SpineGuard has received 510(k) clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for three new products, designed to enhance pedicle screw penetration of small and/or difficult-to-access pedicles. The two miniaturized versions of ...
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Cook Medical has announced that effective October 1, 2013, its Zilver PTX drug-eluting peripheral stent qualifies for new-technology add-on payments under Medicare’s hospital inpatient prospective payment system. In order to qualify ...
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Medical technology company Lombard Medical Technologies successfully treated the first US patients with Aorfix, its flexible stent graft for the endovascular repair of abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs). Meriter Hospital vascular surgeon ...
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Australia-based Allied Healthcare Group has received CE mark approval for its lead regenerative product called CardioCel, which is used in treating congenital heart disease and repairing heart valves. The approval will help the company to ...
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Surgical products developer Zimmer Holdings has received 510(k) clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market its Patient Specific Instruments (PSI) Shoulder system. The system enables surgeons to plan the implant ...
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Medical devices developer Tissue Regeneration Systems has obtained 510(k) clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its new Cranial Bone Void Filler product designed for repair of neurosurgical burr holes. The new ...
US-based Health Insurance Innovations (HII) has launched Principle Advantage, a guaranteed-issue limited benefit plan, with Companion Life Insurance to address specialty insurance markets. The affordable fixed-benefit plan, which is an ...
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Worker Benjamin Tracey was attempting to clear a blockage in a newly installed form, fill and seal machine at a food manufacturer's in Halstead, Essex, when its heated jaws closed on his left index finger and a knife mechanism fired into ...
PFM Medical, a developer and manufacturer of minimally invasive medical devices for cardio vascular technology, vascular access, surgery, and oncology, has received the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) premarket approval for its ...
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In business for almost 50 years, Petticoat Fair was recently named "Best Destination Store" at the prestigious 2013 Best of Intima Awards gala, hosted in New York by The Best of Intima magazine. Petticoat Fair was nominated by a team of ...
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Electric wiring is the first thing for any set up and the last thing to get over. Every normal set up requires the electric connectivity as without it no work can be done. There are different segments to electrical wiring and all the ...
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CoAlign Innovations, a US-based medical device company, has received the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for its AccuLIF XL lateral expandable interbody fusion devices. The new AccuLIF interbody system utilizes low-profile ...
Increasing demand for antimicrobials from end-user applications such as medical devices boosts the antimicrobial coatings market in Asia-Pacific. The need to minimize infection and in turn, the cost of treatment has spurred the use of ...
Northwestern's Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute has recently enrolled first patient in ABSORB III, a clinical trial to compare the performance of Abbott's drug eluting Absorb Bioresorbable Vascular Scaffold (BVS) device with other traditional ...
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Soft Tissue Regeneration has received a patent number 8,486,143 relating to the L-C Ligament, an investigational device for soft tissue regeneration of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) of the knee, from the US Patent and Trademark ...