Dune Medical Devices' MarginProbe system, designed for the detection of breast cancer, has obtained premarket approval (PMA) from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The system is an intra-operative tissue assessment tool which ...
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DJO, a wholly-owned subsidiary of DJO Finance (DJOFL), has acquired Exos, a US-based medical device company, for an undisclosed sum. Exos' commercial products include a thermoformable bracing system, which is comprised of a waterproof, ...
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Pharmaceutical services company Parexel International has acquired all the outstanding equity securities of Liquent, a provider of Regulatory Information Management (RIM) solutions. Established in 1994,Liquent provides software solutions ...
Medical device company Pioneer Surgical Technology has established Pioneer Surgical Technology Deutschland, a branch office in Konstanz, Germany. The company plans to expand operations in Germany through a commercial center. Global ...
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Medical devices often use commercial PCs and have wireless connections that make them vulnerable to malware, or require software updates for security, but the U.S. may not be doing an adequate job tracking these risks, researchers ...
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Pacemakers from several manufacturers can be commanded to deliver a deadly, 830-volt shock from someone on a laptop up to 50 feet away, the result of poor software programming by medical device companies. The new research comes from ...
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Medical technology company Cyberonics has implanted 100,000th patient using its Vagus Nerve Stimulation (VNS) therapy system. Using implanted medical device, the CE-marked VNS therapy system delivers pulsed electrical signals to the vagus ...
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Even as IT pros wrestle with the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend, corporate security is being further complicated by another emerging trend: bring your own network (BYON). BYON is a by-product of increasingly common technology that ...
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Global medical device company St Jude Medical has enrolled the first patient in its ILUMIEN I observational clinical study. The objective of the study is to determine that an intravascular imaging technology, Optical Coherence Tomography ...
Corvalent has obtained ISO 13485 certification for its quality management system for the design and manufacture of medical devices. The company provides a high quality design and manufacturing process that meets medical OEM community ...
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IT managers in businesses and governments are taking steps to ensure that the Summer Olympics do not bust networks or budgets. The opportunity for problems is there. The Olympics will be live streamed, and London's time difference means ...
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The study examines the medical device coating and surface modification treatment industry, a global enterprise that BCC Research anticipates will reach nearly $8 billion by 2017. It describes the eight coating and surface treatment ...
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Fishbowl Solutions has announced the release of the"Fishbowl ECM"iPad application on the Apple App Store."Fishbowl ECM"is a free version of Fishbowl's Mobile Tablet application for Oracle WebCenter Content and allows customers to try out ...
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There are a many reasons an application might call for titanium due to its exceptional strength-to-weight ratio. In its unalloyed form titanium is a strong as some steels yet 45% lighter. However the welding of titanium demands a more ...
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New York City is using a new data aggregation and real-time analytics tool to combat crime and terror threats in the city. The new Domain Awareness System (DAS), developed jointly by the New York Police Department and Microsoft, gives ...
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