Stryker will settle four New Jersey lawsuits related to its ABG II and Rejuvenate hip implants for an undisclosed sum. The company expects to pay significant sums of cash to resolve the lawsuits and the hundreds of other similar cases that ...
Boston Scientific has obtained CE Mark approval for its X4 line of quadripolar CRT-D systems, including the AUTOGEN X4, DYNAGEN X4, and INOGEN X4 cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillators (CRT-Ds), a suite of ACUITY X4 quadripolar LV ...
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Two Cedars-Sinai physician-researchers have been awarded grants totaling $4 million from the National Institutes of Health to study how the environment - both in the womb and in the hospital where the baby is born - can affect the newborn ...
St. Jude Medical, a medical device company, has obtained CE Mark approval in Europe for its 25mm Portico transcatheter aortic heart valve implantation system. The Portico valve system offers a minimally invasive treatment option for ...
US-based SynCardia Systems has announced the implantation of the 150th SynCardia temporary total artificial heart in 2013. The 150th SynCardia temporary total artificial heart has been implanted on 26 November 2013. In 2012, a total of ...
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Jean-Claude Mas, the founder of faulty breast implant maker Poly Implant Prothèse (PIP) has been sentenced to four years in jail after a French court found him guilty of fraud-the maximum sentence for that charge. Mas was also fined ...
The Micra device is billed as the world's smallest pacemaker Medtronic is moving forward with studies on its own leadless pacemaker, the horse pill-sized Micra Transcatheter Pacing System that is only one-tenth the size of a standard ...
Medtronic's latest iteration of its Activa neurostimulator is not just a therapy device, but a brain activity information recorder that could provide insights into such devastating neurological disorders as Parkinson's disease. The first ...
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Israel-based NLT Spine has announced the issuance of two new patents from the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) covering the company’s conduit straight design and implant beveled tip, used as part of the PROW FUSION (lumbar ...
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After a series of media reports, it is clear that wireless implanted medical devices can be hacked. Although the risk is now more hypothetical than actual, the vulnerabilities warrant attention. Implanted devices often rely on wireless ...
Lowering CT dose and improving workflow are not choices that clinicians should have to make, so Toshiba CT is putting customers first by providing the industry's best solutions to solve these challenges. To make complex exams easier, ...
Silicone materials are widely used in Medical applications since from 60 years. Quickly after their Commercial availability in 1946, methylchlorosilanes were described to treat glassware to prevent blood from clotting. An effort was made by ...
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The U.S. National Security Agency reportedly hacked into over 50,000 computer networks around the world as part of its global intelligence gathering efforts, and also taps into large fiber optic cables that transport Internet traffic ...
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BME, a US-based manufacturer of Nitinol metal implants for musculoskeletal fixation, has announced the issuance of a new US patent ‘method and apparatus for an orthopedic fixation system’ as part of its Speed and Speed Shift ...
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The RNS device receiced FDA approval via the PMA pathway. NeuroPace (Mountain View, CA) landed FDA PMA approval for its RNS Stimulator, a device that can detect and treat patients suffering from drug-resistant epilepsy. Seizures occur ...
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