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Vexim granted FDA approval for COHESION bone cement

Vexim specialises in medical instruments and the minimally invasive treatment of vertebral fractures. The company recently announced that it had been awarded FDA certification for its flagship product COHESION™, a bone cement for injection into the vertebra for its fixation following minimally invasive spine repair with the company's SpineJack® device, or following conventional vertebroplasty.

30 Mar 2011

Almac inaugurates new CLIA registered laboratory

Almac's Diagnostics business unit today announced the opening of its CLIA registered laboratory.

30 Mar 2011

Navy sonar experts develop new medical device for stroke detection

A medical device developed by retired U.S. Navy sonar experts, using submarine technology, is a new paradigm for the detection, diagnosis and monitoring of stroke, says a team of interventional radiologists at the Society of Interventional Radiology's 36th Annual Scientific Meeting in Chicago, Ill.

30 Mar 2011

Covidien to present new laparoscopic surgical products data at SAGES 2011

Covidien, a leading global provider of healthcare products, announced that new data on its laparoscopic surgical products will be presented at SAGES 2011, the annual meeting of the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons.

30 Mar 2011

Prostate Oncology Specialists introduces new blog for patients

Prostate Oncology Specialists, Inc. announces the launch of the "Prostate Snatchers" blog. It features contributions from a medical oncologist, Mark Scholz MD, who specializes only in prostate cancer and a prostate cancer patient, Ralph H. Blum.

30 Mar 2011

BIOTRONIK completes patient enrollment in IN-TIME clinical trial to treat HF

BIOTRONIK SE & Co. KG, a leading manufacturer of cardiac devices, announced today that the last chronic heart failure patient was enrolled in IN-TIME at the Schwabing Clinic in Munich, Germany, with principle investigator Professor Stefan Sack, MD.

30 Mar 2011

Engineers create new microfluidic device that can detect cancer cells, HIV

A Harvard bioengineer and an MIT aeronautical engineer have created a new device that can detect single cancer cells in a blood sample, potentially allowing doctors to quickly determine whether cancer has spread from its original site.

30 Mar 2011

Stanford professor receives AFER Ludwig von Sallman Clinician-scientist Award

Karl Deisseroth, MD, PhD, has been named the first recipient of the Ludwig von Sallman Clinician-scientist Award, presented by the ARVO Foundation for Eye Research to a clinician-scientist under age 40.

30 Mar 2011

Uterine fibroid embolization reduces fibroid-related urinary symptoms

Uterine fibroid embolization—an interventional radiology treatment for the noncancerous yet very common growths that develop in the muscular wall of the uterus—improves a number of women's lower urinary tract problems that are specifically caused by those fibroids, confirm researchers at the Society of Interventional Radiology's 36th Annual Scientific Meeting in Chicago, Ill.

30 Mar 2011

Labcyte launches 1536-well tissue-culture treated microplate for cell-based screening

Labcyte Inc. today launched a new 1536-well tissue-culture treated microplate for cell-based screening and discovery applications. By enabling cell culture directly in a high-density microplate, this new product expands cell-based assay miniaturization capabilities, such as direct PCR from cell cultures.

30 Mar 2011

Transgenomic discovers novel BLOCker-Sequencing technology

Transgenomic, Inc. today announced that it has discovered a novel sequencing technology, which the company has termed BLOCker-Sequencing, which enhances the limit of detection of standard Sanger Sequencing, enriches for direct sequencing of mutated DNA over wild-type and can be run on standard Sanger Sequencing equipment.

30 Mar 2011

Osseon launches Osseoflex BT Steerable Bone Tamp for physicians

Osseon Therapeutics announced today at the Society of Interventional Radiology's Annual Meeting the launch of the Osseoflex BT Steerable Bone Tamp.

30 Mar 2011

FDA clears Access Scientific's POWERWAND catheter

Access Scientific, Inc. today announced it has received FDA 510(k) clearance for the POWERWAND — an extended-dwell, power-injectable 3.1 inch IV catheter delivered by means of The WAND's proprietary Accelerated Seldinger Technique.

30 Mar 2011

McKesson awards GW with two grants to study mobile-phone use in diabetic patients

GW researchers have been awarded two grants from the McKesson Foundation as part of its Mobilizing for Health initiative, an initiative to improve the health of underserved populations with chronic diseases through the use of mobile-phone technology.

29 Mar 2011

New guidelines highlight genetic testing use in heart arrhythmia clinical management

The Canadian Cardiovascular Society and Canadian Heart Rhythm Society have produced the first-ever comprehensive guidelines on the use of genetic testing in the clinical management of inherited heart rhythm disorders, released in the March/April issue of the Canadian Journal of Cardiology published by Elsevier.

29 Mar 2011

Doctors who use iResus application perform better simulated cardiac arrest emergency

Doctors who used a free iPhone application provided by the UK Resuscitation Council performed significantly better in a simulated medical emergency than those who did not, according to a study in the April issue of Anaesthesia.

29 Mar 2011

Penn neurologist develops new approach for brain activity study

By combining sophisticated mathematical techniques more commonly used by spies instead of scientists with the power and versatility of functional magnetic resonance imaging, a Penn neurologist has developed a new approach for studying the inner workings of the brain.

29 Mar 2011

New study: Many elderly men may overuse PSA testing

A new study on the use of prostate-specific antigen-based prostate cancer screening in the United States found that many elderly men may be undergoing unnecessary prostate cancer screenings.

29 Mar 2011

UC San Diego student to make medical imaging available in low-income countries

Benjamin Johnson, a fourth-year student at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine is determined to make medical imaging technology widely available in low-income countries. His journey started in Uganda, where currently just 35 local radiologists serve the needs of 30 million people.

29 Mar 2011

PHT announces availability of NetPRO eClinical solution for public

PHT Corporation announced the availability of NetPRO, a browser-based ePRO and eClinRO system that collects patient data via the Internet. PHT is the global innovator in ePRO and PRO solutions that maximize the collection of high-quality data from clinical trial patients.

29 Mar 2011