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Anesthesia Business Consultants unveils newest tool, F1RSTAnalytics at ASA Annual Convention

Anesthesia Business Consultants (ABC) announces today that it will unveil its newest tool, F1RSTAnalytics™ at the ASA Annual Convention in San Francisco, CA, October 12-16th. F1RSTAnalytics offers "Insight at Your Fingertips."

9 Oct 2013

ECA Medical Instruments unveils new family of disposable Torque-Fast surgical instruments

ECA Medical Instruments, the leading designer and manufacturer of single-procedure torque-limiting and fixed-driver surgical instruments and kits for the medical industry and surgeons worldwide, unveiled its new family of disposable Torque-Fast instruments for safe and accurate securing of medical device implants.

9 Oct 2013

ProTip, Strasbourg University Hospitals complete first implantation of artificial larynx in human patient

ProTip SAS, the specialist developer of innovative medical devices for patients suffering from laryngeal malfunction, and Strasbourg University Hospitals today announce that they have successfully completed the first implantation of an artificial larynx in a human patient.

9 Oct 2013

AquaBased introduces new eco-friendly water-based adhesive for plastic-to-plastic bonding

AquaBased Technologies, a division of ADM Tronics Unlimited, Inc. (OTCQB:ADMT), has introduced AquaTack™ 7001-PAA, a new, eco-friendly, water-based adhesive specifically designed for use in flexographic presses and other roller coater applicators for the lamination of virtually any type of low surface energy plastic films as well as for other plastic-to-plastic bonding applications.

9 Oct 2013

X-spine launches three USFDA-cleared spinal implant systems

X-spine, a global leader in the design and manufacture of devices for the treatment of spinal disease, announces the market launch of three recently USFDA-cleared spinal implant systems. The systems are the IRIX-C cervical integrated interbody fusion system, the AXLE-X extended angle interspinous fixation system and the SILEX™ sacroiliac joint fusion system .

9 Oct 2013

Nuventra launches innovative software platform for conducting population PK analyses

Nuventra Pharma Sciences, a specialty pharmaceutical consulting firm with global reach, is pleased to announce the launch and availability of an innovative software platform called Darwin for conducting population pharmacokinetic (PK) analyses based on a genetic algorithm paradigm.

9 Oct 2013

Mitsubishi Electric to provide proton beam therapy system to Hakuhokai Group healthcare organization

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced today that it will provide its innovative proton beam therapy system for cancer treatment to the Hakuhokai Group healthcare organization led by Chairman Motohisa Kojo in Osaka, Japan. The system will be installed at the Hakuhokai Group Osaka Proton Therapy Clinic scheduled to open in April 2016.

9 Oct 2013

AdvantEdge Healthcare launches QualityEdge information capture service

AdvantEdge Healthcare Solutions, one of the nation's leading providers of medical billing, practice management, and coding services for specialty physicians, hospitals, and surgery centers, is launching its QualityEdgeSM information capture service, which allows physicians and other providers to easily capture data that would otherwise require paper notes or the use of an EMR.

9 Oct 2013

A window to the brain: an interview with Professor Guillermo Aguilar, UC Riverside's Bourns College of Engineering (BCOE)

It is literally a transparent window made of yttria-stabilized zirconia (YSZ), which we envision to become a suitable cranial implant that allows physicians for optical access to the tissue brain. It would serve the same mechanical function of current cranial implants made of other materials, such as titanium, except that it would enable optical access too, which could be very beneficial for post-operatory diagnostic or therapeutic procedures.

8 Oct 2013

LSTM professor wins Universal Biotech Innovation Prize 2013 for Hexagard

Professor Richard Pleass has won the Prix de l’Innovation 2013, also known as the Universal Biotech Innovation Prize 2013.

8 Oct 2013

New stand-alone intervertebral body fusion device gets FDA clearance

Surgeons treating patients with degenerative disc disease may now use a new stand-alone intervertebral body fusion device recently cleared by the Food and Drug Administration. Manufactured by Binder Biomedical Inc., the device presents a complete anterior lumbar fixation system with a simple, one-step locking mechanism.

8 Oct 2013

CARUNDA24: A non-invasive continuous blood pressure measurement system

Freienbach, Switzerland: About 1 in 4 people in Switzerland suffer from high blood pressure; worldwide more than 1 billion people are affected increasing the risk of heart attack, cerebral haemorrhage or a stroke. Unfortunately, most affected people don't measure their blood pressure regularly as the measurement method is too complicated and uncomfortable to be part of a daily routine.

8 Oct 2013

Scientists to highlight Bio-Rad's Droplet Digital PCR applications at CHI Digital PCR Conference

Since its introduction in 2011, Bio-Rad Laboratory's Droplet Digital PCR (ddPCR-) technology has demonstrated the potential to be a transformative technology, particularly in clinical applications.

8 Oct 2013

Researchers use ARRAYit Microarray Platform to discover important biomarkers

ARRAYit Corporation reports today that researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Cancer Institute (NCI) and Northeastern University have used the ARRAYit Microarray Platform to discover biomarkers important in the treatment of prostate cancer.

8 Oct 2013

PET scan shows promise in predicting patients with inoperable lung cancer

Advanced imaging with Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scan shows great promise in predicting which patients with inoperable lung cancer have more aggressive tumors and need additional treatment following standard chemotherapy/radiation therapy, according to new research recently published online in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.

8 Oct 2013

Grandmothers can lower their stress levels with biofeedback device

In a pilot study by Case Western Reserve University's Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, 20 grandmothers were able to lower their stress levels with a biofeedback device that tracks breathing patterns.

8 Oct 2013

Professors receive Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic

The 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to James E. Rothman, Randy W. Schekman and Thomas C. Südhof "for their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells".

7 Oct 2013

Novel sensing algorithm detects effect of AD in unconstrained everyday motion behavior

The projected substantial increase in Alzheimer's disease due to the higher life expectancy in modern societies is one of the great future challenges of health care systems worldwide.

7 Oct 2013

Virtual simulation training system to help home health workers respond to risks

As the population ages, the need for professional caregivers to provide in-home services for ill and disabled patients is increasing. As a workplace, patient homes may present more challenges than other health care settings because they can harbor hazards such as tobacco smoke, cluttered hallways and rooms, inaccessible bathrooms, rodents, bugs and more.

7 Oct 2013

New injection device delivers optimum treatment dose to hepatitis C patients

A new injection device, ViraferonPeg Clearclick, has launched in the UK today for hepatitis C patients to accurately titrate and self-administer their weekly dose of ViraferonPeg (peginterferon alfa-2b).

5 Oct 2013

Device / Technology News

Anesthesia Business Consultants unveils newest tool, F1RSTAnalytics at ASA Annual Convention

ECA Medical Instruments unveils new family of disposable Torque-Fast surgical instruments

ProTip, Strasbourg University Hospitals complete first implantation of artificial larynx in human patient

AquaBased introduces new eco-friendly water-based adhesive for plastic-to-plastic bonding

X-spine launches three USFDA-cleared spinal implant systems

Nuventra launches innovative software platform for conducting population PK analyses

Mitsubishi Electric to provide proton beam therapy system to Hakuhokai Group healthcare organization

AdvantEdge Healthcare launches QualityEdge information capture service

A window to the brain: an interview with Professor Guillermo Aguilar, UC Riverside's Bourns College of Engineering (BCOE)

LSTM professor wins Universal Biotech Innovation Prize 2013 for Hexagard

New stand-alone intervertebral body fusion device gets FDA clearance

CARUNDA24: A non-invasive continuous blood pressure measurement system

Scientists to highlight Bio-Rad's Droplet Digital PCR applications at CHI Digital PCR Conference

Researchers use ARRAYit Microarray Platform to discover important biomarkers

PET scan shows promise in predicting patients with inoperable lung cancer

Grandmothers can lower their stress levels with biofeedback device

Professors receive Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic

Novel sensing algorithm detects effect of AD in unconstrained everyday motion behavior

Virtual simulation training system to help home health workers respond to risks

New injection device delivers optimum treatment dose to hepatitis C patients

Advancing brain microphysiological systems (bMPS)

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