Archive for the ‘Medical Devices’ Category
Friday, May 16th, 2008
In the hope of reaching a formerly untreatable patient group, clinician-researchers from NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center are leading the minimally invasive Phase II EVEREST clinical trial with the aim of treating malfunctioning heart valves in the elderly. Many elderly people are too old, too weak, or too debilitated by ...
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
Leading into Heart Rhythm 2008, the pre-eminent worldwide gathering of cardiologists specializing in electrophysiology, Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE: MDT) announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of the first wave of cardiac rhythm disease management therapies under the new Vision 3D™ portfolio, which will comprise a full line of ...
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
Lenses in optical devices are kept in place by adhesives. This can cause problems when the microscopes and cameras are employed inside a vacuum, as the adhesives may release gases that contaminate the lenses. One alternative is to solder them instead.When cameras and microscopes are placed in a vacuum, their ...
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
Protein crystallographers have only scratched the surface of the human proteins important for drug interactions because of difficulties crystallizing the molecules for synchrotron x-ray diffraction.Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have devised a way to eliminate the need for crystallization by using lasers to align ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Cardiac Dimensions®, Inc. announced the first implant of the CARILLON™ Mitral Contour System™ as part of its new TITAN™ study. The procedure was performed in Neuss Germany by Professor Dr. med. Michael Haude. TITAN™ is the latest clinical effort initiated by Cardiac Dimensions®. The study, which will be conducted in ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Devices/Technology Hospitals in the US and Europe are increasingly ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Devices/Technology A test developed by Australian scientists which promises ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
The results of new research on blood pressure announced today reveal that despite Irish people getting their blood pressure checked, the majority of them do not know what their reading is (1). The research was commissioned by ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
CryoLife, Inc. (NYSE: CRY), a biomaterials, medical device and tissue processing company, announced the first implantation of the combination aortic-mitral allograft heart valve in a patient at the Cleveland Clinic. The surgery was performed by Dr. Jose Navia, a cardiac surgeon with the Heart and Vascular Institute at ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Uroplasty, Inc. (Amex: UPI), a medical device company that develops, manufactures and markets innovative proprietary products for the treatment of voiding dysfunction, announced today that Kenneth M. Peters, M.D., chair of the Department of Urology at Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Michigan, will present preliminary data from the ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Siemens has unveiled a new ultrasound system which combines the flexibility, usability and mobility of a laptop, with the excellent image quality of a full conventional ultrasound system. Designed to take ultrasound scans anywhere, the ACUSON P50 can easily be carried to locations within the hospital environment, such as cardiology, ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Medinol is proud to announce that it has received CE Mark for its Presillion(TM) CoCr Coronary Stent, enabling physicians to treat coronary artery lesions with a technologically innovative flexible closed cell design stent.Presillion(TM) preserves the superb scaffolding the unprecedented balance of flexibility and conformability identified with ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
New conduction patterns have been identified in the vertebrate cardiacconduction system which may lead to novel therapies for sudden cardiacarrest, according to an article released on May 12, 2008 in theopen-access journal PLoS Biology, a part of thePublic Library of Science family of journals. Cardiac arrhythmia, when there is irregular ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Royal Philips Electronics today announced volume shipments of a new version of its Xcelera multimodality cardiology image management, analysis and reporting solution. The new Xcelera R2.2 offers enhanced functionality and greater workflow efficiency to approximately 3000 Philips cardiology informatics customers around the world. Xcelera R2.2 is a powerful and secure ...
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