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Light Therapy Device to Treat Carbon Monoxide Poisoning

Carbon monoxide (CO)—which is produced by cars and trucks, as well as fires and explosions—is a toxic, colorless, and odorless gas, and there are more than 50,000 admissions to US emergency rooms due to CO poisoning each year, with many...

October 15, 2019

Diagnostics & Healthcare News

MedTech of the Living Dead – How Scientists are Bringing Pig Brains Back to Life

Scientists at Yale University have developed a device that can restore circulation and cellular activity in a pig’s brain four hours after death, raising ethical questions about the possibilities of one day applying it to humans. BrainEx is an open-source device...

October 14, 2019

Surgery and Surgical Robotics

TSolution Announces FDA Approval for a Robot Capable of Performing a Total Knee Replacement

Think Surgical Inc. this week announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted clearance for it to market the TSolution One system for total knee replacement in the U.S. The robot already has CE Marking, and surgeons have...

October 14, 2019

Surgery and Surgical Robotics

Mobile YuMi Robot Demos Future of Healthcare Robotics

ABB today opened its first global healthcare research hub on the Texas Medical Center (TMC) campus, in Houston, Texas. ABB showcased a number of concept technologies, including a mobile YuMi robot that assists with laboratory and logistics tasks in hospitals....

October 10, 2019

Diagnostics & Healthcare News

Wrist Worn Step Trackers are as Accurate in Predicting Patient Health as Standardized Clinical Walking Tests

Determining how far patients with pulmonary disease can walk in six minutes has long been an effective clinical tool to help physicians determine their exercise capacity, as well as to aid in predicting health outcomes and mortality. Now, in a...

October 10, 2019

Imaging Visualization & Navigation

NIH Researchers Develop MRI with Lower Magnetic Field for Cardiac and Lung Imaging 

National Institutes of Health researchers, along with researchers at Siemens, have developed a high-performance, low magnetic-field MRI system that vastly improves image quality of the lungs and other internal structures of the human body. The new system is more compatible...

October 10, 2019

Cardiovascular / Cardiology

AngioDynamics Acquires Eximo Medical, Ltd. and its Innovative 355nm Laser Atherectomy Technology 

AngioDynamics, Inc., a leading provider of innovative, minimally invasive medical devices for vascular access, peripheral vascular disease, and oncology, today announced that it has acquired Eximo Medical, Ltd., an early commercial stage, medical device company, and its proprietary 355nm wavelength...

October 9, 2019

Diagnostics & Healthcare News

Abbott and Edwards Lifesciences May Have Mislabeled Hundreds of Patient Deaths

Abbott and Edwards Lifesciences may have mislabeled patient deaths as injuries or device malfunctions in hundreds of FDA adverse event reports involving their transcatheter aortic or mitral valve replacement devices, according to a new study. The study by JAMA Internal Medicine editor Dr. Rita Redberg,...

October 9, 2019

Cardiovascular / Cardiology

Medtronic Receives FDA Breakthrough Device Designation for Developing Stent Graft System to Treat Thoracoabdominal Aortic Aneurysm 

Medtronic today announced it has received Breakthrough Device designation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its Valiant® TAAA Stent Graft System for minimally invasive repair of thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm (TAAA). A TAAA is a complex condition causing...

October 9, 2019