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31 Jul 2010 at 3:00am
Hotspur Technologies, Inc. announced that it has received FDA clearance for the first three commercial products in its portfolio. These products are based on Hotspur's unique and groundbreaking technology that makes dialysis access interventional and peripheral vascular procedures that open blood vessels less expensive, more efficient, and less invasive for patients...
31 Jul 2010 at 2:00am
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a new fluorescent biosensor that could aid in the development of an important class of drugs that target a crucial class of proteins called G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs)...
30 Jul 2010 at 6:00am
A review of specimen reception and preliminary sample handling using 'Lean' principles has led to improvements in the processing of a daily workload of 11,000 samples at the Leicester Royal Infirmary (LRI) Pathology Department...
30 Jul 2010 at 5:00am
Hospitals are accommodating the increasing number of obese patients by buying larger medical equipment, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports. The new purchases are "eating into capital budgets and driving growth in the plus-sized medical equipment market. ...
30 Jul 2010 at 4:00am
AdvanDx announced that it has received FDA 510(k) clearance for a fast, 90 minutes protocol for its Yeast Traffic Light® PNA FISH® test. The faster protocol reduces the PNA FISH turn-around time from the original 2.5 hours to 90 minutes by reducing PNA probe hybridization from 90 minutes to 30 minutes...
30 Jul 2010 at 4:00am
MediPurpose® announced the launch of its latest safety medical product, the babyLance™ heel incision device for infants. A complement to the company's vastly popular line of SurgiLance® safety lancets, babyLance™ is a safe, easy and effective solution for newborn heel incisions...
30 Jul 2010 at 3:00am
Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX) announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval of two spinal cord stimulation (SCS) leads for use with its Precision Plus™ Spinal Cord Stimulator System, the world's first rechargeable SCS device for the management of chronic pain of the trunk and/or limbs...
29 Jul 2010 at 7:00am
Ahmed H. Zewail, Ph.D., 1999 Chemistry Nobel Laureate and Linus Pauling Professor of Chemistry & Professor of Physics at the California Institute of Technology, has been named winner of the 2011 Priestley Medal by the American Chemical Society (ACS)...
29 Jul 2010 at 7:00am
Ortho Kinematics, a privately held spine diagnostics company focused on revolutionizing spine motion analysis, announced today that it has begun a multi-site clinical study of the KineGraph VMA™, and that the initial 23 patients have been enrolled. The study will help determine which types of patients are best evaluated with KineGraph VMA testing...
29 Jul 2010 at 7:00am
Scientists at the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) and the University of Ottawa (uOttawa) enjoyed a bird's eye view of a chemical bond as it breaks. The making and breaking of chemical bonds underlie the biochemical processes of life itself...
29 Jul 2010 at 5:00am
People with motor neurone disease could live longer and more comfortably if their respiratory problems are identified and managed more effectively. This is what NICE is hoping to achieve from its new clinical guideline on the management of non-invasive mechanical ventilation, out yesterday (28 July)...
29 Jul 2010 at 4:00am
An accurate, faster testing option to identify female carriers and other patients with genetic abnormalities that cause Fragile X Syndrome is now available to physicians in all fifty states with the recent approval in New York. Fragile X is the leading cause of inherited mental retardation and the most common known single gene cause of autism...
29 Jul 2010 at 4:00am
Fifteen-year-old Tressa Scott of Allen hasn't been able to stand up straight for more than a year until now. The Allen teenager grew an inch and a half and gained a dramatically straighter spine after undergoing a complex spinal surgery using a new type of surgical robot available at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Plano...
29 Jul 2010 at 4:00am
American bioengineers have demonstrated that an implanted glucose sensor with potential to transform the management of diabetes has passed a crucial test: the device they developed worked continuously in animals for over a year, without showing signs of "tissue encapsulation" seen in trials with other similar devices...
29 Jul 2010 at 2:00am
Cytori Therapeutics (NASDAQ: CYTX) received expanded European approval (CE Mark) for its Celution® System, a medical device that extracts and separates stem and regenerative cells from a patient's own fat tissue...
