A new study in General Hospital Psychiatry finds patients visiting the hospital for a variety of ailments can be easily screened for depression and anxiety as they wait for care, information that can then be sent immediately to their doctor ...
Tags: Waiting room time, Depression, Anxiety
Biosense Webster has obtained an approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its Thermocool Smarttouch catheter that enables direct and real-time measurement of contact force during catheter ablation procedures for patients ...
Tags: FDA Approval, Biosense Webster
To develop correctly, baby hearts need rhythm...even before they have blood to pump. "We have discovered that mechanical forces are important when making baby hearts," said Mary Kathryn Sewell-Loftin, a Vanderbilt graduate student working ...
Tags: Baby Heart, Rhythm, Roadmap, SysCODE
Stryker has announced the global launch of its new Trevo XP ProVue retriever, which expands the ProVue retriever line with additional size and shape options for physicians. Stryker claims that the Trevo ProVue retrievers are the ...
Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Concise Analysis of the International Medical Device Connectivity Market - Forecasts to 2019" report to their offering. Acquiring medical device data for automated documentation in ...
Tags: Medical Device, MDC, GAGR, EMR
The first clinical study of a low-cost neonatal breathing system created by Rice University bioengineering students demonstrated that the device increased the survival rate of newborns with severe respiratory illness from 44 percent to 71 ...
Tags: Respiratory Illness, premature babies, CPAP
There is a growing need for Cognitive Rehabilitation Therapy (CRT) due to the huge influx of soldiers returning from war zones with brain injuries, athletes with sports-related head injuries, and the growing population with age-related ...
Clinicians and patients should use shared decision-making to select individualized treatments based on the new guidelines to prevent cardiovascular disease, according to a commentary by three Mayo Clinic physicians published in this week's ...
Tags: cardiovascular disease, Cardiology, cholesterol guidelines
A group of prominent healthcare experts including bioethicists, pharmacists, policymakers and cancer specialists have proposed concrete steps for preventing and managing a nightmare scenario that is becoming all too common: shortages of ...
Tags: Healthcare, Life-Saving Drugs
The national drug store chain CVS Caremark said Wednesday that it's phasing out the sale of tobacco products at its more than 7,600 stores across the United States. The company said cigarettes, cigars and chewing tobacco will no longer be ...
Tags: Tobacco, cigarettes, cigars, chewing tobacco
Hospi Corporation, a privately-held medical device company focused on nurse invented products that optimize patient care, today announced receipt of 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its first product, the Macy ...
Natera, a leading innovator in prenatal genetic testing, today announced the initiation of a distribution partnership with ProPath, a wholly physician-owned provider of pathology services to clinicians and medical facilities in the United ...
Tegra Medical Tegra Medical announces the appointment of Mr.J.Mark King as its new Chief Executive Officer. BOSTON,MA,January 15,2014-Tegra Medical is very pleased to announce the appointment of Mr.J.Mark King as its new Chief Executive ...
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Omnicell,Inc.(OMCL)today announced that its Pandora®business analytics solutions are now available for customers in the Middle East markets.Pandora is a leading medication and supply automation analytics tool in United States hospitals ...
The Annals of the American Thoracic Society has released a comprehensive supplement on the 56th annual Thomas L. Petty Aspen Lung Conference entitled "The Lung Microbiome: A New Frontier in Pulmonary Medicine." More than 170 ...