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Grifols provides Procleix Zika Virus Assay to screen blood donations in countries that accept products with CE marking

Grifols, one of the world’s leading producers of plasma-derived medicines, now provides European countries accepting products with the CE marking with a test to detect the presence of the Zika virus in donated blood. CE marking means a product conforms to relevant legislation for sale in the European economic area.

29 May 2017

New sleep system helps profoundly disabled 5-year-old boy with complex care needs to get full night's sleep

A 5-year-old boy, who is profoundly disabled and has complex needs, has been given his first full night’s sleep thanks to a pioneering new sleep system.

29 May 2017

University of Maryland to introduce PhysiMax’s movement assessment technology across athletic teams

PhysiMax, a ground-breaking sports technology company, and the University of Maryland Athletics department, announced today that PhysiMax’s movement assessment technology will be widely introduced across the University’s athletic department.

29 May 2017

World’s first Percutaneous Injectable Anchor System receives CE Mark approval

Freedom Neuro BV, a medical device distributor for Stimwave Technologies Incorporated, today announced CE Mark approval for the world's first Percutaneous Injectable Anchor System.

27 May 2017

Dragon Master Foundation to fund DIPG trial that will make patient data available live in the cloud

Dragon Master Foundation has announced plans to provide $300,000 in funding for the first clinical trial that will make patient data available live in the cloud while the trial is underway.

27 May 2017

Open-access BRCA testing for inherited breast cancer enables identification of missed carriers

Ashkenazi Jewish women are known to have a predisposition to the inherited breast cancers BRCA1 and BRCA2, but currently genetic testing in this group is limited to women affected by breast and ovarian cancers and those who are unaffected but have a family history of the disease.

27 May 2017

New device can help stroke patients recover some control over paralyzed limbs

Stroke patients who learned to use their minds to open and close a device fitted over their paralyzed hands gained some control over their hands, according to a new study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

26 May 2017

Researchers use chemical array to find malignant cells within melanoma tumor

Melanoma is a particularly difficult cancer to treat once it has metastasized, spreading throughout the body. University of Illinois researchers are using chemistry to find the deadly, elusive malignant cells within a melanoma tumor that hold the potential to spread.

26 May 2017

Norwegian study shows huge potential of Sigmascreening’s pressure based paddle for women’s health

Sigmascreening, a Dutch MedTech developer and world leader in the field of pressure based digital mammography and breast cancer screening, announces that a large independent Norwegian study further confirms Sigma’s hypothesis that pressure has a clear relation with the most optimal results in mammography.

26 May 2017

New NMR machine at TSRI’s Florida campus will help advance drug development process

The Nuclear Magnetic Resonance facility at the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute is becoming one of the most advanced in South Florida, thanks to a new $600,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health.

26 May 2017

Newly developed ultrafast cardiac imaging test changes clinical management in one-third of patients

Researchers in the UK and Peru have developed a faster and cheaper cardiac imaging test that can be used in developing countries, according to the results of the INCA-Peru study presented today at EuroCMR 2017.

26 May 2017

LMD’s V-Sensor and app could reduce number of avoidable deaths in India

Leman Micro Devices, the developer of regulated consumer healthcare products that is backed by major players within the mobile device industry, has announced that its V-Sensor and app - the only smartphone-integrated solution that measures blood pressure and other vital signs with medical accuracy – will satisfy new requirements imposed by changes in laws governing the use of medical devices in India, and will therefore be suitable for use in the Indian market.

26 May 2017

ERT’s Centralized LCI Services improve data quality to measure disease progression in respiratory clinical trials

ERT, a global data and technology company that minimizes uncertainty and risk in clinical trials, today introduced an advanced respiratory clinical trial solution to centrally capture, measure and analyze Lung Clearance Index data, in near real-time, to assess lung performance with more precision than traditional spirometry measures.

26 May 2017

OGT makes several advances in hybridization-based targeted sequencing

Oxford Gene Technology, The Molecular Genetics Company, has made several advances in hybridisation-based target enrichment protocols that now enable researchers to prepare samples for sequencing in just one day.

26 May 2017

Preventing newborn baby deaths in ambulances with new stretcher

Academics and industry partners in Birmingham are developing a new device that will ensure newborn babies could survive in the event of a crash in an ambulance at up to 40 miles per hour.

From ParAid Medical 26 May 2017

UK Lebanon Tech Hub to fund research and development of non-invasive blood glucose-monitoring device

UK Lebanon Tech Hub announced today that it will fund the research and development of ediamond (Electromagnetic Diabetes Monitoring Device): a one of its kind non-invasive blood glucose-monitoring device, which is being developed by the Maroun Semaan faculty of Engineering and Architecture and the Faculty of Medicine at the American University of Beirut.

26 May 2017

Researchers develop new method for rapidly sorting HIV viruses

Researchers at EMBL, ESPCI Paris, and the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative have developed a new technique for rapidly sorting HIV viruses, which could lead to more rapid development of a vaccine for HIV, as they report in Cell Chemical Biology.

25 May 2017

FDA grants approval for new magnetic device used to treat pediatric esophageal atresia

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted authorization for a magnetic device used to treat pediatric esophageal atresia, a birth defect that causes abnormal formation of the esophagus.

25 May 2017

Mettler Toledo GWP verification helps pharmaceutical company decide on weighing equipment

For more than 200 years, the German-based company Klosterfrau Healthcare Group has been developing, manufacturing and selling pharmaceutical products. Its portfolio combines traditional remedies with modern drug therapies and encompasses more than 30 brands and nearly 220 over-the-counter products.

25 May 2017

Bedfont Scientific offers chance to win new Smokerlyzer for World No Tobacco Day

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Device / Technology News

Grifols provides Procleix Zika Virus Assay to screen blood donations in countries that accept products with CE marking

New sleep system helps profoundly disabled 5-year-old boy with complex care needs to get full night's sleep

University of Maryland to introduce PhysiMax’s movement assessment technology across athletic teams

World’s first Percutaneous Injectable Anchor System receives CE Mark approval

Dragon Master Foundation to fund DIPG trial that will make patient data available live in the cloud

Open-access BRCA testing for inherited breast cancer enables identification of missed carriers

New device can help stroke patients recover some control over paralyzed limbs

Researchers use chemical array to find malignant cells within melanoma tumor

Norwegian study shows huge potential of Sigmascreening’s pressure based paddle for women’s health

New NMR machine at TSRI’s Florida campus will help advance drug development process

Newly developed ultrafast cardiac imaging test changes clinical management in one-third of patients

LMD’s V-Sensor and app could reduce number of avoidable deaths in India

ERT’s Centralized LCI Services improve data quality to measure disease progression in respiratory clinical trials

OGT makes several advances in hybridization-based targeted sequencing

Preventing newborn baby deaths in ambulances with new stretcher

UK Lebanon Tech Hub to fund research and development of non-invasive blood glucose-monitoring device

Researchers develop new method for rapidly sorting HIV viruses

FDA grants approval for new magnetic device used to treat pediatric esophageal atresia

Mettler Toledo GWP verification helps pharmaceutical company decide on weighing equipment

Bedfont Scientific offers chance to win new Smokerlyzer for World No Tobacco Day

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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