From a zipper-like wound closure device that can be peeled off at home to a telemedicine robot, there are plenty of ingenious devices included as finalists in this year's Medical Design Excellence Awards. It is worth noting, however, that ...
Tags: Reshaping Medtech, Health, Medicine
A study of 25 high-risk medical devices approved for use on children showed that 84 percent of those devices approved by FDA since 2008 had not been tested on any child under 18 years of age before the approval was granted. Eleven had not ...
Debate about infant formula marketing monitoring continues Paediatricians from Australasia’s largest specialist college, The Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) have urged the Federal Parliament to legislate to ...
Tags: Infant Formula, Government Moves
The first room-temperature light detector that can sense the full infrared spectrum has the potential to put heat vision technology into a contact lens. Unlike comparable mid- and far-infrared detectors currently on the market, the ...
Tags: contact lens, light detector, Electronics
A meta-analysis involving 80,000 patients found statins -- cholesterol-lowering drugs -- have few symptomatic side effects, researchers in Britain said. Dr. Judith Finegold of the National Heart and Lung Institute in London said an ...
eInfochips The Andromeda video processing system is an app-ready development platform for medical imaging systems including endoscopy, angiography, mammography, arthroscopy and ultrasound. For telemedicine engineers, Andromeda also is a ...
Doctors in the United States are writing more prescriptions for sedatives than ever before, and the frequent use of these powerful drugs in combination with narcotic painkillers may be causing medication-related deaths, a new study ...
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Antibiotics prescribed in doctors' offices are linked with many cases of serious bacterial infections that can cause severe diarrhea in children, according to a new study. Researchers found that 71 percent of cases of Clostridium ...
Tags: Antibiotics, bacterial infections, the health of our nation's children
Healthcare service providers rely on sophisticated equipments such as X-ray machines, MRI, lithotripters, image intensifiers, scanners and fetal Doppler machines for accurate diagnosis and precise treatments. Diagnostic departments rely ...
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The head of BlackBerry’s enterprise services business is plotting an aggressive launch of a new version of the company’s core enterprise server later this year as BlackBerry seeks to regain some of the ground it’s lost ...
Qiagen has announced the commercial launch in India of its careHPV test, the only molecular diagnostic for high-risk human papillomavirus (HPV) designed to screen women in settings with limited healthcare infrastructure, such as areas ...
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THURSDAY Feb. 13, 2014, 2014 -- The increased risk of having a stroke or other blood-clotting problem might continue longer after a woman gives birth than previously believed, according to a new study. "Historically, six weeks was the ...
Tags: Stroke Risk, the risk of blood clots, venous thromboembolisms
With the latest expansion of its global telemedicine efforts, UPMC is now offering physicians in India access to its world-renowned medical expertise to improve care for patients. Through advanced, web-based technology, UPMC physicians ...
Tags: UPMC, TeleChikitsa Venture, telemedicine application, consultations
Elsewhere, Kansas lawmakers advance a bill that would exempt the state from the health law and some California lawmakers work to restore Medi-Cal cuts. The Oregonian: SEIU Withdraws Health Care Ballot Measures, Part Of Deal With ...
Tags: SEIU, Health Law, Health Insure, Medi-Cal Funding
Sydney-based brewery, Malt Shovel Brewery, which is home to the James Squire range of beers, has launched its latest creation under the Mad Brewer’s label with the release of ‘Garden de Paradisi’, available as a limited ...
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