Carmat recently announced that its artificial heart was successfully implanted into a person on Dec. 18 during a procedure performed by the Georges Pompidou European Hospital team in Paris. The French company two days later was reporting ...
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Global medical company Sorin has obtained CE Mark approval for the XL version of Perceval, a bioprosthetic device designed to replace a diseased native or malfunctioning prosthetic aortic valve using either traditional or minimally invasive ...
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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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In March 2010, high school student Bobby Ghassemi was taken out of his crashed vehicle and airlifted to a nearby Virginia hospital more dead than alive with severe brain trauma. He was so much more dead than alive that the physician who ...
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The international technology group SCHOTT announced the rebranding of its glass syringes, now known as syriQTM (previously forma 3s). The new name comes on the heels of growth in the field of prefillable syringes, and represents ...
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It costs $21,000 per delivery for a single U.S. baby, $105,000 for twins and more then $400,000 for triplets or more, researchers say. Lead investigator Dongmu Zhang of Global Health Outcomes, Merck & Co. and colleagues analyzed and ...
The Netherlands-based Royal DSM has announced a partnership with US-based BiO2 Medical to supply DSM’s proprietary ComfortCoat lubricious coating and its coating application expertise for use in BiO2 Medical’s Angel catheter. ...
OrSense, a developer of solutions for non-invasive measurements of various blood parameters, announced that it has received the US Food and Drug Administration clearance for its NBM-200MP, noninvasive hemoglobin (Hb) and pulse oximetry ...
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UK-based GlySure has completed patient enrollment for the multicenter CE Mark trial of its in-hospital continuous blood glucose monitoring (CBGM) system. The trial, led by principal investigator Dr Krishna Prasad, comprised 30 post ...
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Palmetto Health unveiled its newest tool in its patient safety arsenal, Xenex’s germ-eliminating robots. The new portable room disinfection system uses pulsed xenon ultraviolet (UV) light that is 25,000 times more powerful than ...
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Prolacta Bioscience, the pioneer of human milk-based nutritional products for premature infants in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), will hold a grand opening event on Thursday, October 24, 2013, at their new facility in City of ...
Sotera Wireless, a medical device company, has obtained an approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its continuous non-invasive blood pressure (cNIBP) technology, a new feature of the ViSi Mobile wireless patient ...
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Tensys Medical has obtained State Food & Drug Administration (SFDA) approval for its new continuous, non-invasive hemodynamic patient monitoring system in the People’s Republic of China. The TL-300 T-Line system comprises of a ...
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With nightmarish superbugs threatening the lives of patients and healthcare workers, hospitals are taking considerable precautions to track who is and who isn't washing their hands. For example, Summerville Medical Center, a 94-bed ...
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The UK’s Health Protection Agency (HPA) has published the results of the fourth HCAI Point Prevalence Survey. The report provides a snapshot of the levels of healthcare-associated infections (HCAI) in Autumn 2011. ...
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