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Cardiovascular / Cardiology

AtaCor Medical has novel new method to pace the heart under development

We at Legacy MedSearch are sharing some wonderful technology news from AtaCor Medical written by: Rick Sanghera, Co-Founder & CEO at AtaCor Medical, Inc.  Please be sure to click the link below to take you to the full article and a pretty...

May 31, 2017

Orthopedics and Spine

Hyalex Orthopaedics Raises $16 Million Series A Financing and Appoints CEO

BOSTON, May 31, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Hyalex Orthopaedics, a medical device company advancing new products that feature HYALEX™ technology, a synthetic polymer that mimics cartilage, today announced it has raised $16 million in Series A financing. The financing was led...

May 31, 2017

Surgery and Surgical Robotics

SELLING in the O.R. — 6 Rules For Knowing When to Speak Up… and When to Keep Your Mouth Shut

We wanted to share a great article from Hannibal Bray – Medical Device Sales Leader & Coach, New Technology Expert.  Make sure to click the link below to read the article in its entirety and share his article with your connections. 1. The...

May 25, 2017

Cardiovascular / Cardiology

26 Deaths Prompt Abbott Recall of Thoratec Heart Pumps 

Abbott (NYSE:ABT) is recalling nearly 29,000 controllers for the HeartMate II implantable heart pump made by its Thoratec subsidiary after 26 patients died trying to change out the controllers on their own. The March 29 recall of 28,882 controllers for...

May 24, 2017

Orthopedics and Spine

Early Promise for Neuro-Spinal Scaffold, a New Paralysis Treatment 

Four months ago, Roger, a 55-year-old construction worker from Mooresville, N.C., fell out of a deer stand and was left with a damaged spinal cord and no sensation from the middle of his chest down. Patients with his condition typically...

May 24, 2017

Diagnostics & Healthcare News

Medicine Is Going Digital. The FDA Is Racing to Catch Up

WHEN BAKUL PATEL started as a policy advisor in the US Food and Drug Administration in 2008, he could pretty much pinpoint when a product was going to land in front of the reviewers in his division. Back when medical devices...

May 24, 2017

Biologics, Wound Care, Infection Prevention

Chicago Startup Iterum Therapeutics Raises $65M to Combat Drug-resistant Superbugs

A small pharma company in Chicago just got big money to fight an even bigger problem: drug-resistant infections that spread in hospitals. Iterum Therapeutics has raised $65 million in an oversubscribed Series B round of funding. The money will go...

May 23, 2017

Cardiovascular / Cardiology

Interventional Cardiologists May Have Pre-Cataract Lesions

NEW ORLEANS, LA—Up to half of interventional cardiologists who are exposed to ionizing radiation in the cath lab may have early evidence of eye changes that could eventually become cataracts, according to data from a small study. “Studies in cosmonauts,...

May 23, 2017

Cardiovascular / Cardiology

Battery-Free Implantable Medical Devices

The supercapacitor invented by researchers from UCLA and the University of Connecticut could lead to pacemakers and other implantable medical devices that last a lifetime. Photo credit: Islam Mosa/University of Connecticut and Maher El-Kady/UCLA Researchers from UCLA and the University...

May 22, 2017