Black women in the United States are much more likely to have high blood pressure than black men or white women and men, according to a new study. The researchers also found that blacks are twice as likely as whites to have undiagnosed ...
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US-based medical technology company Medtronic has announced the randomization of the first patients in the SYMPLICITY HTN-4 clinical trial at Medical University of South Carolina, Piedmont Heart Institute and Duke University Medical Center. ...
US-based Boston Scientific has obtained an approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its Promus PREMIER everolimus-eluting platinum chromium coronary stent system. The company's next-generation durable polymer ...
Oxytocin, the "bonding hormone" between mother and child, may also be the bonding hormone between husband and wife, researchers in Germany and China say. Dr. Rene Hurlemann, executive senior physician at the Inpatient and Outpatient ...
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DNA-based prediction of taller-than-average body height is feasible, say researchers in the Netherlands and Sweden. Professor Manfred Kayser of the Department of Forensic Molecular Biology at Erasmus University Medical Center in ...
A Chicago-area surgeon says many sprains, bruises, broken bones and other injuries incurred in Thanksgiving pick-up football games are preventable. Dr. Pietro Tonino of the Loyola University Medical Center said many injuries suffered in ...
Chicken and oc may seem like an obvious pairing to culinary enthusiasts, but at least one Pennsylvania farm is demonstrating its extraordinary health benefits in food production as well. For three years or so, chickens at Bell & Evans have ...
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Eating plenty of oily fish, which is rich in omega-3 fatty acids and other life-giving nutrients, several times a week can significantly reduce people's risk of having a stroke or developing other cerebrovascular diseases. These are the ...
Medtronic has obtained an investigational device exemption from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to initiate SYMPLICITY HTN-4 clinical trial using its Symplicity renal denervation system. SYMPLICITY HTN-4 study has been designed ...
Baxano Surgical, a medical device company, has introduced its iO-Tome device, a new minimally invasive disposable facetectomy instrument that aid surgeons to perform rapid and safe facetectomies in certain interbody spinal fusion ...
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US-based medical device company TherOx has successfully completed the patient enrollment in its multicenter investigational device exemption (IDE) pilot study to evaluate the second generation system that delivers supersaturated oxygen ...
Integrity Applications, an Israel-based medical device company, has received CE Mark approval for its GlucoTrack DF-F non-invasive device. The GlucoTrack DF-F is a glucose measuring device that uses a patented combination of ultrasound, ...
Invendo Medical, a developer of disposable endoscopy products, has installed its single-use colonoscope at two GI endoscopy centers including NYU Langone Medical Center and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center. ...
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Velomedix has completed enrollment of the first patient in Velocity clinical study of its rapid therapeutic hypothermia system for treating acute myocardial infarction (AMIs or heart attacks). Using a peritoneal-based approach, the ...
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CardioFocus will complete full patient enrollment in a US pivotal clinical trial of its HeartLight catheter ablation system in 2013. The 350 patient-based trial, which is evaluating and comparing the safety and efficacy of the company's ...