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 ...
Nearly 1-in-100 anesthesiology residents entering primary training from 1975 to 2009 developed substance use disorder during training, U.S. researchers say. Dr. David Warner of Mayo Clinic's Department of Anesthesiology and the American ...
The 20 states that did not expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act help pay for the expanded Medicaid program in other states, a U.S. non-profit says. A Commonwealth Fund Study found Texas, Florida, Georgia,and Virginia were the ...
Baxter International has filed an amended biologics license application (BLA) to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to re-start the review process for approval of HyQvia facilitated subcutaneous infusion to treat adult patients with ...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted orphan drug status for Teva Pharmaceutical's Treanda injection through October 2015 for indolent B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma (iNHL) that has progressed during or within six months of ...
BioDelivery Sciences International (BSDI) announced that it engaged in a positive meeting with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regarding the clinical development program for Clonidine topical gel that will allow the program to ...
CDRD Ventures, the commercialization vehicle of The Centre for Drug Research and Development (CDRD), has announced the launch of a new spin-off company, Sitka Biopharma is a biotechnology company developing a new bladder cancer treatment. ...
It may be years, if ever, before drones are delivering Amazon.com products to people’s doorsteps. But they’ve already been successfully field-tested when it comes to delivering crucially needed medical supplies. Andreas ...
A new water-resistant material could provide another tool for medical device designers. Boston University and MIT researchers in the journal Nature describe a material with a novel surface structure that provides very high level of very ...
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For patients with diabetes, it is better to eat a single large meal than several smaller meals throughout the day, according to a new study from Linkoping University in Sweden. The study, which was published on 27 November 2013 in the ...
When it comes to best places to work in the medical device industry, Stryker and Johnson & Johnson score well in online rankings. But are there even better medical device workplaces lurking out there? Stryker was the top pure-play medtech ...
American Medical Systems, a subsidiary of Endo Health Solutions, has obtained CE Mark approval for its RetroArc retropubic sling system, designed to treat female stress urinary incontinence (SUI). In collaboration with leading physicians, ...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted orphan drug designation to Conatus Pharmaceuticals' drug candidate emricasan for the treatment of liver transplant patients with reestablished fibrosis to delay the progression to ...
Eisai has filed an application for the proton pump inhibitor Pariet in Japan looking for a further indication expansion for use in the prevention of recurrent gastric or duodenal ulcer caused by low-dose aspirin therapy as well as the ...
Fujifilm Medical Systems U.S.A., a provider diagnostic imaging products and medical informatics solutions, has obtained 510(k) approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its Gadolinium and Cesium digital X-ray detectors for ...