Medical Devices

Welcome to the 'Medical Devices' tag page at Technorati. This page features content from the farthest reaches of the Blogosphere that authors have "tagged" with 'Medical Devices'.

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Medical Devices”

• FDA Warns of Problems With External Biphasic Defibrillators

  
  Attorney At Law — Authority: 514
  The Food and Drug Administration is warning medical professionals about external biphasic defibrillators which may deliver weaker electrical shocks than are needed to restart the heart in a medical emergency.Since 2006, the FDA has received 14 reports of situations where a 200 Joules biphasic defibrillator was ...
  1 hour ago

• Clearwire Closes $1.5B, Alder Scores $1B Partnership, Software Financings Are Down, & More Seattle-Area Deals News

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 708
  Roundup , deals , VC Gregory T. Huang wrote: Healthcare deals are going one way, tech deals another. That’s my read from the past week in the Northwest, where we’ve seen some of the biggest biotech deals around, even as a prominent Seattle tech venture firm (and software financings in general) head ...
  2 hours ago

• St. Jude Medical Quits AdvaMed

  
  Real Time Investigations with Bill Allison and Anupama Narayanswamy — Authority: 637
  In a dispute on strategy over proposed medical device taxes in current health care legislation, St. Jude Medical Inc. has quit AdvaMed , the major medical device trade association in Washington. The group played a key role in lobbying Congress to keep certain clinical trial data secret, as detailed in Sunlight’s ...
  2 hours ago

• Edwards Lifesciences Recalls Aortic Catheters

  
  NewsInferno — Authority: 532
  Edwards Lifesciences Corporation has issued a recall of CardioVations EndoClamp Aortic Catheter. The Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has deemed this a Class I recall, its most serious type of recall. The CardioVations EndoClamp Aortic Catheter locks off the aorta, monitors aortic pressure, and delivers solution ...
  4 hours ago

• Hinge Is Cited in Big Recall of Strollers

  
  Personal Injury and Social Security Disability Blog — Authority: 425
  Many news outlets reported today on the recall of baby strollers. One short but comprehensive report was in the New York Times . Here are excerpts from that article. Ababy stroller company voluntarily recalled about one million strollersMonday after reports that children had had their fingertips severed ina hinge, ...
  8 hours ago

• Hamilton Thorne Raises $2.2M

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 708
  deals , Healthcare IT , Life Sciences Wade Roush wrote: Beverly, MA-based Hamilton Thorne , which makes laser equipment used in stem-cell research labs and fertility clinics, has raised $2.2 million in a private stock placement and debt conversion deal, according to an announcement released last week. A ...
  9 hours ago

• Sterilizing Devices With Plasma-In-A-Bag

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 739
  The practice of sterilizing medical tools and devices helped revolutionize health care in the 19th century because it dramatically reduced infections associated with surgery. Through the years, numerous ways of sterilization techniques have been developed, but the old mainstay remains a 130-year-old device called an ...
  10 hours ago

• Enhancing Drug Delivery In Gut Using Nano Bubble Gum

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 739
  Of the many characteristic traits a drug can have, one of the most desirable is the ability for a drug to be swallowed and absorbed into the bloodstream through the gut. Some drugs, like over-the-counter aspirin, lend themselves to this mode of delivery and are trivial to take. They can be pressed into a pill and ...
  10 hours ago

• Docinthemachine MedTech Podcast!

  
  Docinthemachine.com — Authority: 462
  Here’s the latest installment of the docinthemachine podcast.  In this installment I review new FDA device approvals and then present an interview about HD technology for entertainment and medicine with Bob Ott (vice president of broadcast and professional audio/video products for Sony Electronics) recorded at the ...
  19 hours ago

• Sparton Corporation: First Quarter Financial Results Conference Call

  
  Your Story — Authority: 158
  SCHAUMBURG, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Sparton Corporation (NYSE: SPA) today announced it will host a conference call with investors and analysts on Thursday, November 19, 2009, at 11
  1 day ago

• Public health breakthrough in Virginia: state’s first ultra-low-dose x-ray imager, ‘EOS’, which reduces radiation by up to 90% compared to conventional x-rays, is installed at Spinal Surgery Associates

  
  Your Story — Authority: 158
  CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Biospace med, an emerging medical technology company based in Cambridge, Mass., and Paris, announced today that Charlottesville, Va.-based S
  1 day ago

• Heartbeat Digital to Speak at FDA Hearing

  
  Your Story — Authority: 158
  NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Heartbeat Digital CEO Bill Drummy has been selected to speak at the upcoming Public Hearing on Promotion of FDA-Regulated Medical Products Using the Int
  1 day ago

• QuantRx Debuts Flagship Diagnostic Reader Device (Q-Reader™) At MEDICA 2009, The Worlds Leading Medical Trade Fair

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 739
  QuantRx® Biomedical Corporation (OTCBB: QTXB), a broad-based diagnostic company focused on the development and commercialization of innovative diagnostic products, today announced that the Company will demonstrate its latest technology at MEDICA 2009, the worlds leading medical trade fair, to be held November 18-21, ...
  1 day ago

• FDA Lags On 510(k) Medical Device Approvals

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 739
  According to MassDevice.com, the online business journal of the medical device industry, medical device approval times under the Food & Drug Administrations 510(k) clearance process jumped 30 percent between 2005 and 2008.
  1 day ago

• Argument Day in Bilski at US Supreme Court

  
  IPWatchdog.com | Patents & Patent Law — Authority: 579
  Later today the United States Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the Bilski matter. It is not an overstatement to say that the fate of much future innovation rests squarely on the Supreme Court getting this one right, so lets hope for the best and pray that they do get this one right. [...]Related posts: US ...
  1 day ago

• Jülich Neutron Scientists Inaugurate Unique Device In The US

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 739
  A unique large-scale research device from Jülich has gone into operation in the USA. At the strongest neutron source in the world, the spallation source SNS in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, Forschungszentrum Jülich inaugurated a so-called neutron spin echo (NSE) spectrometer. The NSE spectrometer enables detailed ...
  3 days ago

• The Smart Hand – One That Can Feel

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 515
  This is a prototype, but the fact that nerve endings can be connected to a device is amazing to connect with signals from the brain.  BD    London, England (CNN) -- Researchers are working on a breakthrough in artificial limb technology -- a prosthetic hand that can actually feel. The SmartHand ...
  3 days ago

• Boston Scientific Sets $296 Million Settlement on Devices

  
  WSJ.com: Health Blog — Authority: 678
  The companys Guidant unit will plead guilty to two misdemeanor charges related to improper reporting to the FDA
  4 days ago

• SpectraScience Raises $4.3M

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 708
  funding , cancer , medical devices Bruce V. Bigelow wrote: SpectraScience, the San Diego medical device maker, has raised more than $4.3 million through a private placement that combines preferred shares and warrants, according to a regulatory filing today. As I reported previously, SpectraScience ...
  4 days ago

• TAUs Smart I.V. Device To Save Lives At Disaster Sites

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 739
  When paramedics rush to the scene of a multi-car pileup or a terror attack, their first task is to assess who needs immediate care. But blood hemorrhaging can obscure damage, and the gruesome mess means paramedics cant always determine who should be treated first.
  4 days ago

Comments about Medical Devices