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New microfluidic chip can capture live CTCs from patient's blood

Tumor cells circulating within a patient's bloodstream can carry cancer from a primary tumor site to distant sites of the body, spreading the disease.

9 Aug 2013

Robotic intubation device automatically identifies lungs and navigates toward it

Graduates of the Hebrew University's Biodesign program revealed a robotic intubation device that automatically identifies the lungs using an infrared source and navigates toward it.

9 Aug 2013

Tobacco-Free Teens app prevents teens from smoking

An app to prevent teens from smoking and encourage them to quit if they've started is now just a few taps away and available free on the Apple iTunes Store.

9 Aug 2013

Journey Forward creates tool to help cancer survivors initiate care planning with health care providers

Journey Forward, a leader in Survivorship Care Planning, is moving forward patient-centered care by enhancing its suite of free, award-winning survivorship care planning tools with My Care Plan.

9 Aug 2013

GE, UW scientists to develop new medical device for detecting infectious disease

You've heard of on-demand TV, now imagine on-demand medical diagnosis - anytime, anywhere in the world. Scientists at GE Global Research, the technology development arm of the General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE), are working with a team based at the University of Washington to develop a new medical device, the size of a pack of playing cards, that can detect infectious disease by way of a simple nasal swab, in less than an hour.

9 Aug 2013

Enrollment completed for Cook Medical’s study of tibiopedal access technique for treating PAD

Cook Medical has completed patient enrollment in a study evaluating a technique for achieving vascular access via below-the-knee arteries. The new access technique could be used in treating peripheral arterial disease, including patients with critical limb ischemia.

9 Aug 2013

HealthcarePays creates virtual card processing solution for healthcare providers

HealthcarePays has created a virtual card processing solution to ensure compliance, reconciliation of remittance information with payments, and detection of waste and fraud for healthcare providers throughout the United States. MasterCard will supply the connection between banks and providers to ensure speed and convenience in the payment process.

9 Aug 2013

Verizon's Converged Health Management solution gets FDA clearance

Verizon announced today that it has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration 510(k) clearance for Converged Health Management, a cloud-based, remote patient-monitoring medical device. This marks the first time Verizon has sought and gained FDA clearance for a healthcare solution.

9 Aug 2013

Researchers develop first avatar-based decision support technology for caregivers

One of life's toughest decisions is whether to continue or withdraw life-sustaining therapies for loved ones who are unable to make their own healthcare decisions.

9 Aug 2013

New reagent kits for intracellular staining from Beckman Coulter Life Sciences

PerFix-Expose1 and PerFix-nc1, innovative new reagent kits for intracellular staining from Beckman Coulter Life Sciences, minimize sample manipulation for a streamlined workflow that delivers high quality results. Developed for use on Beckman Coulter’s Gallios1 and Navios2 series flow cytometers and compatible with all Beckman Coulter Life Sciences’ fluorochromes, the kits enable a clear focus on the cytoplasmic and nuclear compartments of the cell.

8 Aug 2013

DASA Group to offer Natera's non-invasive prenatal test for detection of genetic syndromes

DASA Group and Natera today announced that DASA Group will begin offering Natera's non-invasive prenatal test Panorama for the detection of genetic syndromes common in the population, such as trisomy 21 (Down syndrome), trisomy 13 (Patau Syndrome ), trisomy 18 (Edwards syndrome) and monosomy X (Turner syndrome).

From Natera 8 Aug 2013

Allianz Life goes live on Accenture Life Insurance Platform

Accenture announced today that Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America has gone live on the Accenture Life Insurance Platform, its life and annuity insurance software suite. The new system supports Allianz Life's new business and core policy administration needs for its variable annuity products.

8 Aug 2013

TruClinic signs new partnership with University of Utah Hospital's Department of Telemedicine

Today TruClinic announced a new partnership with University of Utah Hospital's Department of Telemedicine, which will enable patients and practitioners to have video-based online visits and consultations with simply a computing device, Internet connection and a webcam.

8 Aug 2013

UCLA researchers invent research maps to help neuroscientists choose what to study next

Before the digital age, neuroscientists got their information in the library like the rest of us. But the field's explosion has created nearly 2 million papers -- more data than any researcher can read and absorb in a lifetime.

8 Aug 2013

Biodegradable surgical sutures could treat brain infections

A plastic material already used in absorbable surgical sutures and other medical devices shows promise for continuous administration of antibiotics to patients with brain infections, scientists are reporting in a new study. Use of the material, placed directly on the brain's surface, could reduce the need for weeks of costly hospital stays now required for such treatment, they say in the journal ACS Chemical Neuroscience.

8 Aug 2013

One-third of patients with heart pumps develop infection at abdominal power connection site

Cardiac surgeons and cardiologists at the University of Maryland Heart Center are part of a multi-center clinical trial evaluating the efficacy of powering heart pumps through a skull-based connector behind the ear. Typically, these devices for patients with severe heart failure are energized through an electrical cord connected at an abdominal site, where potentially deadly infections can develop.

8 Aug 2013

UAH invents smart pill bottle that notifies you to take your medications

Patented at The University of Alabama in Huntsville, (UAH), a smart pill bottle that notifies you to take your medications or reminds you if you missed a dose could be en route to medicine cabinets as soon as 2015.

8 Aug 2013

Scientist receives grant to commercialize technology developed for repairing skin injuries

The Chemical Alliance Zone's Chemicals and Materials Commercialization Fund has awarded $20,000 to a Marshall University scientist to help bring to market a technology he has developed for repairing skin injuries.

8 Aug 2013

LAPPD develops big detectors that push timing envelope

The Large Area Picosecond Photodetector (LAPPD) collaboration has developed big detectors that push the timing envelope, measuring the speed of particles with a precision down to trillionths of a second.

8 Aug 2013

ASU expert receives $1.6 million grant to advance microscopy imaging research

At Arizona State University's Biodesign Institute, Nongjian (NJ) Tao has been designing advanced microscopy methods with the ambitious aim of capturing molecular-scale phenomena in living systems. The new techniques, which combine multiple imaging modalities, are poised to revolutionize the study of biology and the development of new drugs.

8 Aug 2013

Device / Technology News

New microfluidic chip can capture live CTCs from patient's blood

Robotic intubation device automatically identifies lungs and navigates toward it

Tobacco-Free Teens app prevents teens from smoking

Journey Forward creates tool to help cancer survivors initiate care planning with health care providers

GE, UW scientists to develop new medical device for detecting infectious disease

Enrollment completed for Cook Medical’s study of tibiopedal access technique for treating PAD

HealthcarePays creates virtual card processing solution for healthcare providers

Verizon's Converged Health Management solution gets FDA clearance

Researchers develop first avatar-based decision support technology for caregivers

New reagent kits for intracellular staining from Beckman Coulter Life Sciences

DASA Group to offer Natera's non-invasive prenatal test for detection of genetic syndromes

Allianz Life goes live on Accenture Life Insurance Platform

TruClinic signs new partnership with University of Utah Hospital's Department of Telemedicine

UCLA researchers invent research maps to help neuroscientists choose what to study next

Biodegradable surgical sutures could treat brain infections

One-third of patients with heart pumps develop infection at abdominal power connection site

UAH invents smart pill bottle that notifies you to take your medications

Scientist receives grant to commercialize technology developed for repairing skin injuries

LAPPD develops big detectors that push timing envelope

ASU expert receives $1.6 million grant to advance microscopy imaging research

Exploring the nanoscale: How AFM is transforming cosmetic science

Innovating Texture and Culture in Plant-Based Foods

Advancing brain microphysiological systems (bMPS)

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