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Brain implant surgery can improve life for people with cervical dystonia

Implanting electrodes into a pea-sized part of the brain can dramatically improve life for people with severe cervical dystonia - a rare but extremely debilitating condition that causes painful, twisting neck muscle spasms - according to the results of a pilot study led by Jill Ostrem, MD and Philip Starr, MD PhD at the University of California, San Francisco.

9 Mar 2011

Next Generation Identification System to process fingerprint transactions more effectively

New technology designed to revolutionize law enforcement's ability to process fingerprints has reached its initial operating capability, the FBI announced today.

9 Mar 2011

Allergy Asthma Research Institute, Forest Labs join SAFE-BioPharma

In a move to improve efficiency by reducing paper in their respective operations, Forest Laboratories and the Allergy Asthma Research Institute have joined SAFE-BioPharma Association. They now have access to the SAFE-BioPharma® digital identity and signature standard, used throughout the biopharmaceutical industry to verify and manage digital identities involved in electronic transactions and to apply digital signatures to electronic documents.

9 Mar 2011

Text messaging effectively intervenes during smoking urges

A pair of related studies on smoking cessation by researchers at the University of Oregon and other institutions have isolated the brain regions most active in controlling urges to smoke and demonstrated the effectiveness of text-messaging to measure and intervene in those urges.

9 Mar 2011

Majority of Americans believe doctors using EHR systems provide better care

A survey conducted by GfK Roper for Practice Fusion reveals an overwhelming majority of Americans believe doctors using a computer system provide them with better care.

8 Mar 2011

Study finds AFFIRM assay may accurately detect Trichamonos vaginalis

A study from the microbiology lab at Rhode Island Hospital has found that a new test may be more accurate in identifying a common sexually transmitted infection, Trichamonos vaginalis.

8 Mar 2011

CCCB selects CLC bio's enterprise platform for next generation sequence analysis

After a thorough head-to-head evaluation against various competing solutions, the Center for Cancer Computational Biology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has selected CLC bio's enterprise platform for next generation sequence analysis.

8 Mar 2011

EHR? Not so fast - Patients express security concerns

CDW Healthcare, part of the public sector subsidiary of CDW LLC, today announced the results of a national survey on patient perceptions of electronic health records (EHRs) and the security of personal health information (PHI). The report, “Elevated Heart Rates: EHR and IT Security,” found that while patients trust their doctors to protect their information, 49 percent believe that EHRs will have a negative impact on the privacy of their PHI and health data.

8 Mar 2011

Henry Schein MicroMD EMR Version 7.5 attains ONC-ATCB Complete EHR certification status

Henry Schein MicroMD, a provider of proven and cost-effective practice management and electronic medical records systems, announced today that its MicroMD EMR Version 7.5 achieved ONC-ATCB 2011/2012 Complete EHR Certification, and can help health care providers using Electronic Health Record technology meet the requirements needed to receive financial incentives earmarked under President Obama's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

8 Mar 2011

Nursing professors to develop new device for older adults

For those of us living the frenetic modern lifestyle, sitting in one place for a long period might seem like a vacation. But for those who are retired, it can lead to health complications.

8 Mar 2011

Vertos reports long-term safety and efficacy of mild in patients with LSS

Medical device company Vertos Medical Inc. has announced the release of clinical study data demonstrating the long-term safety and efficacy of mild as well as its superior durability over epidural steroid injections for treating lumbar spinal stenosis.

8 Mar 2011

Neoprobe reports positive feedback from FDA for RIGScan development

Neoprobe Corporation, a diversified developer of innovative oncology surgical and diagnostic products, today announced that it has completed a successful pre-IND meeting with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on the development of RIGScan CR, the Company's proprietary radiopharmaceutical for the detection of colorectal cancer tumors.

8 Mar 2011

GTHP provides update on FDA PMA review for LightTouch non-invasive cervical cancer test

Guided Therapeutics, Inc., today provided an update on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration review process for its premarket approval application for the LightTouch non-invasive test for the early detection of cervical pre-cancer.

8 Mar 2011

New research finds OSS for health IT may be more secure than other systems

Globally the sale of health care information systems is a multibillion dollar industry. The vast costs, frequent failed systems, and inability of systems to talk to each other regularly attract media comment.

8 Mar 2011

AudioNova, Amplifon's hearing aid and audiology device drive European wholesale market

According to a new report by iData Research, the leading global authority in medical device and pharmaceutical market research, the retail European hearing aid and audiology device market was valued at over €3.8 billion in 2010, while the wholesale market was valued at almost €1.3 billion The retail market is expected to grow rapidly by 2017 due to aggressive growth strategies among local and international retail chains and the adoption of new technologies such as wireless Bluetooth hearing aids and receiver-in-canal models.

8 Mar 2011

University of California, Irvine purchase SpineAssist to conduct minimal invasive surgeries

Mazor Robotics Ltd., a developer of innovative surgical robots and complementary products, announced today that the University of California, Irvine Medical Center has purchased SpineAssist, Mazor Robotics' surgical robotic system that enables surgeons to conduct minimally invasive and complex spine surgeries in a safe and accurate manner.

8 Mar 2011

BrainScope announces launch of Ahead EU-100 to help in head injury assessment

BrainScope Company, Inc. announced today that it is preparing for the introduction of the Ahead™ EU-100, a product in development to aid in the assessment of head injury, in the United Kingdom.

8 Mar 2011

New method of detecting pre-atherosclerotic regions using MEMS thermal sensor

New method could sensitively detect pre-atherosclerotic regions that otherwise showed no clinical signs of atherosclerosis

8 Mar 2011

New advance in tissue engineering

Researchers at the Institute for Regenerative Medicine at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center and colleagues reported today on a new advance in tissue engineering.

8 Mar 2011

Researchers develop new method for DNA sequencing analysis

Up to today, researchers have been limited to running just a few DNA samples at a time, at a cost of SEK 100,000 per run. Now researchers at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm have hit upon a new method that allows 5,000 samples to be run at the same time and at the same price.

8 Mar 2011