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| Mon, 21 May 2012 00:00:00 PDT Minimally Invasive "Parachute" Device Could Transform Treatment Options For Heart Failure Patients University Hospitals (UH) Case Medical Center and CardioKinetix Inc., a medical device company pioneering a catheter-based treatment for heart failure, has announced promising results for the first-of-its-kind catheter-based Parachute? Ventricular Partitioning Device, a Percutaneous Ventricular Restoration Therapy (PVRT) technology for patients with ischemic heart failure... Click here to read this news article. |
| Mon, 21 May 2012 00:00:00 PDT New Recommendations On Devices, Drugs And Diagnosis: ESC Heart Failure Guidelines New recommendations on devices, drugs and diagnosis in heart failure were launched at the Heart Failure Congress 2012, 19-22 May, in Belgrade, Serbia, and published in the European Heart Journal... Click here to read this news article. |
| Sun, 20 May 2012 00:00:00 PDT Improved Tool In The Fight Against Tuberculosis A tiny filter could have a big impact around the world in the fight against tuberculosis. Using the traditional microscope-based diagnosis method as a starting point, a University of Florida lung disease specialist and colleagues in Brazil have devised a way to detect more cases of the bacterial infection... Click here to read this news article. |
| Fri, 18 May 2012 01:00:00 PDT Cheap New Paper-Based Diagnostic Test For Diabetes With epidemics of Type 2 diabetes looming in rural India, China and other areas of the world where poverty limits the availability of health care, scientists are reporting development of an inexpensive and easy-to-use urine test ideally suited for such areas... Click here to read this news article. |
| Thu, 17 May 2012 01:00:00 PDT Groundbreaking Advance In Medical Diagnostics Researchers have created an ultrasensitive biosensor that could open up new opportunities for early detection of cancer and "personalized medicine" tailored to the specific biochemistry of individual patients. The device, which could be several hundred times more sensitive than other biosensors, combines the attributes of two distinctly different types of sensors, said Muhammad A... Click here to read this news article. |
| Wed, 16 May 2012 08:00:00 PDT Keeping Ahead In The Medical Device Sector "Medical device industry executives often develop products that are deemed safe and effective by the FDA, but that do not sell as they are not reimbursable," says Donald DeLauder, Executive Director - Corporate Innovation, Bayer Radiology and Interventional. They must spend more time on developing their products, he adds... Click here to read this news article. |
| Wed, 16 May 2012 08:00:00 PDT Optimizing Process Management In Medical Device Manufacturing Medical device manufacturing executives are currently challenged with getting products to market faster; however with increased FDA regulatory requirements and validations, they must ensure that the manufacturing processes are robust, says William J. Bergen, President & Chief Executive Officer, MicroGroup. Effective and timely communication at each stage of production is crucial, he adds... Click here to read this news article. |
| Wed, 16 May 2012 01:00:00 PDT Key Genes And Prototype Predictive Test Identified For Schizophrenia An Indiana University-led research team, along with a group of national and international collaborators, has identified and prioritized a comprehensive group of genes most associated with schizophrenia that together can generate a score indicating whether an individual is at higher or lower risk of developing the disease... Click here to read this news article. |
| Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 PDT What Is An Ultrasound? An ultrasound scan, also referred to as a sonogram, diagnostic sonography, and ultrasonography, is a device that uses high frequency sound waves to create an image of some part of the inside of the body, such as the stomach, liver, heart, tendons, muscles, joints and blood vessels. Experts say that as sound waves, rather than radiation are used, ultrasound scans are safe... Click here to read this news article. |
| Tue, 15 May 2012 04:00:00 PDT Any And All Toxic Materials Identified By "Dip Chip" Technology On-The-Go From man-made toxic chemicals such as industrial by-products to poisons that occur naturally, a water or food supply can be easily contaminated. And for every level of toxic material ingested, there is some level of bodily response, ranging from minor illness to painful certain death. Biosensors have long been used to safeguard against exposure to toxic chemicals... Click here to read this news article. |
| Tue, 15 May 2012 02:00:00 PDT Medical Device Controls Acute Inflammation, May Prevent Sepsis The body's natural inflammatory response is an essential reaction to injury and infection. When acute inflammation escalates out of control, such as in sepsis, it causes nearly 10% of deaths in the U.S. and more than $17 billion in healthcare costs each year... Click here to read this news article. |
| Tue, 15 May 2012 02:00:00 PDT Immune System Model Created To Predict Vaccine Efficacy And Safety Vaccine testing and development is an extremely lengthy and complex process that costs billions of dollars every year. In an effort to dramatically improve the speed and success of vaccine research and development, researchers have created an innovative biomimetic model of the human immune system known as the MIMIC® system... Click here to read this news article. |
| Tue, 15 May 2012 02:00:00 PDT New UV Disinfection Device Research from North Carolina State University will allow the development of energy-efficient LED devices that use ultraviolet (UV) light to kill pathogens such as bacteria and viruses. The technology has a wide array of applications ranging from drinking-water treatment to sterilizing surgical tools... Click here to read this news article. |
| Tue, 15 May 2012 00:00:00 PDT Automated External Defibrillators Rarely Close To Locations Of Public Cardiac Arrests More than 75 percent of cardiac arrest victims are stricken too far away from an automated external defibrillator for the lifesaving device to be obtained quickly enough to offer the best chance at saving their lives, according to new research from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania that was presented at the annual meeting of Society for Academic Emergency Medicine... Click here to read this news article. |
| Tue, 15 May 2012 00:00:00 PDT Novel Self-Adhesive Device To Diagnose Irregular Heartbeat A study conducted at Scripps Health has found that a novel new heart monitoring device helped emergency room patients avoid unnecessary follow-up care... Click here to read this news article. |
| Mon, 14 May 2012 01:00:00 PDT Vision Loss Due To Degenerative Eye Diseases May Be Restored By New Type Of Retinal Prosthesis Using tiny solar-panel-like cells surgically placed underneath the retina, scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine have devised a system that may someday restore sight to people who have lost vision because of certain types of degenerative eye diseases... Click here to read this news article. |
| Mon, 14 May 2012 00:00:00 PDT Unsedated Transnasal Endoscopy To Screen For Esophageal Disease Is Safe And Feasible Researchers report that unsedated transnasal endoscopy is a feasible, safe, and well-tolerated method to screen for esophageal disease in a primary care population. This study is the largest reported experience with transnasal endoscopy in the United States... Click here to read this news article. |
| Sun, 13 May 2012 00:00:00 PDT Gene Expression By Ultraviolet Imagine being able to control genetic expression by flipping a light switch. Researchers at North Carolina State University are using light-activated molecules to turn gene expression on and off. Their method enables greater precision when studying gene function, and could lead to targeted therapies for diseases like cancer... Click here to read this news article. |
| Sat, 12 May 2012 00:00:00 PDT Predicting The Risk Of Sudden Cardiac Arrest Using Novel Imaging Could Better Identify Patients Who Would Benefit From ICDs New research from the University at Buffalo suggests that cardiologists may have a new way to identify patients who are at the highest risk of sudden cardiac arrest, and the most likely to benefit from receiving an implantable cardiac defibrillator (ICD). ICDs are used to prevent sudden cardiac arrest in patients with advanced heart disease, but many patients' devices are never triggered... Click here to read this news article. |
| Fri, 11 May 2012 01:00:00 PDT A Killer Of Superbugs Better than antibiotics, it is being used in contact lenses to prevent infections and biomedical products are the next stage The superbugs have met their match. Conceived at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), it comes in the form of a coating which has a magnetic-like feature that attracts bacteria and kills them without the need for antibiotics... Click here to read this news article. |
| Fri, 11 May 2012 00:00:00 PDT New Diagnostic Approaches May Help Assess Brain Function In Unconscious, Brain-Injured Patients Disorders of consciousness such as coma or a vegetative state caused by severe brain injury are poorly understood and their diagnosis has relied mainly on patient responses and measures of brain activity... Click here to read this news article. |
| Fri, 11 May 2012 00:00:00 PDT Leading Medical Societies Collaborate To Offer Criteria For Rational And Timely Use Of Cardiac Catheterization Cardiac catheterization - an invasive diagnostic procedure that allows doctors to see the vessels and arteries leading to the heart and its chambers - is performed thousands of times in the United States each year and, in some cases, can be the best method to diagnose heart problems... Click here to read this news article. |
| Thu, 10 May 2012 01:00:00 PDT Designing Better Prosthetic Limbs People walking normally, women tottering in high heels and ostriches strutting all exert the same forces on the ground despite very differently-shaped feet, according to research funded by the Wellcome Trust and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council... Click here to read this news article. |
| Thu, 10 May 2012 01:00:00 PDT Vibration Powers Portable Diagnostics As medical researchers and engineers try to shrink diagnostics to fit in a person's pocket, one question is how to easily move and mix small samples of liquid. University of Washington researchers have built and patented a surface that, when shaken, moves drops along certain paths to conduct medical or environmental tests... Click here to read this news article. |
| Thu, 10 May 2012 01:00:00 PDT 'Diabetes Insulin Guidance System' Automatically Updates Weekly Insulin Dosage For Better Glycemic Control, Fewer Hypoglycemic Events Newly published results from a clinical study of the Diabetes Insulin Guidance System (DIGS?), under development by Hygieia, Inc., demonstrate DIGS' potential to improve blood glucose control for insulin-using patients with type 2 or type 1 diabetes. DIGS automatically adjusted insulin dosage based on each individual's reported blood glucose results... Click here to read this news article. |
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