Monday, February 6th, 2012
Hip replacement can provide great relief for patients with damaged hips, reducing pain and discomfort associated with everyday activities. Unfortunately, hip implants can also result in implant failure. The recent metal-on-metal hip recalls have demonstrated the risks of metal debris that is released due to joint wear, causing tissue damage ...
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Monday, January 16th, 2012
Last week, the Consumer Electronics Show took place in Las Vegas. At the show, Qualcomm introduced a US$10 million competition through its X Prize Foundation. The foundation offers this prize to anyone who develops a device similar to the Tricoder featured in Star Trek, a device used to diagnose medical ...
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Friday, January 6th, 2012
Dixons Surgical Instruments (Wickford, United Kingdom), has invested in a vertical machining centre from System 3R (Vällingby, Sweden) to keep up with the increased demand for an orthopaedic ring fixator system for the repair of limb bones.
The external Ilizarov stainless steel system is used to lengthen and reshape limb bones, ...
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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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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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Wednesday, September 21st, 2011
OrthoTec Europe is returning to Switzerland on 28 and 29 September 2011 after a successful launch last year. The event will be held at the Mövenpick Hotel Zürich-Regensdorf. Whether you attended OrthoTec Europe last year or are attending the show for the first time, a new page on the EMDT ...
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Monday, July 18th, 2011
The limitations of current technology and some potential solutions was one of the themes in last week's industry blog posts.
A post on MPMN's Medtech Pulse discussed a new memory device made of a liquid alloy of metals set into gels. While conventional electronics do not function well in wet environments, ...
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Tuesday, May 24th, 2011
From the wire: Granta Design has announced a new online information resource covering the properties of human bone - part of an expanded materials information solution for orthopaedic device manufacturers. Granta's tools, demonstrated at this week's OrthoTec 2011 Conference in Warsaw, Indiana, United States, are intended to make it easier ...
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Wednesday, May 18th, 2011
Researchers at Queen's University in Belfast have developed new types of cement materials for the repair of the spine after burst fractures, according to an article in the Engineer. The team developed a range of calcium phosphate cements that can be injected into fractures and that are reabsorbed when the ...
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Thursday, September 23rd, 2010
As much as 5% percent of the adult population is affected by musculoskeletal disorders, and that number can only grow given current demographic trends. So it should come as no surprise that orthopaedics is one of the fastest growing sectors within the medical technology industry, accounting for approximately €28 billion ...
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Friday, July 30th, 2010
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The current tendency in bone tissue engineering is developing materials that temporarily substitute for the bone while inducing its regeneration in such a way that this, temporary material, disappears ...
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Thursday, February 25th, 2010
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Researcher Nere Garmendia, based in the Basque city of Donostia-San Sebastián, has published a doctoral thesis that may pave the way for the development of implants with impressive lifespans. According to Garmendia, orthopaedic implants could be developed that would last more than 150 years by developing ...
Posted in From the Wire, Nanotechnology and Microtechnology | 1 Comment »
