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Leap Medical secures seed financing to develop innovative technology for detection of brain injuries

Leap Medical Inc., a privately held Medical Device company, announced today that it has successfully secured seed financing in the amount of $1.025 million (Canadian dollars) to develop its innovative technology for the rapid detection of brain injuries and infection.

26 Mar 2010

Animal study shows chymase inhibitors could advance treatments for high BP and heart failure

Millions of patients with high blood pressure and heart failure take a class of drugs known as ACE (angiotensin-converting enzyme) inhibitors. These drugs prevent the body from processing angiotensin II, a hormone that constricts blood vessels.

26 Mar 2010

FDA approves Riverain Medical's Softview Enhanced Chest Imaging technology

Riverain Medical, a leading image enhancement and computer-aided detection company dedicated to providing physicians with tools to assist in image interpretation, announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the SoftView Enhanced Chest Imaging technology.

25 Mar 2010

$Osteoporosis drugs falsely implicated in rare thigh bone fractures, say new reports$

Osteoporosis drugs falsely implicated in rare thigh bone fractures, say new reports

Osteoporosis is a disease of the bones usually affecting elderly women and causes the bones to become brittle and easily breakable. Since last two years some alarming reports of women on drugs for therapy of this disease have come to notice. These reports show that these drugs intended for therapy may result in rare and serious fractures of their thigh bones where the bones break clean or may splinter. Often these fractures were not associated with any fall or impact. Moreover some of the sufferers are middle aged women in their 50’s who do not have full blown osteoporosis, a condition known as pre-osteoporosis or osteopenia.

25 Mar 2010

Axis Surgical's EC-MOR facilitated real-time visualization of anterior spine column during surgery

Axis Surgical Technologies, Inc., reports the first evaluation of the C-MOR™ Visualization Device in a spine procedure. The C-MOR™ is a self-contained portable direct-imaging tool that functions much like a standard arthroscopic tower, yet at a fraction of both the size and cost. The handheld lightweight device offers practitioners the convenience of intraoperative visualization and complete operability in one hand. The C-MOR™ comprises a distinctive and cost-effective imaging device offering benefits to medical practitioners in a variety of applications, including lengthy surgeries requiring constant re-evaluation of the operating field over the course of the surgery.

25 Mar 2010

FDA approves Custom Spine's anterior cervical interbody device

Custom Spine announced today that it has received FDA clearance to market PATHWAY ACIF, an anterior cervical interbody spacer. This cervical interbody device compliments the company's low-profile anterior cervical plate system, Regent ACP, which was released this past November.

25 Mar 2010

Congressional approved health care reform fails to address flawed physician reimbursement formula

In a survey published by the North American Spine Society (NASS), as many as 24 percent of spine care physicians participating in Medicare indicated they will no longer participate in the program if the mandated reductions in Medicare reimbursement to physicians occur later this year.

24 Mar 2010

New MIS Retractor System from Aesculap Implant Systems

Aesculap Implant Systems, LLC is pleased to announce the launch of the Spyder Minimally Invasive Spinal Retractor System.

23 Mar 2010

Shareholders of Global Health Partner AB invited to attend Annual General Meeting

The shareholders of Global Health Partner AB are hereby invited to attend the Annual General Meeting to be held on Thursday 29 April 2010 at 4 p.m. on SE Banken’s premises at Östra Hamngatan 24, 405 04 Gothenburg.

23 Mar 2010

Treatments for preventing hamstring injuries

A brand new systematic review into the research of hamstring injuries has revealed that not enough is known about the effectiveness of current prevention methods for one of the most common sports injuries.

22 Mar 2010

Medical Facilities' service revenue increases from $199.4M in 2008 to $207.4M in 2009

Medical Facilities Corporation, today reported its financial results for the three and twelve-month periods ended December 31, 2009. All amounts are expressed in U.S. dollars unless indicated otherwise.

22 Mar 2010

Bovie Medical receives FDA marketing clearance for BOSS bipolar sintered steel coagulation device

Bovie Medical Corporation, a manufacturer and marketer of electrosurgical products, today announced the Company received clearance from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market its proprietary BOSS™ bipolar sintered steel coagulation device. The BOSS™ is the latest device based on Bovie’s saline enhanced sintered steel technology.

19 Mar 2010

Interfering with dickkopf 1 protein may help in controlling inflammatory bowel diseases

Signals released by immune cells during a bout of inflammatory bowel disease interfere with intestinal cells' ability to regenerate. Yet people with inflammatory bowel diseases have a significantly higher risk of developing colon cancer: a hyper-activation of growth in those same intestinal cells.

19 Mar 2010

Varian Medical Systems to showcase radiotherapy and radiosurgery solutions at medical events in Asia

Varian Medical Systems, Inc., the world's leading manufacturer of medical technology for treating cancer with radiotherapy and radiosurgery, will showcase its technology at two medical events in Asia during the month of March:

18 Mar 2010

Vycor Medical's VBAS medical retraction device advances neurosurgical technology

Vycor Medical, Inc., a medical device company that designs, develops and markets next generation neurosurgery retraction devices, today announced its ViewSite Brain Access System (VBAS) medical retraction device continues to gain ground. This "BioTech Breakthrough" - with the potential to impact several hundreds of thousands of patients and throngs of surgeons and medical facilities worldwide - is among a pioneering new breed of cost-reducing surgical devices designed to enhance performance, quality of life and surgical results.

18 Mar 2010

Poll: Use of booster seats drops sharply to 40% by age 8

All 50 states have some type of child safety seat law, 28 of which require kids to use child safety seats or booster seats through age 8 to reduce the risk of injuries in car crashes. But the latest C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health finds that while nearly all parents report their kids, ages 5 and younger, use booster seats or car seats while riding in vehicles, use of booster seats drops sharply to 40 percent by age 8.

18 Mar 2010

New chemotherapy agents improve survival time for patients with metastatic colorectal cancer

New chemotherapy agents appear associated with improvements in survival time for patients with metastatic colorectal cancer but at substantial cost.

17 Mar 2010

Patent applications continue to alter medical landscape to improve patient care

Over the past 40 years, more than 2,400 patents and patent applications-pioneering modern medicine with the devices and drugs that advance minimally invasive treatments-have been filed by members of the Society of Interventional Radiology.

17 Mar 2010

Patient enrollment in Spinal Restoration' Phase III study of Biostat System now underway

Spinal Restoration, Inc. announced today that patient enrollment in the company’s Phase III study of the Biostat System for the treatment of discogenic chronic low back pain is now underway. The study, which will be conducted at 15 U.S. clinical sites, is one of only a few multi-center, randomized, blinded, placebo-controlled trials of a nonsurgical treatment for discogenic low back pain ever to be conducted.

16 Mar 2010

Enrollment in patient study to evaluate Magellan DART System for Annular Repair completed

Magellan Spine Technologies, Inc. today announced it had completed enrollment in a twenty patient study to evaluate the Magellan DART (Disc Annular Repair Technology) System for Annular Repair following lumbar discectomy procedures. This first study demonstrates evidence that the DART technology is safe and patients implanted with the DART have excellent outcomes approaching one year follow-up.

16 Mar 2010

Spine News and Research

Leap Medical secures seed financing to develop innovative technology for detection of brain injuries

Animal study shows chymase inhibitors could advance treatments for high BP and heart failure

FDA approves Riverain Medical's Softview Enhanced Chest Imaging technology

Osteoporosis drugs falsely implicated in rare thigh bone fractures, say new reports

Axis Surgical's EC-MOR facilitated real-time visualization of anterior spine column during surgery

FDA approves Custom Spine's anterior cervical interbody device

Congressional approved health care reform fails to address flawed physician reimbursement formula

New MIS Retractor System from Aesculap Implant Systems

Shareholders of Global Health Partner AB invited to attend Annual General Meeting

Treatments for preventing hamstring injuries

Medical Facilities' service revenue increases from $199.4M in 2008 to $207.4M in 2009

Bovie Medical receives FDA marketing clearance for BOSS bipolar sintered steel coagulation device

Interfering with dickkopf 1 protein may help in controlling inflammatory bowel diseases

Varian Medical Systems to showcase radiotherapy and radiosurgery solutions at medical events in Asia

Vycor Medical's VBAS medical retraction device advances neurosurgical technology

Poll: Use of booster seats drops sharply to 40% by age 8

New chemotherapy agents improve survival time for patients with metastatic colorectal cancer

Patent applications continue to alter medical landscape to improve patient care

Patient enrollment in Spinal Restoration' Phase III study of Biostat System now underway

Enrollment in patient study to evaluate Magellan DART System for Annular Repair completed

Bringing real-time analytics to downstream bioprocess monitoring

Designing fluidic architecture for scalable diagnostic platforms

Evaluating new approaches for rare disease genomics

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