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Medical and health applications for iPhones, Blackberry devices, Android phones and other mobile gadgets already number in the thousands. The problem is that only one app, AirStrip OB , actually earned FDA's explicit blessings to be marketed as a medical device. So the big question is whether ...
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In order to illustrate societal and personal expenditures that common diseases can levy, GE combined data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) and its own proprietary database, and developed an interactive chart that displays diseases and what their average costs are depending on ...
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Students at University of Massachusetts, Lowell developed a low cost robot arm specifically designed to open doors. They presented the DORA (Door Opening Robotic Arm) last week at the IEEE robotics conference in Woburn, Massachusetts, and the New Scientist is reporting that the device was ...
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Medicare's Rules Pinching Patients ... [WSJ]
U.N.: HIV Outbreak Peaked in 1996 ... [WSJ]
GOP Rep. on Mammograms: "This Is How Rationing Begins"... [CBS]
A difference of opinions on mammograms... [WaPo]
'Coma' man conscious for 23 years... [BBC]
FDA Announces New Warning on Plavix: ...
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At next week's annual RSNA (Radiological Society of North America) meeting, Diagnosoft out of Morrisville, NC and Palo Alto, CA will be showing off its new MRI technique for measuring the myocardial dynamics. The SENC method is currently available on certain Philips MRI scanners, but can be ...
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The results from a three year clinical trial of Abbott 's bioabsorbable drug eluting stent are in, and they look quite promising. The first 30 patients in the phase I of the ABSORB trial demonstrated "no blood clots (stent thrombosis) and no new major adverse cardiac events after six months ...
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Glowing in the dark has always been contributed to people exposed to radiation in cartoons (think Homer Simpson) and in popular myths about nuclear accidents (Chernobyl). Turns out we all glow continuously, but with a diurnal rhythm, as long as we have a powerful enough digital camera to detect ...
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Boston Scientific has announced that its WallFlex® Fully Covered Esophageal Stent received 510(k) clearance from the FDA as well as EU's CE Mark of approval. The stent is designed for esophageal strictures caused by cancer of the esophagus. The use of stents can re-open a blocked ...
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Though DNA inside cells gets regularly damaged, errors are typically quickly reset by a still poorly understood molecular mechanism. It has been suspected that repair enzymes actually walk the length of the DNA molecule fixing errors along the way. But the number of base pairs within each gene ...
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University of Florida Researcher Huikai Xie is working on an endoscopic imaging technique using a tiny infrared scanning technology that, when placed near the surface of a tissue, moves rapidly back and forth to not only provide high resolution images of epithelial tissue, but also peer ...
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The University of Utah's Genetic Science Learning Center has developed a fun flash application that allows you to quickly zoom from a coffee bean to a carbon atom to see the relative size of cells, cellular components, pathogens, small molecules, and more.
From the University of Utah:
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We are pleased to announce that we now have an adequate number of entries for this year's Sci Fi Writing Contest . But if you are a talented writer, the opportunity is still here, and you still can win a brand new Amazon Kindle. So get your talent and imagination together, write a short ...
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Here's another piece of news about medical gadgetry released at the ongoing Medica 2009. The Infinity M540 from Drägerwerk AG & Co. (aka Dräger) is designed to provide portability and full functionality of a stationary vitals signs monitor:
The Dräger Infinity M540 ...
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RANDOX Laboratories , a diagnostics company from Crumlin, UK, is releasing in Düsseldorf at Medica 2009 a new semi-automated analyzer that can perform detection of up to 12 analytes from a single patient sample in under 20 minutes. The Evidence MultiStat™ can save lives of cardiac ...
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We are continuing to profile the latest gadgets that are being showcased at the Medica 2009 in Düsseldorf. This beautiful line of cold OR light systems, appropriately dubbed Polaris, comes from Drägerwerk AG & Co., a company better known to everyone as Dräger.
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At the ongoing Medica 2009 in Düsseldorf, Esaote out of Genoa, Italy is releasing a new portable ultrasound system that features a 12 inch touch screen for manipulating settings without having to use buttons. The My Lab One can be worn on a shoulder strap and is designed for mobile ...
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Safe Life Corporation (San Diego, CA) recently released a new respirator that looks and feels more like a traditional surgical face mask. We received a copy of the A400 respirator for review and spent about a half hour wearing it to see how it feels.
The new Safe Life A400 N95 Respirator ...
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This week at MEDICA2009 in Düsseldorf, Enigma Diagnostics out of Wiltshire, UK is unveiling its new polymerase chain reaction (PCR) apparatus. The Enigma ML provides almost fool proof testing using single disposable reagent cartridges, and can be expanded to run multiple PCR tests in ...
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Well, we're back with more circulating tumor cell (CTC) news. This one comes from a new study published by UCLA scientists that describes a new technology to capture CTCs for analysis. The device is a silicon chip covered in nano-pillars coated with a special antibody to cause circulating tumor ...
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Scientists out of Simon Fraser University in Canada have developed a chemical switch that can paralyze C. elegans nematodes and bring them back to mobility when triggered by an external light.
The JACS report describes development and successful testing of a photoswitch composed of the ...
