If you're taking vitamin D pills to ease arthritis in your knee, you might want to reconsider. The supplement didn't stand up to rigorous testing in a clinical study out this week. In the 2-year study, 146 men and women with painful ...
Tags: knee arthritis, vitamin D, clinical study, vitamin
Tandem Diabetes Care has expanded its development and commercialization agreement to include Dexcom's continuous glucose monitor (CGM), designed to detect trends and tracking patterns in persons (age 18 and older) with diabetes. The ...
Tags: Tandem Diabetes Care, Dexcom, CGM, diabetes
Volition has announced a new collaboration with the Wales Cancer Bank,with the two businesses set to carry out an internal clinical study for the Nucleosomics diagnostic products. At the end of this month,tests will be carried out on ...
Tags: Volition, Wales Cancer Bank, Nucleosomics diagnostic products
SinuSys has received regulatory approvals from Health Canada and Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) for its AerOs sinus dilation system, designed for the treatment of chronic sinusitis. Designed for use in office-based ...
Tags: SinuSys, Health Canada, Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration
Thoratec has gained an investigational device exemption(IDE)from the US Food and Drug Administration(FDA)for the initiation of a feasibility clinical study of its continuous-flow left ventricular assist device(LVAD),for the treatment of ...
Wound management systems provider PolyRemedy has released clinical study results of its HealSmart Personalized Antimicrobial dressings. The study,which was conducted at St.James Home Health Services,compared healing rates of 73 chronic ...
Tags: PolyRemedy, Healsmart, wound, clinical study
Global medical device company St Jude Medical has enrolled the first patient in its ILUMIEN I observational clinical study. The objective of the study is to determine that an intravascular imaging technology, Optical Coherence Tomography ...
Boston Scientific has implanted the first patient with a new version of its Ingevity pacing leads, designed for use in the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) environment, in a clinical study. The pacing leads, which are expected be paired ...
The UK government has provided funds to Endomagnetics to explore the clinical feasibility of applying magnetic sentinel lymph node (SLN) technology for detecting melanoma cancer. The grant is a part of the first round of ...
Tags: UK Fund, Endomagnetics, clinical program, melanoma cancer
Volcano has announced positive results from a ADAPT-DES IVUS sub-study, which demonstrated that stent procedures guided by intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) reduces stent thrombosis and myocardial infarction (MI) as well as improve patient ...
ConvaTec has reported in vitro study data of its Aquacel Ag dressing, demonstrating that it can kill several strains of multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs). MDROs included in the study consist of Acinetobacter baumannii, ...
Tags: ConvaTec, clinical study, Aquacel Ag Dressing, medical technology
Sapheon has reported one year follow-up results from a 38-patient clinical study of its VenaSeal Sapheon closure system, designed to treat saphenous vein disease. VenaSeal system, which comprises a proprietary vein sealant and custom ...
A new clinical study found that Bayer's blood glucose monitoring (BGM) system CONTOUR Next EZ meter and CONTOUR Next test strips proved easy to use and highly accurate when used by both patients and their healthcare professionals (HCPs). ...
Tags: medical system, clinical trial, blood glucose monitoring system
GE Healthcare has purchased U-Systems, a manufacturer of ultrasound products for breast applications. As part of the deal, GE Healthcare will acquire U-Systems' somo v Automated Breast Ultrasound (ABUS) system, designed for screening ...
Tags: GE Healthcare, purchase, U-Systems, ABUS system, clinical study
Baptist South Medical Center is enrolling mastectomy patients into a clinical study of new tissue expansion method designed to evaluate a new tissue expansion method for those who choose to undergo breast reconstruction. The randomized, ...
Tags: Baptist South Medical Center, mastectomy patients, clinical study