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Medegrip, Designed by Nurse to Improve Bedside Procedures, Now Available 26 Aug 2013 | 08:07 pm
After years of progress and coverage in these pages, Medegrip is now available in the US. The concept is simple – the shaped foam makes grabbing and twisting motions safer and more effective. So when ...
Update on the JaipurKnee: A Prosthesis for The Developing World (VIDEO) 26 Aug 2013 | 07:22 pm
Hundreds of thousands of people each year are rendered immobile from amputations due to wars, disease and natural disasters in developing countries. For these amputees, the cost of a regular prostheti...
Startup Aims to Ship IV Bags to Remote Disaster Sites Dry, Fill via Forward Osmosis (VIDEO) 26 Aug 2013 | 06:29 pm
More than 5 million people who suffer from cholera each year do not have easy access to IV bags. This results in more than 120,000 deaths due to cholera-related dehydration each year. Yet IV bags cost...
Surgical Risk Calculator Aims for Accurate Pre-Op Assessment 26 Aug 2013 | 06:08 pm
In order for a patient to make an informed decision on whether surgery is appropriate, doctors and patients must be on equal ground regarding the specific risk factors involved. In some instances, suc...
Eclipse Breast-Self Exam Device Now on Indiegogo Raising Funds for Commercialization 23 Aug 2013 | 09:26 pm
Breast self-exams are a touchy subject not only literally, but because many women doing them are poorly trained and either miss suspicious lumps or raise alarms on false positives. Eclipse Breast Heal...
fMRI Used to Read What The Brain is Seeing 23 Aug 2013 | 06:45 pm
Generalization to new letter classes. Each letter is predicted using models trained on BOLD data for the remaining letter classes. Extending the prior to include the new letter class is shown to subst...
NovoPen Echo Insulin Injection Device with Half-Unit Dosing, Memory Function 22 Aug 2013 | 08:55 pm
Novo Nordisk just announced that the FDA has cleared its NovoPen Echo insulin injection device, the only one available in the U.S. that’s able to deliver half-unit doses of insulin. This is particular...
Re-Mission 2: Nanobot’s Revenge Video Game Fights Virtual Tumors, Helps With Real Ones 22 Aug 2013 | 08:03 pm
Re-Mission 2, a set of video games designed by a nonprofit org called HopeLab for kids living with cancer, has been available on PCs and through an online browser, but now Re-Mission 2: Nanobot’s Reve...
Boston Sci’s High Resolution IntellaTip MiFi XP Cardiac Ablation Catheter FDA Approved 21 Aug 2013 | 11:48 pm
Boston Scientific‘s IntellaTip MiFi XP ablation catheter has successfully cleared its clinical trials and the company was given FDA approval to introduce the device in the U.S. for treatment of atrial...
AngioDynamics BioFlo Port with Endexo Technology Helps Prevent Thrombus Accumulation, Gets FDA Nod 21 Aug 2013 | 11:33 pm
Navilyst Medical, an AngioDynamics company, received FDA clearance for its BioFlo Port with Endexo technology. The port is designed to be placed under the skin for long term delivery of medication, ch...
