The European Union has granted CE mark certification to ApiFix's minimally invasive treatment system for use in patients with Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis (AIS). Designed as an alternative to complex spinal surgeries, the ApiFix AIS ...
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Medtronic has launched new MR-Conditional pacing system for use with MRI scanners in the US, following the approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The Advisa DR MRI SureScan pacing system, which includes an Advisa MRI ...
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 ...
A new study has looked at how certain gene variants may predict whether an individual is likely to develop age-related macular degeneration (AMD). This eye disease affects over nine million Americans, but it has been found that certain ...
Acceleron Pharma has announced that the Gynecologic Oncology Group (GOG) has sponsored its phase 2 study of dalantercept. Patients with persistent or recurrent ovarian, fallopian tube or primary peritoneal cancer are taking part in the ...
Kips Bay Medical has treated the first US patient in a multi-center, randomized eMESH I clinical trial using its extravascular nitinol (nickel titanium alloy) prosthesis. The prosthesis, eSVS Mesh, is used as an external saphenous vein ...
Zoll Medical has gained Shonin approval from the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) for its intravascular temperature management (IVTM) system, designed for use in neurologically injured patients to control fever. The ...
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Pittsburgh-based ALung Technologies has gained Health Canada approval for its Hemolung Respiratory Assist System (RAS), designed for treating patients with acute hypercapnic respiratory failure including acute respiratory distress syndrome ...
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St Jude Medical has treated the first patient with 25 mm Portico Transcatheter aortic heart valve using the transfemoral delivery system in its ongoing non-randomized, multi-center European trial. Made of bovine pericardial tissue, the 25 ...
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VentriPoint Diagnostics has submitted a 510(k) application to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) seeking approval for its 2D-ultrasound system, designed for measuring right ventricle heart function in patients with pulmonary arterial ...
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Intersect ENT has started a blinded, multi-center, prospective, randomized clinical study, Resolve, of its new steroid delivery implant for treating patients with recurrent sinus obstruction. The implant, which is designed as an ...
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ScinoPharm and Foresee Pharmaceuticals have signed an agreement to form a joint venture for developing a series of peptide injectable drugs with the first being a new oncological Leuprolide injectable drug used for treating prostate cancer. ...
MolecularMD has obtained an exclusive license to LKB1 for diagnostic, prognostic and predictive uses in non-small cell lung cancer patients. The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, the Massachusetts General Hospital, the University of North ...
Medtronic has completed patient enrollment in controlled, multicenter, prospective IN.PACT SFA II clinical trial of its IN.PACT Admiral drug-eluting balloon device for treating patients with peripheral artery disease in the superficial ...
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US-based CorMatrix Cardiovascular has completed trial on its ECM technology that helps in closing the pericardium of patients undergoing postoperative coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) and said the trial results confirm its safe use. ...
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