Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
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At the IEEE MEMS conference in Paris this week, Purdue researchers introduced an implantable sensor that can be powered by exposure to music, according to a Purdue press release.
Music within 200-500 Hz causes a cantilever in the device ...
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Wednesday, December 28th, 2011
A study by researchers from Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois, United States), Rush University Medical Center, (Chicago, Illinois, United States) and the University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany) found that a layer of graphitic carbon forms on metal-on-metal hip implants. The discovery could eventually improve the performance of these types of implants, since ...
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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 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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Tuesday, August 16th, 2011
A new biomaterial developed by researchers at Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland, United States) could be used to replace disfigured soft tissue in cheeks and lips, for example, according to a Technology Review article. The material is a blend of the biological material hyaluronic acid and the synthetic material polyethylene ...
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Tuesday, July 26th, 2011
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Researchers at the ...
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Wednesday, May 25th, 2011
The winners of the 2011 European Inventor Award were honored last week in a ceremony at the Academy of Sciences in Budapest. One recipient was Per-Ingvar Brånemark, who won the Lifetime Achievement award for his work in osseointegration, an implant technique based on titanium.
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Friday, May 13th, 2011
The importance of choosing the right material when developing medical devices will be the focus of a keynote address delivered by Dr Xiang Zhang during the virtual event “Developments in Materials for Medical Applications” on 24 May 2011. The event is organised by EMDT, MD+DI and Qmed. Zhang is Principal ...
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Thursday, March 31st, 2011
A European Commission—funded project, WiserBAN, is focused on developing miniature RF microsystems for wireless Body Area Networks (BAN). The project concerns the extreme miniaturisation and the reduction of power consumption of wearable and implantable BAN devices.
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Tuesday, July 6th, 2010
The vulnerability of medical devices to attacks by hackers is getting some renewed attention, thanks to a recently published article from the Boston Globe. The article cites the work of Kevin Fu, a computer science professor at University of Massachusetts Amherst whose work we referenced on medtechinsider last year. Although ...
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Thursday, October 15th, 2009
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From the Wire: Tiny implants that connect to nerve cells could improve control prosthetic limbs, according to an article recently published by Technology ...
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