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Diagnostics & Healthcare News

Cleveland Clinic Announces Top 10 Medical Innovations for 2017 

The Cleveland Clinic announced its list of the top 10 medical innovations that have the potential to transform healthcare in 2017. The 11th annual list was announced Wednesday during the Cleveland Clinic 2016 Medical Innovation Summit, held this week at...

December 30, 2016

Diagnostics & Healthcare News

Legislation Streamlines FDA Approval Process for Medical Device Industry

 (TNS) — The federal Food and Drug Administration has required medical companies testing new products to get permission from multiple separate regional FDA review boards across the country wherever test subjects live. Legislation that President Barack Obama signed earlier this...

December 29, 2016

Diagnostics & Healthcare News

Under Trump, Congress Likely to Pull Plug on Medical Device Tax 

When Donald Trump takes over as president on Jan. 20, one of the first business tax breaks he delivers is likely to go to the U.S. medical device industry and companies like Mark Throdahl’s. The chief executive of OrthoPediatrics Corp,...

December 28, 2016

Surgery and Surgical Robotics

Sensor Technology Mimicking the Feeling of Skin and Hair

Researchers at the Harbin Institute of Technology have developed an extremely sensitive tactile sensor that mimics how our hair and skin work together to feel touch, the movement of air, and different textures of objects we come in contact with....

December 28, 2016

Imaging Visualization & Navigation

Mansfield-Based 3D Animator Creates Medical Training Videos 

From a workstation with three computer monitors arrayed in his basement, 3D animation artist Sean Maynard, shown with his dog Augie, has been producing animated medical videos – to help patients — and doctors — better visualize how a medical...

December 28, 2016

Cardiovascular / Cardiology

New Cardiac Tool Helps Repair Holes in Children’s Hearts 

It’s always important to check your work. A new cardiac imaging tool allows surgeons to repair serious residual holes in the heart that may occur when repairing a child’s heart defect. The transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) allows surgeons to identify intramural...

December 22, 2016

Biologics, Wound Care, Infection Prevention

FDA Bans Its Second Medical Device Ever

(NEWSER) – The Food and Drug Administration has banned only the second medical device ever, and it’s sort of an unlikely one: powdered medical gloves. Powder has for decades been added to (now a small minority) of latex medical gloves...

December 22, 2016

Imaging Visualization & Navigation

DICOM Standards Committee Addresses 3D Printing 

Administraion officials of the Digital Imaging and Communication in Medicine (DICOM) Standards Committee (DSC) announced that they will be launching Working Group 17 (WG-17) that will focus on the promotion of the DICOM standard for the creation, storage and management...

December 20, 2016

Diagnostics & Healthcare News

Dementia Will Be a Treatable Condition in 10 Years

A HOPEFUL DIRECTOR Professor Bart De Strooper, the Belgian neuroscientist recently appointed as director of the U.K.’s Dementia Research Institute (DRI), is optimistic that dementia will be a treatable condition by 2025. “We won’t be celebrating in 2025 that dementia is...

December 20, 2016