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Treatment Costs Fall And Quality Improves When Patients Use Self-treatment Tools
Categorie : Medical DevicesEncouraging patients to become involved in providing their own care can reduce the cost and improve the quality of long-term medical treatment, say researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital and Massachusetts Institute of Technology in PLoS Medicine this week.Harold DeMonaco and Eric von Hippel ...
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Thu Apr 2007
Cepheid's Xpert(TM) MRSA Test For Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus Receives FDA Clearance
Categorie : Medical DevicesCepheid (Nasdaq: CPHD), a broad-based molecular diagnostics company, today announced it received clearance from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) to market its Xpert(TM) MRSA test, which runs on the GeneXpert(R) System, for the rapid detection of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ...
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Thu Apr 2007
Wheelchairs, Lower Limb Prosthesis, TBI And More
Categorie : Medical DevicesDifferences in cause of death of Washington State veterans who did and did not use Department of Veterans Affairs healthcare services, pg. 825 We compared characteristics and causes of death in 62,080 Washington State veterans who did and did not use Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) healthcare s ...
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Wed Apr 2007
Electrons Caught In The Act Of Tunneling
Categorie : Medical DevicesWe have to climb a mountain in order to conquer it. In quantum physics there is a different way: objects can reach the opposite side of a hill simply by tunnelling through it, instead of laboriously climbing over it. An international team of researchers working with Prof. Ferenc Krausz from the Max ...
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Wed Apr 2007
University Of Queensland Developing A Revolution In Medical Testing Using Nanotechnology
Categorie : Medical DevicesUniversity of Queensland researchers are using nanotechnology to revolutionise medical diagnostic testing of diseases such as cervical cancer. Dr Simon Corrie, from UQ's Australian Institute for Bioengineering & Nanotechnology (AIBN), is part of a team looking at using biomarkers - substances in the ...
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Tue Apr 2007
Smallest Organic Light-Emitters Created By Researchers
Categorie : Medical DevicesTo help light up the nanoworld, a Cornell interdisciplinary team of researchers has produced microscopic "nanolamps" -- light-emitting nanofibers about the size of a virus or the tiniest of bacteria.In a collaboration of experts in organic materials and nanofabrication, researchers have created one ...
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Mon Apr 2007
Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc., Files For FDA Approval Of New Gastric Band For Treatment Of Morbid Obesity
Categorie : Medical DevicesEthicon Endo-Surgery, Inc., a Johnson & Johnson company, today announced that it has submitted a Premarket Approval (PMA) application with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its adjustable gastric band, an implantable device intended to treat morbid obesity. [click link for full article ...
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Mon Apr 2007
One-Stage Urethral Reconstruction For Stricture Recurrence After Urethral Stent Placement
Categorie : Medical DevicesUroToday.com- The Urolume endoprosthesis was developed to provide a simple treatment option for recurrent bulbar stricture disease. It consists of a self-expanding superalloy braided wire mesh cylinder that is placed endoscopically. Despite initial good results and enthusiasm with this device, lon ...
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Mon Apr 2007
Ossur's Proprio Foot Walks Away With 2007 Medical Design Excellence Award - Ossur's Bionic Technology Breaks New Ground For Amputees
Categorie : Medical DevicesOssur, a trusted and global developer of more scientifically advanced prosthetic innovations than any other company in the field, is pleased to announce that its PROPRIO FOOT(TM) is the winner of a 2007 Medical Design Excellence Award. [click link for full article] ...
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Sun Apr 2007
Statistical Analysis Of Complex Data Sets With Robust Statistical Methods
Categorie : Medical DevicesRobust statistical analysis methods capable of dealing with large complex data sets are required more than ever before in almost all branches of science. The European Science Foundation's three-year SACD network, which was completed in December 2006, developed new methods for extracting key structur ...
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Sun Apr 2007
Innovative Pulmonary & PEGylation-based Therapeutic Product Development Drives Business Strategy Of Nektar
Categorie : Medical DevicesInnovative pulmonary and PEGylation-based therapeutic product development is the focus of two new business units recently created at Nektar Therapeutics (Nasdaq: NKTR), the company announced recently. Nektar also announced the creation of a new global communications team to expand and fortify invest ...
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Sat Apr 2007
Innovative Pulmonary & PEGylation-based Therapeutic Product Development Drives Business Strategy Of Nektar
Categorie : Medical DevicesInnovative pulmonary and PEGylation-based therapeutic product development is the focus of two new business units recently created at Nektar Therapeutics (Nasdaq: NKTR), the company announced recently. Nektar also announced the creation of a new global communications team to expand and fortify invest ...
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Sat Apr 2007
Ethicon Endo-Surgery Files For FDA Approval Of New Gastric Band For Treatment Of Morbid Obesity
Categorie : Medical DevicesEthicon Endo-Surgery, Inc., a Johnson & Johnson company, today announced that it has submitted a Premarket Approval (PMA) application with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its adjustable gastric band, an implantable device intended to treat morbid obesity. [click link for full articl ...
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Sat Apr 2007
Ethicon Endo-Surgery Files For FDA Approval Of New Gastric Band For Treatment Of Morbid Obesity
Categorie : Medical DevicesEthicon Endo-Surgery, Inc., a Johnson & Johnson company, today announced that it has submitted a Premarket Approval (PMA) application with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its adjustable gastric band, an implantable device intended to treat morbid obesity. [click link for full articl ...
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Sat Apr 2007
Mayo Clinic And IBM Score Significant Advance In Real-time Medical Imaging
Categorie : Medical DevicesCollaborators from Mayo Clinic and IBM have exploited parallel computer architecture and memory bandwidth to dramatically speed the processing of 3-D medical images. The advance significantly aids image registration -- the computer-enhanced alignment in three-dimensional space of two medical images ...
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Fri Apr 2007
Unveiling Of Neurosurgery Robot April 17
Categorie : Medical DevicesThe world's first MRI-compatible robot for brain surgery has been developed by a research team from the University of Calgary / Calgary Health Region. The unveiling of neuroArm will take place at 9:30 am (Mountain Time), Tuesday, April 17.The six-year, multimillion-dollar project is led by U of C Fa ...
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Fri Apr 2007
PneuStep: MRI-Safe Motor Makes Robotic Biopsies Possible
Categorie : Medical DevicesEngineers at the Johns Hopkins Urology Robotics Lab report the invention of a motor without metal or electricity that can safely power remote-controlled robotic medical devices used for cancer biopsies and therapies guided by magnetic resonance imaging. The motor that drives the devices can be so pr ...
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Thu Apr 2007
PneuStep -- MRI-safe Motor Makes Robotic Biopsies Possible
Categorie : Medical DevicesEngineers at the Johns Hopkins Urology Robotics Lab report the invention of a motor without metal or electricity that can safely power remote-controlled robotic medical devices used for cancer biopsies and therapies guided by magnetic resonance imaging. The motor that drives the devices can be so pr ...
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Thu Apr 2007
Medison Recognized For Growth In European Ultrasound Market
Categorie : Medical DevicesMEDISON Co., Ltd. (CEO: Jae-Bum Choi, www.medison.com) announced Mar. 20,2007 that it had won the 2007 Frost & Sullivan Competitive Strategy Leadership Award in March in recognition of its strategic initiatives to establish itself as a leading enterprise in the European ultrasound market. The Award ...
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Wed Apr 2007
Does The Addition Of Paclitaxel To Bare Metal Mesh Stents Improve Outcomes In Experimental Ureteral Obstruction Model In The Pig?
Categorie : Medical DevicesUroToday.com - Despite developments in endoscopic urology, the treatment of extrinsic ureteral obstruction can create a great dilemma to the urologist. The methods currently available for management include retrograde or antegrade placement of ureteral stents, or balloon dilation of sites of obstru ...
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Wed Apr 2007
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