Milestone Scientific, Inc., a company out of Livingston, New Jersey, achieved FDA clearance for its CompuFlo Epidural Computer Controlled Anesthesia System. Milestone’s DPS Dynamic Pressure Sensing Technology is able to provide precise and continuous measurement of the pressure at the tip of the syringe, both helping to guide anesth (Read more...)
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Deep Learning Algorithm Diagnoses Schizophrenia from fMRI Scans
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A scientific collaboration between researchers at IBM and the University of Alberta in Canada has come up with a software tool that analyzes functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scans of patient brains and with 74% accuracy diagnoses schizophrenia. Moreover, the software’s algorithms were also able to reasonably estimate how bad (Read more...)
New, More Effective Flu Vaccine Delivered Using Dissolvable Microneedle Patch
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Researchers at Georgia State University have developed a more effective way of delivering influenza vaccines thanks to a dissolvable microneedle array and a special formulation of the vaccine. The microneedle device is made of a biocompatible polymer, the needles of which are tightly packed with the vaccine. The vaccine works well thanks to a novel (Read more...)
New Way to Reprogram Macrophages Helps Immune System Kill Tumors
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Macrophages, as their greek-derived name implies, are hungry white blood cells that consume all kinds of foreign and unwanted objects within the body. They are one of the primary methods that the immune system uses to fight off disease, and they work by checking the protein content on the exterior of cells to identify whether […]
Embrace Neonatal MRI System Cleared to Stay Inside Neonatal ICUs
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The FDA has just cleared Aspect Imaging‘s Embrace Neonatal MRI System, the first dedicated neonatal MRI system to receive a regulatory green light in the U.S. It’s intended to be used to image the head and brain, and to remain inside of neonatal intensive care units (NICU). Currently, these fragile little patients have to be […]
New MRI Probe Highlights Fibrogenesis to Help Track Scar Formation Noninvasively
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Tissue injuries often result in fibrogenesis, a process involving the development of an extracellular matrix that results in scars. While it can be viewed on the exterior of the body, currently there are no noninvasive methods to track the progress of fibrogenesis within the body’s interior. A team of researchers at Harvard Medical Schoo (Read more...)
Stryker’s MultiGen 2RF Generator for Facet Joint Ablations Cleared by FDA
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Stryker, a company best known for orthopedic devices, won FDA clearance to introduce its MultiGen 2 RF Generator in the U.S. The device is used to treat pain deriving from facet joints in the spine by delivering radiofrequency energy that ablates targeted tissues. Compared to the previous version of the device, Stryker claims that the MultiGen (Read more...)
Stryker’s MultiGen 2RF Generator for Facet Joint Ablations Cleared by FDA
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Stryker, a company best known for orthopedic devices, won FDA clearance to introduce its MultiGen 2 RF Generator in the U.S. The device is used to treat pain deriving from facet joints in the spine by delivering radiofrequency energy that ablates targeted tissues. Compared to the previous version of the device, Stryker claims that the MultiGen (Read more...)
Non-Invasive gammaCore Device to Fight Pain of Cluster Headaches Released in U.S.
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The gammaCore non-invasive vagus nerve stimulator from electroCore, a Basking Ridge, New Jersey company, is now available for adult patients to treat acute pain arising from episodic cluster headaches. Currently only available with a doctor’s prescription, the gammaCore device is used to transmit an electric current through the neck (Read more...)
New Tissue Glue Can be Clearly Seen With X-Rays and Ultrasound
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Researchers at Korea’s Institute for Basic Science and Seoul National University Hospital have designed and tested a glue for binding tissues that also works as a contrast agent for X-rays, CTs, and ultrasound imaging modalities. This is the first such tissue glue to have this set of properties, and, if approved for clinical applications,&nbs (Read more...)
Vericred Announces Medicare Advantage Market Addition to Health Insurance Data Platform
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Last month Vericred, a healthcare data services company, announced the addition of a provider-network notification capability to its suite of services, a first for the healthcare data industry. This week, Vericred took another important step to expand their offering with the addition of Medicare Advantage plan design and rate data, provider-network (Read more...)
New Exhaled Breath Sensor to Spot Diseases, Monitor Health
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At KAIST, the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in South Korea, researchers have developed a new breath sensor that uses protein-encapsulated nanocatalysts to spot certain biomarkers of diseases. While the breath can hold a lot of information about what’s going on inside the body, the variety of gasses present and the la (Read more...)
BIOTRONIK’s New CRT-ICDs Alleviate Atrial Lead Without Sacrificing Diagnostics
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BIOTRONIK won FDA approval and is releasing in the U.S. its Intica DX and Intica cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT)-DX implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICD). The DX indicator refers to BIOTRONIK’s technology that obviates the necessity of having an atrial lead to monitor the electrical activity in the atrium, a way that cardiolog (Read more...)
New Device Makes Possible Simultaneous MRI and EEG Recordings
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At the recent International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Annual Meeting, researchers from Purdue University presented a new technology capable of recording electroencephalography (EEG) signals from the brain while a patient is inside an MRI machine. This may cause a revolution for the study of the brain, as functional MRI (f (Read more...)
Software Models Liver’s Movement to Guide Surgeons to Target Tumors
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Squishy viscera, such as the liver, can change their shape significantly from the time a CT scan is taken that spots a tumor to when it’s excised during surgery. Various tags have been developed that can be tacked onto tissue in order to use as a point to calibrate against, but this approach still doesn’t quite […]
Expansion Microscopy Swells Samples for Better Imaging
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When trying to use light and conventional optics to image a biological sample at great detail, one eventually encounters the fact that objects smaller than the light’s wavelength cannot be resolved. While technological tricks have been developed to overcome this limitation in some ways, a team of researchers from MIT and Harvard have ins (Read more...)
Hemopurifier Filters Ebola, Hep C, Metastatic Melanoma: Interview with James A. Joyce, CEO of Aethlon Medical
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Filtering infectious pathogens and cancer cells directly from whole blood has been an almost fantastic proposition, but the Hemopurifier from Aethlon Medical does just that. We’ve been covering it for over 10 years on Medgadget as it proves itself in clinical trials and new applications for it are discovered. It has already been stu (Read more...)
New Microfluidic Chip Detects Circulating Tumor Cells in Real Time
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At the Rovira i Virgili University in Catalan, Spain, researchers have developed and patented a microfluidic device for detecting circulating tumor cells within whole blood that originate from breast cancer tumors and which are responsible for metastasis. The device, reported on in journal Scientific Reports, and already tested on blood (Read more...)
Researchers Optically Clear Blood Clots to Study Their Structure and Pathogenesis
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These days blood clots are often successfully removed from the body using minimally invasive catheter-based tools. They are then summarily discarded, but researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, University of California, Riverside, and University of Notre Dame have developed an investigative non-clinical imaging technique that allows the (Read more...)
Breathable, Flexible Electronics Allow Long Term On-Skin Health Monitoring
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At the University of Tokyo in Japan researchers have developed a new method of producing stretchable electronics that are breathable, don’t irritate the skin, and weigh next to nothing. The development may lead to ubiquitous use of on-skin electronic sensors to monitor the body continuously in a variety of places and ways. The research team [ (Read more...)