Healthcare products company Covidien has purchased California-based CV Ingenuity, which is focused on improving patient outcomes in the treatment of vascular diseases. CV Ingenuity's core technology Drug Coated Balloon (DCB), which ...
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Software is the driving force behind the “Internet of everything” says Tyson Tuttle, president and CEO, Silicon Laboratories. The dramatic growth of the Internet over the last 30 years has surpassed the estimates of even ...
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Connecticut Spring & Stamping (CSS) is on schedule to receive ISO 13485 certification for its quality management for design and manufacturing of medical devices. CSS' commercial products include springs, metal stampings, machined ...
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Johnson Electric has expanded its product portfolio of haptic actuator,designed for touch screen displays and surfaces. HA300 haptic actuator,which is launched under the Ledex-HA brand,has a rated life of greater than 60 million cycles ...
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted 510(k) approval to Alphatec Holdings' new products, Pegasus and ILLICO FS Facet Fixation systems. Pegasus, an anchored anterior cervical interbody device, offers single-step deployment ...
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Abbott has obtained regulatory approval for its XIENCE Xpedition Everolimus Eluting Coronary Stent system,designed for improving coronary artery luminal diameter in patients with symptomatic heart disease due to de novo native coronary ...
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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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Bio-AMD's majority owned medical devices subsidiary, Bio AMD Limited has submitted a patent application for an Immunoassay Result Reading Apparatus (IRRA) at UK Intellectual Property Office. The IRRA technology can be applied to any ...
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Network World - As of June 2012, there were 237,000 iPad apps listed in the App store, many of them priced at 99 cents or even free. Yet very few of them let companies actually do business -- take customer orders, update inventory, submit ...
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Global healthcare products provider Covidien has singed an agreement to acquire CV Ingenuity for undisclosed sum. The transaction is also expected to increase Covidien's research and development expenditures to fund the clinical ...
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Bob Wolf, Alliance LLC vice president, doesn't believe everything he reads. Manufacturers claim they can swap out rare earth elements for cheaper, more accessible materials, while some miners insist they can fill every gap in the rare earth ...
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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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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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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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Research and advisory firm, Gartner, has released its list of technology predictions and trends for the years 2013 and beyond. According to Gartner, its top predictions focus on economic risks, opportunities and innovations that will ...
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