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Teleflex, Amerinet sign deal for VasoNova Vascular Positioning System

Teleflex Incorporated, a leading global provider of medical devices for critical care and surgery, has announced the addition of VasoNova Vascular Positioning System to its existing Peripherally Inserted Central Catheters agreement with Amerinet. The agreement began May 1, 2011 and runs through April 30, 2014.

20 Jun 2011

WellAWARE Systems announces new partnership with Masonic Homes of Kentucky

WellAWARE Systems, the developer of breakthrough technology designed to enable proactive and preventive senior care, announced a new partnership with Masonic Homes of Kentucky.

20 Jun 2011

Perceptive's Clinical Trial Management System now available as SaaS application

Perceptive Informatics, a leading eClinical solutions provider and a subsidiary of PAREXEL International Corporation, today announced that its Clinical Trial Management System is available as an on-demand, software-as-a-service (SaaS) application.

From Parexel 20 Jun 2011

Premier healthcare honors Toshiba with Supplier Performance Award

Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc. today announced that it is a winner of the sixth annual Performance Award, presented by the Premier healthcare alliance.

20 Jun 2011

Ascom announces Home Care Services for Independent Living Segment

Ascom Wireless Solutions, the leading supplier of on-site wireless communications today announced the Ascom Home Care Services for the Independent Living Segment which are targeted to meet the needs of elderly who have a desire to live independently within their own homes as long as possible.

20 Jun 2011

Novel biomarker-development pipeline approach for human diseases

Researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have demonstrated in mice that the performance of a novel biomarker-development pipeline using targeted mass spectrometry is robust enough to support the use of an analogous approach in humans.

20 Jun 2011

Zilver PTX stent more effective than PTA for treatment of femoral artery lesions

Results of a prospective, randomized trial indicate that when treating femoral artery (SFA) lesions, the Zilver PTX Paclitaxel-Eluting Stent shows sustained effectiveness compared to percutaneous transluminal angioplasty, even in diabetic patients.

20 Jun 2011

European Patent Office issues notice of allowance to Kuros' synthetic biomaterials

Kuros Biosurgery AG, a biotechnology company focused on the development of novel biomaterials and bioactive-biomaterial combination products for trauma, wound and spinal indications, announced today the allowance of European Patent Application 00910049 by the European Patent Office.

20 Jun 2011

NIH-funded study to develop virtual reality simulator for 'scarless' endoscopic surgery

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have secured a $2.7 million grant to develop the first-ever virtual reality simulator for next-generation "scarless" endoscopic surgery.

20 Jun 2011

Veritract to develop 'Smart Feeding Tube' with live camera and steering mechanism

Feeding tubes are not as harmless as they seem. Every year in the U.S. over 40,000 feeding tubes are mistakenly placed into a patient's lungs, which results in an estimated 6,000 deaths. But a University of Utah startup company, Veritract Inc., hopes to end these risks by making the placement of feeding tubes much safer and faster.

20 Jun 2011

Medtronic Valiant stent graft safe and effective for patients with thoracic aortic aneurysm

An innovative medical device used in the minimally invasive treatment of thoracic aortic aneurysms, the Valiant Thoracic Stent Graft System from Medtronic, Inc., delivered excellent clinical results through one year of patient follow-up in the company's U.S. pivotal study, VALOR II, according to data presented today at a meeting for vascular surgeons.

From Medtronic 20 Jun 2011

Study: Abdominal debrancing with aortic stent grafts linked to high early mortality

The clinical data from 167 patients who underwent abdominal debrancing combined with aortic stent grafts (ADSG) at 12 centers in North America from1999-2010 were released today at the 65th Vascular Annual Meeting® presented by the Society for Vascular Surgery.

20 Jun 2011

Negative-pressure wound therapy does not promote healing: Research

Negative-pressure wound therapy probably does not promote healing. This is the conclusion of Frank Peinemann and Stefan Sauerland's meta-analysis in the current edition of Deutsches Ärzteblatt International.

18 Jun 2011

Technology aids in maintaining quality of life in aging

Dorothy Rutherford is anxiously typing at her home computer, filling in answers to an online spelling game. Gerontologists say aging in place vastly improves the quality of life for seniors and is a lot cheaper for society than group homes and institutions.

18 Jun 2011

RIKEN, JASRI produce first beam of X-ray laser light

RIKEN and the Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute (JASRI) have successfully produced a first beam of X-ray laser light with a wavelength of 1.2 Angstroms. This light was created using SACLA, a cutting-edge X-ray Free Electron Laser facility unveiled by RIKEN in February 2011 in Harima, Japan.

18 Jun 2011

Encouraging results from ReShape Duo Phase 1 study for treatment of obesity

ReShape Medical, Inc. today announces results of its U.S. Phase 1 investigational clinical study. This feasibility study of thirty subjects assessed the safety and effectiveness of the ReShape Duo in conjunction with lifestyle modification in patients with a body mass index of 30-40.

17 Jun 2011

CoreLab Partners' new technological solutions to be showcased at DIA 2011

CoreLab Partners, Inc, the global entity resulting from the merger between RadPharm, Inc and Medifacts International, will showcase several new technological solutions to coincide with the upcoming DIA meeting in Chicago, Illinois to be held from June 20 - 23, 2011.

17 Jun 2011

Careful, well-designed studies needed for evaluating patients with MS: SIRF panel

Evaluating patients with multiple sclerosis who have narrowed jugular and azygos veins-and the value of widening those veins with angioplasty-warrants careful, well-designed research, noted members of a Society of Interventional Radiology Foundation's Research Consensus Panel.

17 Jun 2011

Children with head trauma after normal CT scans do not require neurosurgical intervention

A large, national multi-center study of thousands of children taken to emergency departments with minor blunt head trauma has found that most of those with normal computed tomography (CT) scans do not require hospitalization for further observation.

17 Jun 2011

'Ultrawideband' technology for real-time health diagnosis

New research by electrical engineers at Oregon State University has confirmed that an electronic technology called "ultrawideband" could hold part of the solution to an ambitious goal in the future of medicine - health monitoring with sophisticated "body-area networks."

17 Jun 2011

Device / Technology News

Teleflex, Amerinet sign deal for VasoNova Vascular Positioning System

WellAWARE Systems announces new partnership with Masonic Homes of Kentucky

Perceptive's Clinical Trial Management System now available as SaaS application

Premier healthcare honors Toshiba with Supplier Performance Award

Ascom announces Home Care Services for Independent Living Segment

Novel biomarker-development pipeline approach for human diseases

Zilver PTX stent more effective than PTA for treatment of femoral artery lesions

European Patent Office issues notice of allowance to Kuros' synthetic biomaterials

NIH-funded study to develop virtual reality simulator for 'scarless' endoscopic surgery

Veritract to develop 'Smart Feeding Tube' with live camera and steering mechanism

Medtronic Valiant stent graft safe and effective for patients with thoracic aortic aneurysm

Study: Abdominal debrancing with aortic stent grafts linked to high early mortality

Negative-pressure wound therapy does not promote healing: Research

Technology aids in maintaining quality of life in aging

RIKEN, JASRI produce first beam of X-ray laser light

Encouraging results from ReShape Duo Phase 1 study for treatment of obesity

CoreLab Partners' new technological solutions to be showcased at DIA 2011

Careful, well-designed studies needed for evaluating patients with MS: SIRF panel

Children with head trauma after normal CT scans do not require neurosurgical intervention

'Ultrawideband' technology for real-time health diagnosis

Fourier 80: bringing benchtop NMR systems to the laboratory

How industrial hygiene flow calibration supports defensible exposure data

How electrical engineering ensures accurate calibration and patient safety

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