After 85 years, antibiotics are growing impotent. So what will medicine, agriculture and everyday life look like if we lose these drugs entirely? A few years ago, I started looking online to fill in chapters of my family history that no ...
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Posted in Cardiovascular by Qmed Staff on November 19, 2013 The Sapien 3 could be used in a broader range of patients than earlier TAVR products introduced internationally. Edwards Lifesciences (Irvine, CA) is in the news after The ...
With this coming February being American Heart Month and with the holiday gluttony behind us, maybe this is a good time to look at the causes and cure for heart disease. Heart disease is the number one killer in civilized nations with ...
For many industries, innovation helps to drive down product prices. Over the past few decades, entry-level computers have decreased in price from thousands of dollars to only a few hundred. 1980 saw the debut of IBM's personal computer, ...
To meet the needs of the high velocity world of e-commerce, conveyors and sortation systems must be a smart, fast and efficient component of a production or order fulfillment engine. Driven by the need for flexibility, speed and maximum ...
Northwestern's Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute has recently enrolled first patient in ABSORB III, a clinical trial to compare the performance of Abbott's drug eluting Absorb Bioresorbable Vascular Scaffold (BVS) device with other traditional ...
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A toy plane that the late astronaut Neil Armstrong played with as a child is expecting to fetch as much as $2,500 at auction. The red metal toy was owned by the first man to walk on the moon and will be auctioned off this month in the US ...
Medtronic has obtained regulatory approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to conduct an early feasibility study on its Native Outflow Tract transcatheter pulmonary valve (TPV), designed for the treatment of patients with ...
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Biomet, a manufacturer of orthopedic and biotechnology products, has begun enrolling patients in its prospective, randomized, controlled, multicenter SternaLock Blu clinical trial. The trial will evaluate sternal bone healing after full ...
Hugh Walton is going back to work for Descente, the clothing brand with which he has had a long relationship. Walton, still recovering from a stroke and open heart surgery last year, is the new assistant manager of Descente North ...
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Mark Large, GOSH IT director, said: "Our clinicians told us that they want to use Apple technology, so it is something we are embracing, and have created one of the best infrastructures in the world to make it happen." "What is ...
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Iraqi President Jalal Talabani (pictured) has suffered a stroke and is being treated in hospital. A statement on his website said he was admitted on Monday night suffering from “fatigue and tiredness”. His medical team is ...
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St Jude Medical has received CE mark approval for its Portico Transcatheter aortic heart valve which is designed to treat patients with severe aortic stenosis who are at intermediate risk for undergoing open-heart surgery. The 23 mm ...
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Regulators must force banks to overhaul complex IT infrastructures which risk causing further large-scale system outages, IT trade body Intellect has urged. The UK’s financial IT infrastructure is no longer fit for purpose and risks ...
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Medtronic has treated the first US patient in a global, multicenter clinical trial, designed to compare the accuracy of its CoreValve system with surgical aortic valve replacement in treating patients with severe aortic stenosis and who are ...