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Diagnostics & Healthcare News

$35M Grant Provides Texas A&M to Develop Cutting Edge Tech for Underserved Populations

Backed by a $35 million federal grant, Texas A&M University System is leading a group of academic partners, private companies and federal agencies in a quest to develop cutting-edge, affordable technologies for underserved populations suffering from diabetes and heart disease....

September 13, 2017

Imaging Visualization & Navigation

Robotics and Virtual Reality Will Dominate These 3 Medical Niches First

We’re no stranger to robotics in the medical field. Robot-assisted surgery is becoming more and more common. Many training programs are starting to include robotic and virtual reality scenarios to provide hands-on training for students without putting patients at risk....

September 13, 2017

Surgery and Surgical Robotics

Medical First: Robot Operates Inside Human Eye

In a medical first, surgeons have used a robot to operate inside the human eye, greatly improving the accuracy of a delicate surgery to remove fine membrane growth on the retina. Such growth distorts vision and, if left unchecked, can lead to...

September 12, 2017

Diagnostics & Healthcare News

Australian Government Invests AU$13 Million into MedTech

The Australian government has announced that it is investing AU$13.3 million into medical technologies to help people living with severe mobility issues and chronic back pain. The AU$500 million Biomedical Translation Fund (BTF) will invest AU$5 million into Rex Bionics...

September 12, 2017

Cardiovascular / Cardiology

Warning from FDA: St. Jude Pacemaker Vulnerable to Hackers

When Vice President Dick Cheney asked his cardiologist to replace his WiFi-connected pacemaker with one without internet capability in 2007, assassination through medical device hacking seemed far-fetched. But this week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced that almost half a million pacemakers made by Abbott are vulnerable...

September 7, 2017

Diagnostics & Healthcare News

Hiring a Healthcare Cybersecurity Pro? What You Need to Look For

Healthcare has special challenges securing information and devices. The consequences of a successful hack can be, at their worst, extreme results on people’s health and well-being. Medical records are worth more on the black market than identity data, and thus...

September 5, 2017

Diagnostics & Healthcare News

A Medical Device Accelerator is Moving into City Garage

A medical device manufacturing center with room for early-stage companies is slated to move into City Garage this fall. The 10,000 sq. ft. space within the Port Covington innovation hub will house manufacturing operations for Indianapolis-based Engineered Medical Systems, as well as an...

August 31, 2017

Surgery and Surgical Robotics

Medrobotics Announces World’s First Robotic-Assisted Scarfree™ Colorectal Surgery 

RAYNHAM, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Medrobotics Corp., a medical robotics company, announced today that Dr. Vincent Obias, Director of Robotics and Professor of Colorectal Surgery at the George Washington University Hospital, successfully completed the world’s first colorectal surgery with the Flex Robotic System....

August 31, 2017

Surgery and Surgical Robotics

Harvard Researchers Create Soft Robotic Arm to Make Endoscopies Easier

Harvard researchers have created a rigid-soft robotic arm for endoscopes that can sense, flex and has multiple degrees of freedom. Flexible endoscopes fit through narrow passages to reach difficult parts of the body. Once they reach their target, the devices...

August 25, 2017