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Researchers made important step towards creating medical nanorobots

Researchers from the Institute of General Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences and MIPT have made an important step towards creating medical nanorobots.

20 Aug 2014

New device tells us state of conservation of poultry and detects malformations

Researchers of the Universitat Politècnica de València have developed a new device that tells us the state of conservation of poultry and detects malformations analyzing its electrical properties. It is a non-invasive system that would help to guarantee the quality of the final product before it is delivered to the consumer.

20 Aug 2014

New web-based program helps to determine deadly form of brain cancer

A new web-based program developed by University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center researchers will provide a simple, free way for healthcare providers to determine which brain tumor cases require testing for a genetic mutation.

20 Aug 2014

Chemical engineers devise new implantable tissue scaffold coated with bone growth factors

MIT chemical engineers have devised a new implantable tissue scaffold coated with bone growth factors that are released slowly over a few weeks. When applied to bone injuries or defects, this coated scaffold induces the body to rapidly form new bone that looks and behaves just like the original tissue.

20 Aug 2014

Researchers use optical tweezers to measure how strongly parasites adhere to red blood cells

Malaria is a life-threatening disease caused by a parasite that invades one red blood cell after another. Little is known about this infection process because it happens so quickly, potentially explaining why there is currently no approved malaria vaccine.

20 Aug 2014

New program for OneBusAway app makes buses more user-friendly for blind riders

It's a daily routine for many transit riders in the Seattle area: Pull out your smartphone, check the OneBusAway app, then decide whether you need to sprint to the bus stop or can afford that last sip of coffee.

19 Aug 2014

Cellular Research announces start of early access program for Precise assays

Cellular Research announced today the start of an early access program for its Precise assays and is currently making the product available to 10 sites.

19 Aug 2014

Cardiva Medical closes private equity financing and senior secured facility with GE Capital

Cardiva Medical, Inc. announced today that it has closed the first two tranches of a $16.5 million Series 3 private equity financing and a $12.5 million senior secured facility with GE Capital.

19 Aug 2014

St. Elizabeth Hospital meets Meaningful Use Stage 2 criteria with MEDITECH technology

Defying the national trend of only 1.5 percent of eligible hospitals attesting in 2014, St. Elizabeth Hospital in Enumclaw, Wash. achieved Meaningful Use Stage 2 using MEDITECH technology. St. Elizabeth accomplished Stage 2 with information technology (IT) support from Engage, a division of Inland Northwest Health Services.

19 Aug 2014

Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics creates new online program to improve quality care for patients

The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics has created a unique web application platform with tools to help registered dietitian nutritionists provide the highest-quality care for patients and clients, track outcomes of their interventions, conduct research in important areas of nutrition science and contribute to a national quality registry.

19 Aug 2014

Implantable heart devices provide same substantial survival benefit, regardless of race

Racial and ethnic minorities who receive implantable devices to treat heart failure derive the same substantial survival benefit from these therapies as white patients, new UCLA-led research shows.

19 Aug 2014

Lung Cancer Alliance praises NCI's new ALCHEMIST trial

Lung Cancer Alliance (LCA) President & CEO, Laurie Fenton Ambrose praised the National Cancer Institute's (NCI) new trial, launched today, that will focus on the prevention of recurrence in two specific types of lung cancers when they are caught at early stage and surgically removed.

19 Aug 2014

EMP introduces Guardian Angel Personal Safety Device for emergency responders

Emergency Medical Products (EMP), a leading distributor of emergency medical equipment and supplies, announced the addition of the Guardian Angel Personal Safety Device to its growing line of medical supplies and equipment.

19 Aug 2014

ASAHI INTECC, Boston Scientific to develop new, differentiated FFR wire

Boston Scientific Corporation and ASAHI INTECC (Securities Code 7747, Second Section, Tokyo and Nagoya Stock Exchange) have formalized plans to develop a new, differentiated fractional flow reserve (FFR) wire.

19 Aug 2014

Italy's amateur soccer league selects Cardiac Science as certified AED supplier

Italian soccer leagues have been at the forefront of promoting automated external defibrillators (AEDs) at sporting events ever since 2012 when Piermario Morosini, a 25-year-old midfielder for Livorno, suffered sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) during a match and died.

19 Aug 2014

CEOLIVE.TV interviews BioElectronics expert as part of its Executive Interview Series

BioElectronics Corporation, the maker of advanced consumer medical devices said that its EVP Dr. Deepak Kotak was interviewed by CEOLIVE.TV as part of its Executive Interview Series.

19 Aug 2014

BGRF scientists propose Oncofinder method for accurate analysis of gene expression data

Scientists from the Biogerontology Research Foundation (BGRF), a UK-based charity founded to support ageing research and address the challenges of a rapidly ageing population, propose a new concept for signalome-wide analysis of changes in intracellular pathways, called OncoFinder, which allows for accurate and robust cross-platform analysis of gene expression data.

19 Aug 2014

Doctors test device designed to 'turn off' cluster headaches

For those suffering excruciating pain from cluster headaches, relief may soon be available from an investigational device being studied in a national multicenter clinical trial. Recently, doctors at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center performed the first surgery in the United States to insert a neurostimulator to provide relief from cluster headaches, which are more painful than migraines.

19 Aug 2014

Using NMR to study protein motion: an interview with Fabien Ferrage, École Normale Supérieure, Paris

Can you give us a brief overview of the work you presented at ENC 2014 (Experimental Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Conference)?

From Bruker BioSpin Group 19 Aug 2014

MGH-developed microfluidic device may help study key steps involved in development of tumor metastasis

A microfluidic device developed at Massachusetts General Hospital may help study key steps in the process by which cancer cells break off from a primary tumor to invade other tissues and form metastases.

19 Aug 2014

Device / Technology News

Researchers made important step towards creating medical nanorobots

New device tells us state of conservation of poultry and detects malformations

New web-based program helps to determine deadly form of brain cancer

Chemical engineers devise new implantable tissue scaffold coated with bone growth factors

Researchers use optical tweezers to measure how strongly parasites adhere to red blood cells

New program for OneBusAway app makes buses more user-friendly for blind riders

Cellular Research announces start of early access program for Precise assays

Cardiva Medical closes private equity financing and senior secured facility with GE Capital

St. Elizabeth Hospital meets Meaningful Use Stage 2 criteria with MEDITECH technology

Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics creates new online program to improve quality care for patients

Implantable heart devices provide same substantial survival benefit, regardless of race

Lung Cancer Alliance praises NCI's new ALCHEMIST trial

EMP introduces Guardian Angel Personal Safety Device for emergency responders

ASAHI INTECC, Boston Scientific to develop new, differentiated FFR wire

Italy's amateur soccer league selects Cardiac Science as certified AED supplier

CEOLIVE.TV interviews BioElectronics expert as part of its Executive Interview Series

BGRF scientists propose Oncofinder method for accurate analysis of gene expression data

Doctors test device designed to 'turn off' cluster headaches

Using NMR to study protein motion: an interview with Fabien Ferrage, École Normale Supérieure, Paris

MGH-developed microfluidic device may help study key steps involved in development of tumor metastasis

Advancing brain microphysiological systems (bMPS)

PhD researcher at LifeArc

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