China's market regulators are investigating foreign medical-equipment makers over suspicion that they may have paid bribes or used illegal strategies to achieve market dominance, according to some people familiar with the matter. ...
Aesculap, a B Braun company, has launched an adjustable, gravitational shunt valve, Miethke proSA, to provide surgeons with a new treatment option for patients with hydrocephalus. The valve provides resistance to cerebral spinal fluid ...
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Medtronic has launched new MR-Conditional pacing system for use with MRI scanners in the US, following the approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The Advisa DR MRI SureScan pacing system, which includes an Advisa MRI ...
Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Royal Philips Electronics, commonly known as Philips) (Euronext: PHIA, NYSE: PHG) is a Dutch multinational electronics company headquartered in Amsterdam. It was founded in Eindhoven in 1891 by Gerard ...
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UK-based MR Solutions has announced two major breakthroughs that could bring bench-top 3 Tesla MRI scanners into more pre-clinical research laboratories. The scanners have been developed using super-conducting magnets which eliminate the ...
Sweden-based medical imaging IT company Sectra has inked a partnership agreement with Malaysian firm CT Frank Technology to distribute its Sectra visualization table in the Southeast Asian market. As part of the agreement, CT Frank ...
IDG News Service - An American and a Frenchman have won the 2012 Nobel Prize for Physics for their work on quantum optics, which could one day lead to faster computer processors, better telecommunications or more accurate timepieces. ...
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ImageIQ, an imaging contract research organization, has entered into a collaboration agreement to provide imaging analytics for Histogenics' Phase 3 IND clinical trial of NeoCart implant. Histogenics said NeoCart is an autologous ...
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