Archive for February, 2009
Friday, February 27th, 2009
The system developed by Dr Paul Gnanayutham of University of Portsmouth, UK, uses patients’ brain waves and eye and muscular movements (together termed biopotentials) to move a cursor on a computer. The targets to which a person can point the cursor at on the prototype device include “yes,” “no,”’ “thank ...
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Friday, February 27th, 2009
Mutual interferences (magnetic and radio frequency fields) make linear accelerator (linac) and magnetic resonance (MR) systems “allergic” to each other, an obstacle previously thought to be insurmountable. Dr Gino Fallone, the Director of Medical Physics at the Cross Cancer Institute and Professor of Oncology at the University of Alberta, Canada, ...
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Friday, February 27th, 2009
Controversial scientific experimentation has been given a recent boost by President Obama, who as one of his first acts on taking office relaxed federal restrictions on embryonic stem cell research.
A conference being held on 4 March 2009 in Oxford, UK, designed to energise research in the UK will include a ...
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Thursday, February 26th, 2009
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Though several implantable artificial hearts have been developed over the past decades, they have generally been bulky and often unreliable. To develop a next-generation artificial heart, the National Institutes of Health is funding ...
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Wednesday, February 25th, 2009
To accommodate its growing production of insulin pen components, Medisize is expanding capacity at its plant in Kontiolahti, Finland. The full-service contract manufacturer for the medical device and diagnostics industry has been manufacturing the components for pharmaceutical company sanofi-aventis at the plant in Kontiolahti. Given the successful production of Medisize's insulin pen components ...
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Tuesday, February 24th, 2009
MEDTEC UK, the only UK trade show dedicated to medical device design and manufacturing, returns to the NEC, Birmingham, in March.
This two-day event on 25 and 26 March 2009 brings together the UK’s largest concentration of specialist providers of materials, components and technologies used in the manufacture of finished ...
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Monday, February 23rd, 2009
I wanted to pass along an interesting, albeit small, piece of research we did among our clients this week, writes Chris Schor, Director of Marketing at Emergo. We asked our 1000+ clients, all of whom are medical device and IVD companies, if they use their mobile phones to access information ...
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Sunday, February 22nd, 2009
You may have heard a lot of talk about e-health the last few days. That's not surprising given the three-day ministerial conference on this very topic that convened in Prague on 18 February, which also prompted some sidebar discussions. So, does this ramped-up rhetoric presage progress in the real world? Don't hold ...
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Friday, February 20th, 2009
Researchers from the Institute of Biomedical Technology at ETH Zurich and the University of Zurich have developed a new detection technique that could improve patient comfort during MRI scans. The scientists predict that the development will enable the diameter of MRI scanning tubes to be expanded approximately 15-20 centimeters. "[That] ...
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Thursday, February 19th, 2009
I know I’m starting to sound like a broken record, but there’s no denying the facts: the medical technology industry is weathering the economic downturn remarkably well thus far. Fresh evidence comes from the Medical Design & Manufacturing (MD&M) West 2009 Conference and Exposition, which was held 10–12 February in ...
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Thursday, February 19th, 2009
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Scientists at Syracuse University have made gains in understanding bacterial biofilm formation by researching bacterial growth on patterned gold surfaces. Assistant professors ...
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Thursday, February 19th, 2009
GUR ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMW-PE) from Ticona has been used for surgical orthopaedic implants since the 1960s. “Now, with the addition of a homogeneous content of 1000 parts per million of vitamin E (alpha-tocopherol) as a stabiliser amount, these new grades — GUR 1020-E and 1050-E — should allow ...
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