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Nine thousand patients to take part in Nowegian study on opening of narrowed coronary arteries

Nine thousand patients will take part in a clinical trial to determine the best method of opening narrowed coronary arteries. The results of the study may lead to substantial cost savings - and save lives.

9 Feb 2011

DE-MRI holds promise for predicting risks of strokes

Researchers at the University of Utah's Comprehensive Arrhythmia and Research Management Center have found that delayed-enhancement magnetic resonance imaging holds promise for predicting the risks of strokes, the third leading cause of death in the U.S.

9 Feb 2011

LESSOnc technique promising new surgical option for certain liver cancers

Surgeons at UC San Diego Health System have identified a new application for "scarless" surgery tools that are normally used for natural orifice translumenal endoscopic surgery (NOTES).

9 Feb 2011

MedShape reports first clinical use of ExoShape PEEK Altera interference fixation device for ACL surgery

MedShape Solutions, Inc., the industry leader in innovative shape memory orthopedic devices, today announced the introduction and first human clinical use of ExoShape™ CL, a two-part PEEK Altera™ interference fixation device that simplifies and improves soft tissue graft fixation during anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstructive surgery.

9 Feb 2011

BUSPH: Electronic cigarettes are promising tool to help smokers quit

A study led by Boston University School of Public Health researchers reports that electronic cigarettes are a promising tool to help smokers quit, producing six-month abstinence rates nearly double those for traditional nicotine replacement products.

9 Feb 2011

NMS Labs launches unique test for Methotrexate

NMS Labs launches another unique test suitable for the evaluation of toxicity vs. efficacy and helping physicians with therapeutic drug monitoring of patients for the therapeutic agent, Methotrexate.

8 Feb 2011

Positron anticipates expanded market opportunity for Attrius PET scanner

Positron Corporation a molecular imaging solutions company focused on nuclear cardiology, announced today that with the conditional U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of Eli Lilly's PET imaging agent Amyvid (florbetapir), it expects to see an expanded market opportunity for its Attrius® PET scanner.

8 Feb 2011

USPTO issues patent for Metabolon's UHPLC/MSn-based analytical platform

Metabolon, the leader in metabolomics, biomarker discovery and analysis, announced today the grant of US Patent No. 7,884,318 entitled "Systems, Methods, and Computer-Readable Medium for Determining Composition of Chemical Constituents in a Complex Mixture".

8 Feb 2011

FDA approves Medtronic's new Revo MRI pacemaker

Medtronic, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved its Revo MRI SureScan pacing system, the first and only pacemaker in the U.S. specifically designed for use in an Magnetic Resonance Imaging environment and approved as MR-Conditional. Shipments of Revo MRI will begin immediately.

8 Feb 2011

Researchers develop reality-based video game therapies to help stroke patients

The Journal of the American Medical Society featured the research of NJIT Associate Professor Sergei Adamovich, a biomedical engineer. Adamovich and his research partners, physical therapists Alma Merians, PhD, PT, and Eugene Tunik, PhD, PT, at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, have developed innovative robotic and virtual reality-based video game therapies to help stroke patients regain use of hands and arms.

8 Feb 2011

Abacus introduces new e-blood pressure control system for hospitals

Abacus Health Solutions has developed a new e-health enabled blood pressure monitoring and feedback system to improve health outcomes for hospital specialty clinics.

8 Feb 2011

CLC bio, Omixon release SOLiD Alignment plug-in for high-throughput sequencing data analysis

Today, CLC bio and Omixon announced the release of the Omixon Gapped SOLiD Alignment plug-in for full integration into CLC Genomics Workbench.

8 Feb 2011

RemedyMD announces new ComprehensiveBMT to solve key HSCT research challenges

RemedyMD has identified the need within the HSCT community to build software that can aggregate, link, harmonize, and analyze data from patients and donors and then report data as necessary to the CIBMTR.

8 Feb 2011

Smartphone juggernaut will impact revenues, design strategies, and IP management, say UBM TechInsights

UBM TechInsights today warned the consumer medical device industry that the smartphone juggernaut will impact revenues, design strategies, and intellectual property management for medical devices in the same way it has for many consumer products including cameras, GPS devices and personal media players.

8 Feb 2011

Gizmox announces entry into Business Mobility Market

Gizmox, the developer of Visual WebGui Web & Cloud Platform, announced today their entrance into the Business Mobility Market. Visual WebGui's Instant CloudMove migration, which enables users to migrate client/server applications to the Web or Cloud, has now been extended to make business applications accessible from Mobile/Tablet devices using a simple mapping and configuration tool.

8 Feb 2011

UK's first totally implantable hearing aid operation performed at Queen Alexandra Hospital

A woman from Portsmouth has received the UK's first totally implantable hearing aid thanks to the work of the South of England Cochlear Implant Centre (SOECIC), based at the University of Southampton.

8 Feb 2011

New facilities for developing imaging tests in PESA CNIC-Santander study inaugurated

Felipe P-triz, Secretary of State for Research and Emilio Bot-n, president of Banco Santander have inaugurated today in Banco Santander Finantial City (located in Boadilla del Monte) the new facilities for developing the first imaging tests included in PESA (Progression of Early Subclinical Atherosclerosis) CNIC-Santander study.

8 Feb 2011

Ability of e-cigarettes to help smokers cut down or quit still unknown

Electronic cigarettes are drawing heavy media and marketing attention, and while a new study finds that consumer interest also runs high, a companion study underscores that e-cigarettes' ability to help smokers cut down or quit is unknown.

8 Feb 2011

iPhone software apps designed to help people quit smoking fall short of the mark

A new study finds that iPhone software applications designed to help people quit smoking fall short of the mark because they do not meet accepted standards.

8 Feb 2011

TREK1 activity offers a key target for fluoxetine and other antidepressant drugs

Using a unique and relatively simple cell-based fluorescent assay they developed, scientists with the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California, Berkeley have identified a means by which fluoxetine, the active ingredient in Prozac, suppresses the activity of the TREK1 potassium channel.

8 Feb 2011

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Nine thousand patients to take part in Nowegian study on opening of narrowed coronary arteries

DE-MRI holds promise for predicting risks of strokes

LESSOnc technique promising new surgical option for certain liver cancers

MedShape reports first clinical use of ExoShape PEEK Altera interference fixation device for ACL surgery

BUSPH: Electronic cigarettes are promising tool to help smokers quit

NMS Labs launches unique test for Methotrexate

Positron anticipates expanded market opportunity for Attrius PET scanner

USPTO issues patent for Metabolon's UHPLC/MSn-based analytical platform

FDA approves Medtronic's new Revo MRI pacemaker

Researchers develop reality-based video game therapies to help stroke patients

Abacus introduces new e-blood pressure control system for hospitals

CLC bio, Omixon release SOLiD Alignment plug-in for high-throughput sequencing data analysis

RemedyMD announces new ComprehensiveBMT to solve key HSCT research challenges

Smartphone juggernaut will impact revenues, design strategies, and IP management, say UBM TechInsights

Gizmox announces entry into Business Mobility Market

UK's first totally implantable hearing aid operation performed at Queen Alexandra Hospital

New facilities for developing imaging tests in PESA CNIC-Santander study inaugurated

Ability of e-cigarettes to help smokers cut down or quit still unknown

iPhone software apps designed to help people quit smoking fall short of the mark

TREK1 activity offers a key target for fluoxetine and other antidepressant drugs

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