Medical Equipment News

Latest Medical Devices News From Medical News Today.

Total news: 25
Last news: August 31, 2007 08:00:00

RTX Healthcare announced a 510k market clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to use the RTX3370 Telehealth Monitor in the US. The Telehealth Monitor is a wireless device designed specifically to improve the provision of healthcare to elderly patients outside hospitals suffering from chronic diseases. [click link for full article] - [Read more]

A stretcher races through the entrance of a busy hospital. The car accident victim lies on top and grimaces in pain. While surface injuries look gruesome, the real medical danger is invisible - internal organ damage caused by being crushed against the steering wheel.This isnt a scene from Seattle Grace Hospital, the set of the popular television drama Greys Anatomy, but from its real-life model, Harborview Medical Center. [click link for full article] - [Read more]

A new generation of implanted heart-assisting pump does very well at helping severely ill heart-failure patients survive, and thrive, until they receive a heart transplant, a new study shows. And, in addition to helping 75 percent of patients stay alive for at least six months or until a donor heart became available, the device also helped patients original hearts regain function and allowed their other organs to heal by restoring blood flow. [click link for full article] - [Read more]

Angiotech Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: ANPI, TSX: ANP), a global specialty pharmaceutical and medical device company, announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given clearance to begin marketing the Hemo-Stream(TM) chronic dialysis catheter. The Hemo-Stream catheter, developed by Rex Medical, LP, is the first chronic hemodialysis catheter specifically designed for over-the-wire delivery. [click link for full article] - [Read more]

People who have suffered for years from degenerative discs in their neck now have an option that may relieve the pain in their neck and arm, allow quick recovery and enable them to lead active and productive lives. On July 17, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cleared the Prestige ST Cervical Disc System. Used extensively in Europe, FDA clearance of the Prestige disc from Medtronic follows a unanimous recommendation for approval from the FDA advisory board. [click link for full article] - [Read more]

St. Jude Medical, Inc. (NYSE:STJ) announced regulatory approval from the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW), in addition to reimbursement approval, for the Angio-Seal(TM) STS Plus Vascular Closure device. Angio-Seal STS Plus is designed to provide physicians with an improved method of sealing catheterization sites, allowing patients increased comfort and offering hospitals improved efficiencies. [click link for full article] - [Read more]

GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), announced that it has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for its new mobile mammography product that will improve access to breast cancer screening for millions of women around the world. The mobile Senographe® Essential is built on the companys Senographe Essential platform, the next-generation of GEs proven Senographe Full Field Digital Mammography systems. [click link for full article] - [Read more]

DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc., has announced a new option for restoring hip mobility in patients who require total hip replacement: the Pinnacle® Acetabular Cup System AltrXâ„¢ hip bearing. This system provides advanced technology for recreating the natural ball and socket joint of the hip to help increase joint stability, range of motion and longevity. [click link for full article] - [Read more]

A Michigan State University engineering design team has developed a medical diagnosis system that would allow people to be inexpensively screened for a variety of medical problems.With Tongtong Li, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, as the faculty facilitator, Joe Hines, Janelle Shane, Kevin Scheel, Thomas Casey and Kurtis Hessler teamed up with students from China and Italy in the project. [click link for full article] - [Read more]

Researchers from the University of Minnesota Medical School and Brain Sciences Center at the Minneapolis VA Medical Center have identified a noninvasive and painless way to diagnose complex brain diseases. And its as simple as staring at a point of light. The research offers promise for a less-stressful, painless, and objective diagnosis for brain diseases, as well as a way to measure the effectiveness of different treatments for these diseases. [click link for full article] - [Read more]

AGA Medical Corporation ("AGA") announced that it has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and European CE Mark approvals for the AMPLATZER Vascular Plug II ("vascular plug II"). The AMPLATZER Vascular Plug II expands the AGA family of occlusion devices designed to embolize, or close blood vessel and blood vessel malformations in the peripheral vasculature. [click link for full article] - [Read more]

A coalition of physicians representing a wide range of medical specialties has issued a call to action to improve the treatment of stroke. The group, which includes nationally recognized leaders in neurology, neuroradiology, neurosurgery, vascular surgery, and cardiology, was drawn together by the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) to address one of the most pressing medical needs in this country -- the rapid treatment of stroke using catheter-based techniques. [click link for full article] - [Read more]

Diabetics who need to switch from oral medications to insulin could reduce their annual healthcare costs up to $17,000 by using an insulin pen instead of a syringe to deliver their daily dose of medication.A new study found that using an insulin pen may result in fewer trips to the emergency department and to the doctors office, resulting in substantial savings to diabetics and their insurers. [click link for full article] - [Read more]

AdvanDx, Inc. announced that the Lee Memorial Health System has implemented AdvanDxs rapid, molecular-based PNA FISH tests that provide rapid identification of bloodstream pathogens in hours instead of days, enabling labs to quickly report critical information to physicians and pharmacists to ensure optimal therapy and help reduce death rates for patients afflicted with bloodstream infections. Every year, 350,000 patients acquire bloodstream infections in the U.S. [click link for full article] - [Read more]

Most people think of hydrogen peroxide as a topical germ killer, but the medicine cabinet staple is gaining steam in the medical community as an early indicator of disease in the body.Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University researchers are the first to create a nanoparticle capable of detecting and imaging trace amounts of hydrogen peroxide in animals. [click link for full article] - [Read more]

The MHRA has ascertained, following detailed discussions with DEFRA (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs), that the impact of the restrictions imposed to deal with the foot and mouth outbreak will have a minimal impact on the supply of medical devices containing animal material from cows, sheep, pigs, goats and other biungulates. 1. Devices containing animal material from other animal types are not affected. 2. [click link for full article] - [Read more]

A breakthrough new procedure may improve quality of life for children and adults with a common type of congenital heart defect that interferes with the bodys ability to oxygenate blood through the lungs. [click link for full article] - [Read more]

The K.J. Zulch Prize, Germanys highest honor for basic neurological research, will be awarded to Brown University brain scientist John P. Donoghue at an Aug. 31, 2007 ceremony in Cologne, Germany.The Zülch Prize recognizes outstanding achievements in basic neurological research. Donoghue was recognized for his research on how the brain translates thought into action. [click link for full article] - [Read more]

A systematic review finds that implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) are safe and significantly reduce death for adults with left ventricular systolic dysfunction (Review, p. 251). In this review of eight randomized controlled trials that reported on mortality and 76 observational studies that examined safety or effectiveness, ICDs reduced death from all causes in patients with left ventricular systolic dysfunction by 20 percent. [click link for full article] - [Read more]

Your annual physical examination of the future may include a blood barcode scan, which instantly provides the doctor with information to diagnose a wide-range of diseases. New generations of novel polymers will be available to replace damaged blood vessels. And in a security-minded world outside, tiny but ultra-sensitive sensors will monitor the environment for bioterrorism agents. [click link for full article] - [Read more]