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Blog Post Archive
Bright One Packages Together, Integrates All Personal Diabetes Devices (VIDEO)
Today’s diabetes patients that self-administer insulin end up carrying a small purse full of things like lancets, test strips, a glucometer, and an injector. Tracking sugar levels and insulin injections also requires keeping a notepad handy or using a smartphone app to record the readings. Show More Summary
NanoKnife for Electric Execution of Tumors Gets FDA Approval for IDE Study
There are many methods clinicians use to attack tumors, including chemotherapy, gamma ray beams, and implantable radioactive particles. A new device soon to be trialed in the U.S. for precision ablation of prostate tumors is adding another...Show More Summary
OrthoSensor VERASENSE Helps Surgeons Perfect Total Knee Replacements
OrthoSensor (Sunrise, FL) won FDA clearance for its VERASENSE device, an electronic wireless sensor used in place of tibial trial spacers during total knee replacement procedures to help guarantee proper alignment and balance. The device,...Show More Summary
National Institutes of Health Launches Online Dietary Supplement Label Database
Ever wonder what’s in that vitamin you just popped in your mouth? This week, the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) launched the Dietary Supplement Label Database, which lists ingredients for over 17,000 vitamins, minerals, herbs, and other dietary supplements. Show More Summary
Light Powered Retinal Implants Promise a Bright Cyborgian Future for Many Blind
Retinal prostheses have the potential to bring sight to people that would otherwise stay blind for the rest of their lives due to retinal degenerative disease. While the basics of the technology are getting ironed out, the issues of delivering power to an implant and interfacing it with an external camera remain. Show More Summary
Focal•One Robotic High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound for Prostate Cancer Gets Green Light in EU
EDAP TMS of Vaulx-en-Velin, France received CE Mark approval for its Focal•One robotic High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) system for non-invasive treatment of prostate cancer. The system overlays and fuses 3D MR imaging data with that captured using ultrasound. Show More Summary
New Imaging Technique Monitors Brain Tumor Vessel Formation in Realtime
Close monitoring of tumor growth in laboratory animals can help scientists track the effects of new therapies being studied. Yet, to perform any kind of histology studies, samples have to be taken and the animals often killed in order to perform biopsies. Show More Summary
Light Used to Control a Pair of Peptides, May Lead to Fine Targeting of Drug Activity
A major reason drugs have side effects, is that once ingested they are absorbed by the entire body, rather than just the organ or biochemical mechanism that’s being targeted. Being able to activate drugs precisely where needed can make them fundamentally safer while improving effectiveness. Show More Summary
Fiber-Optic Pen Inexpensively Helps Researchers Study Brains of Children With Disabilities
$100 might not get you far in the medical device industry, but for even less researchers at the University of Washington have managed to develop a tool that will let them see inside the brains of children with learning disabilities while they read and write. Show More Summary
New MRI Technique Improves Visualization of Lesions in Brains of MS Patients
Conventional MRI relies on measuring the amplitude of electromagnetic waves coming off of excited protons as they return to their equilibrium inside the magnetic field. Although the frequency of these signals also contains a good deal of information, it has proven difficult to create algorithms that can make sense of the data. Show More Summary
Mendor Balance Glucose Management Application for Discrete Blood Glucose Meters
Mendor, a Finnish company, has announced that it received the European CE Mark for its Mendor Balance diabetes management software. The web-based application interfaces with the company’s Mendor Discreet glucometer, downloads all the readings, and displays the data for easy analysis. Show More Summary
Sorin REPLY 200 Pacemakers with Sleep Monitoring Win European Clearance
Sorin Group received the CE Mark and is launching in Europe its new REPLY 200 line of cardiac pacemakers. The REPLY 200 SR and DR pacemakers monitor ventilation and provide reports on sleep disturbance with the Sleep Apnea Monitoring (SAM) feature. Show More Summary
Surgeon General Gets a Medgadget Smartphone Physical
News is out that Dr. Regina Benjamin, the Surgeon General, is stepping down from her post next month. She spent the last four years advocating for people to participate in improving their health and for clinical care to better meet patient needs. Show More Summary
Barco’s New CareConnex Clinical Infotainment System Powered by Hospedia
Barco has partnered with Hospedia to introduce the CareConnex, a patient entertainment system that also doubles as an interface for clinicians to access electronic medical records and internal hospital information systems. The system offers a choice of monitors to install in patient rooms, some being touchscreens as large as 18.5?. Show More Summary
Covidien Pipeline Embolization Device Proving Effective for Giant Aneurysms
Covidien is touting results published in this month’s journal Radiology of a U.S. clinical trial of its Pipeline embolization device. The trial, which involved 108 patients with large and giant wide-necked intracranial aneurysms, had as its primary endpoint successful aneurysm occlusion and absence of major stenosis six months post implantation. Show More Summary
Perky Looking MENTOR MemoryShape Breast Implants Get FDA Nod
Mentor Worldwide LLC, a J&J firm that’s a big name in aesthetic surgery products, won FDA approval for its MENTOR MemoryShape breast implants that feature “a more natural shape and youthful feel,” according to a press release. The implants are shaped like a teardrop and are filled with a cohesive gel that helps maintain their 3D profile. Show More Summary
St. Jude Medical’s High Voltage ICD/CRT-Ds Approved in U.S.
St. Jude Medical won FDA approval for the new Ellipse and Assura lines of implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) and cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillators (CRT-Ds). These devices are capable of creating more powerful electric shocks than other cardiac implants and helps prevent abrrasion thanks to a low friction coating. Show More Summary
Equalizer Shooting System for Wheelchair Powered Turkey Hunting (VIDEO)
Most shooting and hunting, unlike many other sports, doesn’t require a lot of running around, but does demand a good deal of patience and dexterity. Severely disabled folks that normally wouldn’t be able to operate a rifle now have a device available on the market that promises to make plinking and hunting fun and accessible even for them. Show More Summary
Codman Neuro’s New REVIVE SE Clot Removal Device for Treatment of Ischemic Strokes
Codman Neuro, part of J&J, won the CE Mark for the new version of its REVIVE SE clot removal device. The tiny self-expanding basket made out of a nitinol mesh is designed to reach inside vasculature in the brain to retrieve a thrombus blocking an artery. Show More Summary
Medtronic’s ReDux Plier for Safer Osteotomy Procedures
Medtronic announced that it received the CE Mark for the company’s new ReDux Plier device that helps orthopedic surgeons improve how they perform pedicle substraction osteotomy (PSO) procedures. People with a sagittal imbalance haveShow More Summary