University are using carbon nanotubes as the critical component of a robust terahertz polarizer that could accelerate the development of new security and communication devices, sensors and non-invasive medical imaging systems as well as fundamental studies of low-dimensional condensed matter systems...
Cyberknife Radiation Successful For Treating Tigeminal Neuralgia published
Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:00:00 PST
A small study published online in the Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery shows that a technique in which highly concentrated beams of radiation are used, known as Cyberknife, can relieve the stabbing pain of the facial nerve condition trigeminal neuralgia...
Medical Sensor Powered By The Rhythmic Action Of Rap Music published
Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST
The driving bass rhythm of rap music can be harnessed to power a new type of miniature medical sensor designed to be implanted in the body. Acoustic waves from music, particularly rap, were found to effectively recharge the pressure sensor. Such a device might ultimately help to treat people stricken with aneurisms or incontinence due to paralysis...
Patient Care Could Be Revolutionized By Diagnostic Brain Tumor Test published
Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST
Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have developed what they believe to be the first clinical application of a new imaging technique to diagnose brain tumors. The unique test could preclude the need for surgery in patients whose tumors are located in areas of the brain too dangerous to biopsy...
Creation Of New Atomic X-Ray Laser Offers Potential For New Medicines, Devices And Materials published
Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST
Lab scientists and international collaborators have created the shortest, purest X-ray laser pulses ever achieved, fulfilling a 45-year-old prediction and ultimately opening the door to new medicines, devices and materials...
Side Effect Severity Predicted In Head And Neck Cancer Patients By Thermal Imaging To Detect Oral Temperature Changes published
Fri, 27 Jan 2012 04:00:00 PST
Slight temperature increases of the oral mucus membranes early in a head and neck cancer patient's chemotherapy and radiation therapy (chemoradiotherapy) treatment is a predictor of severe mucositis later in treatment, according to a study presented at the Multidisciplinary Head and Neck Cancer Symposium, sponsored by AHNS, ASCO, ASTRO and SNM...
An Earlier Sign Of Autism In The Brain published
Fri, 27 Jan 2012 01:00:00 PST
In their first year of life, babies who will go on to develop autism already show different brain responses when someone looks at or away from them...
Patient-Centered Approach To Replacing Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators Suggested By Cardiologists published
Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST
More than 100,000 implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) are implanted in the United States annually, fully a quarter of those are generator replacements simply because the battery is depleted. But are all those replacements necessary and should they actually be performed? Writing in the Jan...
In Battle To Prevent Pandemic Infection, Clinical Technique Sets New Standard For Speed published
Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST
A new diagnosis technique developed by researchers at the RIKEN Omics Science Center (OSC) has succeeded in detecting influenza virus infection in only 40 minutes and with one hundred times the sensitivity of conventional methods...
Engineered Bacteria Effectively Target Tumors, Enabling Tumor Imaging Potential In Mice published
Thu, 26 Jan 2012 02:00:00 PST
Tumor-targeted bioluminescent bacteria have been shown for the first time to provide accurate 3D images of tumors in mice, further advancing the potential for targeted cancer drug delivery, according to a study published in the Jan. 25 issue of the online journal PLoS ONE...
New Means For Creating Elastic Conductors Has Implications For Medical Devices published
Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST
Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new method for creating elastic conductors made of carbon nanotubes, which will contribute to large-scale production of the material for use in a new generation of elastic electronic devices...
Better Treatment And Fewer Costs With New Detection Method For UTI-Causing Bacteria published
Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST
A new method for identifying bacteria that cause urinary tract infections (UTIs) will lead to much faster, more effective treatment as well as a reduction in costs. The procedure, described in the Journal of Medical Microbiology, could eventually be used for the identification of micro-organisms in other bodily fluids, including blood and spinal fluid...
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