Smith & Nephew, a medical technology company, has agreed to acquire the assets and business of Politec Saude relating to Smith & Nephew’s Advanced Wound Management products in Brazil. In 2013 Smith & Nephew announced its intention ...
AB SCIEX, a developer of mass spectrometry products, has announced the launch of its AB SCIEX IVD-MS analyzer CE marked for general in vitro diagnostic use in Europe. The release of this mass spectrometry-based analyzer is in response to ...
Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a new type of nanoparticle, which can be taken orally and gets successfully absorbed through the digestive tract. The nanoparticles ...
Tags: nanoparticle, Medicine
Researchers say the traditional U.S. Thanksgiving turkey contains no more sleep-inducing tryptophan than beef -- and less than pork and cod. A report in the British Medical Journal said the Thanksgiving dinner is likely to make people ...
U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius said tips on other holiday shopping can be useful for consumers shopping for health insurance. Sebelius, in a blog post on the Huffington Post website, advised people planning ...
A food science journal has retracted a French study linking genetically modified foods to tumors and organ failure in rats that went viral on the Internet. Elsevier, the publisher of the journal, Food and Chemical Toxicity, said it was ...
Males that expect sex -- and don't get it -- experience serious health consequences and age faster, at least in fruit flies, U.S. researchers say. Senior author Scott D. Pletcher, a professor at the University of Michigan Medical School ...
Package labels are becoming the "go to" place when people have questions about food, but U.S. researchers say consumers want more information. Harry M. Kaiser, Jura Liaukonyte, Nadia A. Streletskaya and Bradley J. Rickard of Cornell ...
Those wanting to serve their guests healthier wines should look for the darkest-colored reds made from grapes grown in the sunniest vineyards, U.S. experts say. Dr. Leroy Creasy, a wine researcher and professor emeritus at Cornell ...
Tags: Agriculture, Health, Medicine, Wine
US-basedd VuCOMP has announced that M-Vu CAD, the first mammography CAD product clinically proven in a pivotal reader study, is available as a companion technology for the Siemens MAMMOMAT Inspiration PRIME Edition, MAMMOMAT Inspiration, ...
Tags: Healthcare, Health, Medicine
Bruin Biometrics has reported results from the two Institutional Review Board-approved clinical trials conducted with its SEM Scanner to detect pressure ulcers. SEM Scanner is a class IIA medical device developed by Bruin Biometrics in ...
Tags: Biometrics, Health, Medicine
US-based Analogic has introduced the proprietary Vector Flow Imaging (VFI) Assist mode, a pioneering technique for measuring blood flow utilizing the BK Flex Focus 800 and 500 ultrasound systems, and the ProFocus UltraView 800 ultrasound ...
Tags: Health, Medicine, BK Ultrasound Systems
Echo Therapeutics, a medical device company, has reported positive results from its clinical trial of the Symphony CGM wireless continuous glucose monitoring system in surgical patients in hospital critical care units. Echo Therapeutics ...
Amedica, a biomaterials company, has announced collaboration with Kyocera Industrial Ceramics, a ceramics producer, to manufacture medical devices from Amedica's silicon nitride biomaterial at Kyocera's Vancouver, Washington facility. ...
Tags: Health, Medicine, biomaterials
US-based Bruker has obtained 510(k) clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its MALDI Biotyper CA system to identify Gram negative bacterial colonies cultured from human specimens. Bruker's MALDI Biotyper CA system ...