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Imaging Visualization & Navigation

Treating Pain with Virtual Reality: Interview with AppliedVR CEO Matthew Stoudt 

AppliedVR is an exciting company that is using virtual reality to treat pain and anxiety in both inpatient and outpatient settings. The VR applications are designed by a multidisciplinary team for maximum therapeutic effect. Applied VR runs on the Gear VR and...

September 20, 2016

Diagnostics & Healthcare News

New Rules Aimed To Make Clinical Trials Safer, More Effective

Universities and drug companies that use human volunteers for research face tough new rules designed to make sure that valuable information from these volunteers is widely available, not only to the volunteers themselves but to scientists trying to advance medical...

September 20, 2016

Imaging Visualization & Navigation

Computer program beats physicians at brain cancer diagnoses

Computer programs have defeated humans in Jeopardy!, chess and Go. Now a program developed at Case Western Reserve University has outperformed physicians on a more serious matter. The program was nearly twice as accurate as two neuroradiologists in determining whether...

September 20, 2016

Surgery and Surgical Robotics

World’s First: Robot Operates Inside Eye – see the video

University of Oxford surgeons at Oxford’s John Radcliffe Hospital have performed the world’s first operation inside the eye using a robot. Robert MacLaren, Professor of Ophthalmology. assisted by Dr Thomas Edwards, Nuffield Medical Fellow, used the remotely controlled robot to...

September 19, 2016

Biologics, Wound Care, Infection Prevention

FDA Clears Omega3-Rich Fish Skin for Surgical Applications

MCLEAN, VA–(Marketwired – Sep 13, 2016) – Kerecis, the company using Omega3-rich fish skin for tissue healing, has received clearance from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market the proprietary Kerecis technology as a surgical buttress in the United...

September 16, 2016

Imaging Visualization & Navigation

Kolo Medical Introduces Next Gen SiliconWave™ Ultrasound Transducers

SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 9, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Expanding its suite of next generation ultrasound transducers based on semiconductor technologies, Kolo Medical announced today that it will introduce three new SiliconWave™ transducers at the 2016 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS) in...

September 16, 2016

Resource Library

10 Things I Wish I’d Known Before Writing my FDA Response Letter

If you’ve ever received a 483 or warning letter, as I have, you know the chaos that can ensue. The clock is ticking; the FDA requires a response to most compliance notices within 15 business days! I received a warning...

September 16, 2016

Cardiovascular / Cardiology

Men Have Twice the Myocardial Infarction (MI) Risk Compared to Women 

Men had nearly twice the risk of Myocardial Infarction (MI) compared with women even after adjusting for coronary heart disease risk factors such as serum lipid levels, blood pressure, smoking, diabetes, body mass index and physical activity, according to a...

September 15, 2016

Diagnostics & Healthcare News

Insulet Enrolls First Patients in Clinical Trial for Omnipod® Artificial Pancreas System

BILLERICA, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Insulet Corporation (PODD) (Insulet or the Company), the leader in tubeless insulin pump technology with its Omnipod® Insulin Management System (Omnipod System), today announced the first patient has completed the feasibility study of the Omnipod Horizon™ Automated Glucose Control System (Omnipod Horizon...

September 15, 2016