Friday, May 18th, 2012
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A new type of prosthetic retina could restore vision to patients with age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the most common cause of blindness in the developed world, according to a press release from University of Strathclyde. The device is wireless and ...
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Thursday, May 17th, 2012
The Swedish medical device company Promimic has announced that a new study demonstrates that its nanothin implant coating HAnano Surface enables the implant material PEEK to integrate with bone. PEEK is a popular implant material, but implants made of PEEK typically require a coating to facilitate bone integration.
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Thursday, May 10th, 2012
An article about metal-on-metal (MoM) hip implants that was published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) in February continues to stir controversy. The article has resulted in a heated debate between BMJ and DePuy. DePuy claims that the article was "unnecessarily alarmist" and included several incorrect facts, while omitting other ...
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Monday, May 7th, 2012
A European Commission-funded project titled ENDURE focuses on developing a new type of hip implant that is metal-free and provides bone-like elasticity.
An international team of ten partners, which include companies, research organisations and universities, collaborated to develop a hip implant that demonstrated good wear resistance in initial tests. During the ...
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Tuesday, February 28th, 2012
New advice from MHRA and a BBC Newsnight/British Medical Journal investigation are causing more concern about the risk of metal-on-metal hip implants. Several major recalls of these types of implants have demonstrated the risk of metal debris that can cause complications such as inflammation. Now MHRA has issued guidance to ...
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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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