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| Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:00:00 PDT The Very First All Spanish "Surgery Robot" Is Now Operating In Malaga The routine use of this first commercial robot assistant culminates the process of investigation, development, technology transfer and the marketing of this robot. Four years ago the Spanish company SENER became interested in the ongoing research by the Medical Robotics Group of the University of Malaga. They were developing a robot-assistant prototype designed especially for minimally invasive surgery. Click here to read this news article. |
| Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:00:00 PDT Particles Held For On-Chip Analysis By Integrated Optical Trap A new type of optical particle trap can be used to manipulate bacteria, viruses and other particles on a chip as part of an integrated optofluidic platform. The optical trap is the latest innovation from researchers at the Jack Baskin School of Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who are developing new sensor technology for biomedical analysis and other applications. Click here to read this news article. |
| Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:00:00 PDT Cook Medical Introduces The Guardia? Pro Protective Embryo Transfer Catheter The Guardia Pro Protective Embryo Transfer Catheteris uniquely engineered to protect and guide embryos through cervical mucus and blood and to eliminate the need for cervical flushing or aspiration prior to transfer. The Guardia Pro's outer sheath protects the embryo through entry and then opens in petals to further advance the inner transfer catheter allowing placement of the embryo in the uterine cavity. Click here to read this news article. |
| Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:00 PDT Acidic Drinks Worse For Teeth Than Whitening With the increasing popularity of whitening one's teeth, researchers at the Eastman Institute for Oral Health, part of the University of Rochester Medical Center, set out to learn if there are negative effects on the tooth from using whitening products. Click here to read this news article. |
| Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:00 PDT Mechanics Of Bacteria Colonies Measured By New Lab-On-A-Chip Researchers at the University of Michigan have devised a microscale tool to help them understand the mechanical behavior of biofilms, slimy colonies of bacteria involved in most human infectious diseases. Most bacteria in nature take the form of biofilms. Bacteria are single-celled organisms, but they rarely live alone, said John Younger, associate chair for research in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the U-M Health System. Click here to read this news article. |
| Wed, 01 Jul 2009 07:00:00 PDT Innovative Technology Shatters The Barriers Of Modern Light Microscopy Researchers at the Helmholtz Zentrum München and the Technische Universität München are using a combination of light and ultrasound to visualize fluorescent proteins that are seated several centimeters deep into living tissue. In the past, even modern technologies have failed to produce high-resolution fluorescence images from this depth because of the strong scattering of light. Click here to read this news article. |
| Wed, 01 Jul 2009 06:00:00 PDT Bio-Inspired Cilia Mix Medical Reagents At Small Scales The equipment used for biomedical research is shrinking, but the physical properties of the fluids under investigation are not changing. This creates a problem: the reservoirs that hold the liquid are now so small that forces between molecules on the liquid's surface dominate, and one can no longer shake the container to mix two fluids. Instead, researchers must bide their time and wait for diffusion to occur. Click here to read this news article. |
| Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:00:00 PDT Better Diagnosis Of Diarrhea-Causing Bacteria: New Method Developed By Researchers From Helmholtz Center For Infection Research, Germany It is based on detecting short, repetitive DNA segments in the genome of bacteria. Every single bacterial strain has such characteristic repeats. "With this method we are able to identify bacterial strains as well as clarify their genetic relationships. Furthermore, we can show how new pathogenic variants develop," says Manfred Höfle, researcher at the HZI. The results have now been published in the current issue of the scientific journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology. Click here to read this news article. |
| Wed, 01 Jul 2009 03:00:00 PDT Cook Medical Introduces The Guardia? Pro Protective Embryo Transfer Catheter The Guardia Pro Protective Embryo Transfer Catheter is uniquely engineered to protect and guide embryos through cervical mucus and blood and to eliminate the need for cervical flushing or aspiration prior to transfer. Click here to read this news article. |
| Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:00:00 PDT Roche Diabetes Care Announces Unique Coaching Program For Diabetes Educators As Part Of Long-Term Commitment To Fight The Disease Roche, the maker of ACCU-CHEK blood glucose monitoring systems and insulin pumps, announced today the latest component of its Behavior Change through Patient Engagement (sm) program. Creative Coaching is an advanced educational program that fights the growing epidemic of diabetes by improving dialogue between diabetes educators and their patients. Click here to read this news article. |
| Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:00:00 PDT K2M Launches CASPIAN Spinal System To Address Cervico-Thoracic Pathologies K2M, Inc., a spinal device company developing innovative solutions for the treatment of complex spinal pathologies, today announced the launch of the CASPIAN? Spinal System. CASPIAN is an all-inclusive system for rigid posterior fixation addressing the high surgeon demand for treatment of complex cervico-thoracic spinal conditions. Click here to read this news article. |
| Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:00:00 PDT PARI LC Plus And PRONEB Ultra Used In Two Perforomist Studies On Improving COPD Therapies In two recent COPD studies sponsored by DEY LP, PARI's LC Plus nebulizer and PRONEB compressors (Ultra and Ultra II) were used to show that nebulized formoterol fumarate (Perforomist, DEY LP, Mylan Inc.) improves pulmonary function. "We are pleased that researchers chose PARI products as the exclusive nebulizer systems for recent studies comparing maintenance treatments for COPD. Sutherland et al. Click here to read this news article. |
| Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:00:00 PDT Enigma Diagnostics Announces Successful Evaluation Of The Enigma FL By The UK's Veterinary Laboratories Agency Enigma Diagnostics Limited, the decentralised and point-of-care molecular diagnostics company, announced successful independent testing for bovine viral diarrhoea (BVD) by the Veterinary Laboratories Agency to evaluate the performance of the Enigma FL (Field Laboratory). BVD is considered to be one of the main threats to cattle (1), affecting the majority of herds in the UK. Click here to read this news article. |
| Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:00:00 PDT Medical Device Development: Stanford Researchers Publish Comprehensive Model In an effort to increase understanding of the medical device development process and help companies execute the bench-to-bedside process of product development more effectively, researchers at Stanford University have published the first comprehensive model representing the medical device development process. Click here to read this news article. |
| Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:00:00 PDT Previously Confidential Study Results Released On Amputee Sprinter Oscar Pistorius A team of experts in biomechanics and physiology that conducted experiments on Oscar Pistorius, the South African bilateral amputee track athlete, have just published their findings in the Journal of Applied Physiology. Some of their previously confidential findings were presented to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Lausanne, Switzerland in May of 2008. Other findings are now being released for the first time. Click here to read this news article. |
| Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:00:00 PDT TAU Develops Superior Method For Coating Orthopaedic And Dental Implants Tel Aviv University researcher Prof. Noam Eliaz of the TAU School of Mechanical Engineering has developed an electrochemical process for coating metal implants which vastly improves their functionality, longevity and integration into the body. The new process could vastly improve the lives of people who have undergone complicated total joint replacement surgeries so they can better walk, run and ultimately avoid rejection of the implant by their bodies. Click here to read this news article. |
| Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:00:00 PDT Ablynx Announces A Novel Preclinical Development Candidate Targeting IL6R Ablynx [Euronext Brussels: ABLX], a pioneer in the discovery and development of Nanobodies®, a novel class of antibody-derived therapeutic proteins, announced that it has advanced ALX-0061, a new Nanobody®-based therapeutic programme, into preclinical development for the treatment of autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. ALX-0061 is a selective, low molecular weight biologic, binding to the IL6 receptor (IL6R). Click here to read this news article. |
| Tue, 30 Jun 2009 04:00:00 PDT Creating The Virtual Human It could mean the end of animal testing and eventually even clinical patient drug trials. The Virtual Physiological Human is a 21st century pan-European project that's gaining momentum and takes a major step forward this week at The University of Nottingham. http://www.vph-noe. Click here to read this news article. |
| Tue, 30 Jun 2009 04:00:00 PDT Isotopes, The Atomic Clues Used To Solve Crimes, Date Ancient Artifacts And Identify Chemicals Whether it's the summer grass that tickles your feet or the red Bordeaux smacking on your palette, nearly every part of the world around you carries special chemical markers. These markers, called isotopes, can tell scientists where the molecules that compose a substance are from, where they traveled, and what happened to them along the way. But doing these analyses has been complex and costly. Click here to read this news article. |
| Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:00:00 PDT European Society Of Cardiology Congress 2009: 29 August To 2 September, 2009 The latest news on procedures, drugs and equipment in the field of cardiology will be presented at the European Society of Cardiology congress which will take place in Barcelona, from 29 August to 2 September. With over 30,000 participants, the ESC Congress is the world's biggest cardiology meeting. A record number of abstract submissions - 9,848 - were registered this year, reflecting how the meeting is now the main platform for cardiovascular research. Click here to read this news article. |
| Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:00:00 PDT Surgeons Use USGI Medical's Incisionless Operating Platform To Reduce Pouch, Stoma Size In Gastric Bypass Patients New data show that surgeons can use USGI Medical Inc.'s (USGI) Incisionless Operating Platform(TM) (IOP) to durably reduce the size of the stomach pouch and stoma in Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass (RYGB) patients who are regaining weight because this portion of their anatomy has stretched since their original surgery. Click here to read this news article. |
| Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:00 PDT FDA Grants LUCAS? 2 Chest Compression System 510(k) Clearance In The United States Physio-Control Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE: MDT), announced today that LUCAS? 2, the next-generation LUCAS? Chest Compression System, has been granted 510(k) market clearance by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Click here to read this news article. |
| Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:00:00 PDT Prostate Cancer Screening Benefits Are Small, Says US Report The recently released results of two large randomized trials suggest there are no big benefits from prostate cancer screening, and if anything, they are quite small, says a new report by US researchers. And an accompanying editorial goes so far as to suggest that while screening has doubled the risk of a diagnosis, it has done little to reduce the risk of death from prostate cancer. Click here to read this news article. |
| Mon, 29 Jun 2009 06:00:00 PDT Reading The Brain Without Poking It Experimental devices that read brain signals have helped paralyzed people use computers and may let amputees control bionic limbs. But existing devices use tiny electrodes that poke into the brain. Now, a University of Utah study shows that brain signals controlling arm movements can be detected accurately using new microelectrodes that sit on the brain but don't penetrate it. Click here to read this news article. |
| Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:00:00 PDT Researchers Create Nano-Sized Assassins To Attack Implant Bacteria Staphylococcus epidermidis is quite an opportunist. Commonly found on human skin, the bacteria pose little danger. But S. epidermidis is a leading cause of infections in hospitals. From catheters to prosthetics, the bacteria are known to hitch a ride on a range of medical devices implanted into patients. Inside the body, the bacteria multiply on the implant's surface and then build a slimy, protective film to shield the colony from antibiotics. Click here to read this news article. |
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