Radiation exposure from a CT scan is about 350 times higher than from an ordinary chest X-ray. Yet some hospitals, including several large, well-known ones, continue to order too many of them, exposing patients to needless risk and expense, ...
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CardioKinetix has completed enrolling the first patient in PARACHUTE IV trial of its Parachute ventricular partitioning device for treating heart failure patients. The minimally invasive device is deployed into the left ventricle to ...
University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG) has treated the first patient using its RePneu lung volume reduction coil (LVRC), designed for relieving breathing difficulty in patients with severe emphysema, in RENEW pivotal trial. The ...
Sunshine Heart has obtained a conditional approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its investigational device exemption (IDE)) implantable heart assist device. The non-blood contacting C-Pulse Heart Assist device, ...
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Vascular Insights, a manufacturer of peripheral vascular devices, has started a multi-center dose-finding study of its non-thermal vein ablation ClariVein system, designed to treat venous reflux diseases. The ClariVein system uses ...
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Cook Medical has presented three-year data from Zilver PTX trial, which demonstrated 70.7% primary patency in the superficial femoral artery at 36 months using Paclitaxel-eluting stents. The controlled, randomized trail compares to ...
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New Jersey-based University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro (UMCPP) has completed the installation of Patient SafetyNet by Masimo, an American developer of noninvasive monitoring technologies. Patient SafetyNet, which comprises ...
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EndoStim has received CE mark approval for its LES Stimulation system, designed to treat gastro-esophageal reflux disease (GERD) and eliminate the need for daily proton pump inhibitor (PPI) medication. By using low energy electrical ...
Proposed ASTM standards for aerosol products and artists pastels are among the current activities of Subcommittee D01.57 on Artist Paints and Related Materials,part of ASTM International Committee D01 on Paint and Related Coatings,Materials ...
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Seven employees at Sun Chemical's US Ink Plant,located in East Rutherford NJ,were transported to Hackensack University Medical Center following what appears to have been an explosion or flash fire in the pre-mix room of the plant at ...
Aushon is planning to launch its new multiplex protein biomarker platform, which the company says incorporates several engineering breakthroughs to deliver ELISA-level performance. Aushon's microarray printing, novel assay design, ...
Covidien, a provider of healthcare products, has introduced V-Loc knotless suture reload device. The V-Loc knotless device, designed to increase operating room efficiency during laparoscopic and single-incision procedures, works with the ...
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The need for IT staff in the nation's healthcare facilities is more critical now than two years ago,with two-thirds of healthcare operations in the U.S.reporting a shortage,according to a survey of CIOs(download PDF). The survey,conducted ...
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Maastricht University Medical Center finds that cardiac patients sleep longer when hospital rooms feature lighting that emulates the day-night cycle using LED and other sources. Philips has developed a hospital-room lighting system called ...
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