Wednesday, January 18th, 2012
A study recently published in the peer-reviewed journal PloS ONE shows that a weak, electrical noise signal may help people with Parkinson's disease. The study was conducted by researchers at the Sahlgrenska Academy of University of Gothenburg, Sweden. In experiments on rats, stimulating the balance organs with electrical noise improved ...
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Wednesday, January 11th, 2012
A new app for burn patients has recently been registered with UK MHRA as a medical device. Mersey Burns is the first app to be registered with the agency as a Class I medical device, according to a blog post on the website of d4, a UK nonprofit organisation.
The app calculates ...
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Monday, November 14th, 2011
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Cambridge Consultants has announced a collaboration with start-up company EBR Systems on what is said to be the world’s first wireless pacing system. The Wireless Cardiac Stimulation system (WiCS) uses a leadless electrode to convert mechanical energy, wirelessly transmitted from an ultrasonic pulse ...
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Wednesday, November 9th, 2011
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A new technology for the monitoring of brain aneurysms developed at University of British Columbia could allow patients to monitor aneurysms at home with an handheld RF reader, according to a university press release. ...
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Monday, October 3rd, 2011
Last week, the AdvaMed 2011 conference took place in Washington, DC. The event attracted over 2000 executives from the medical device sector, according to a blog post on DeviceTalk. MD+DI Editor in Chief Heather Thompson and several guest bloggers covered the conference in detail. The post links to all of ...
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Monday, September 26th, 2011
Wearable electronics is the new trend in medical design, as an earlier medtechinsider post on electronic tattoos demonstrated. Soon heart monitors might be as thin and flexible as the Band-Aid, reported MED in a blog post last week.
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Monday, September 19th, 2011
Last week, a blog post on DeviceTalk discussed several recent studies of cardiovascular implantable electronic devices, including one that found that infections are a common result, and can result in high costs and patient mortality.
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Thursday, September 8th, 2011
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Colder Products Co. has introduced a new connector that integrates air lines and electronics into a compact, single connection point for remote tools on medical devices and equipment. The Mini Hybrid Connector is designed to prevent misconnections and enhance ...
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Monday, August 29th, 2011
Medical engineers at Technische Universität München (TUM) have developed a sensor chip that can be implanted and used to monitor tumours, according to a university press release. The electronic chip measures the concentration of dissolved oxygen in the tissue surrounding the tumour. A reduction in oxygen content in the tissue ...
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Monday, August 22nd, 2011
Last week several blog posts and articles suggested refreshing solutions to current issues facing the medtech industry. Less than a week after a diabetic computer security expert hacked his own insulin pump during a presentation at the Black Hat computer security conference, MED published a timely article on how to ...
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Monday, August 15th, 2011
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Researchers at the Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois, USA) and the University of Illinois (Champaign, Illinois, USA) have developed electronic tattoos that can be used for sensing, diagnostics, treatment and communications. The ultrathin, stretchable electronics are mounted on a thin sheet of plastic and ...
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Tuesday, July 26th, 2011
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Researchers at the ...
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