Hill-Rom is releasing a new hospital bed designed for patients with serious wounds. The Envella Air Fluidized Therapy Bed pumps air from below a mattress-like layer of silicone beads, helping to make sure that even the tissue that is contact with the bed receives air circulation while helping to distribute pressure evenly. The company says tha (Read more...)
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Chemical Engineers Help Nanoparticles Better Target Brain Tumors
Getting drugs into the brain by cloaking them within nanoparticles that can sneak through the blood-brain barrier has been the focus of a lot of nanotechnology research over the past few years. There’s quite a bit of progress toward that goal, including some notable successes. Because of this progress, scientists are coming to the realization (Read more...)
Live Free or Die: A Look at New Hampshire’s Medical Technology Sector
There’s a lot of reasons you should consider visiting New Hampshire. The 9th state in the Union is picturesque and quintessential New England in its natural beauty and architecture. Lakes, mountains, and a tiny 18-mile coastline dot the state, making it a recreation lover’s paradise. And if retail therapy is more your thing, New Hampshi (Read more...)
Nitrite Sensor to Help Asthmatics Detect Onset of Airway Inflammation
The presence of relatively high concentrations of nitrite (NO2−) in exhaled breath may be indicative of the presence of inflammatory processes within the airways, and so measuring it may be an effective way of performing early detection of the onset of the symptoms of asthma and other respiratory conditions. Devices that are able to measure [ (Read more...)
Interview with Harshal Shah, Head of Oncology Drug Delivery at Cambridge Consultants
Thanks to the ongoing advancements in standards of care and gradual improvements in more targeted therapeutics, some argue that cancer is slowly turning into a chronic disease, and with it bringing about a host of new challenges for oncology care. These challenges are also opening up a variety of new opportunities for technical innovations that [&h (Read more...)
Myoscience iovera System Cleared for Treating Painful Osteoarthritic Knees
Myoscience, a company based in Fremont, California won FDA clearance for its iovera cryoneurolysis system to be used for symptom and pain relief in the knees arising from osteoarthritis. The company’s so-called Focused Cold Therapy delivery system pumps pressurized liquid nitrous oxide (N2O) to the treatment tip, where it is made to (Read more...)
Optoacoustics May Allow Surgeons See Tumor Margins for Accurate Excisions
While doctors have gotten pretty good at finding and excising tumors, identifying whether they have been removed in their entirety remains a challenge. Histology slides are today’s standard, but processing the tissue, freezing, slicing it, staining, imaging, and analysis take much too long. Patients are often sent home, only to find out later (Read more...)
Small, Cheap, Disposable Sensors for Detecting Organic Volatile Compounds in Breath
At the University of Illinois, researchers have developed small, extremely sensitive detectors of volatile organic compounds, seemingly capable of sensing such chemicals at concentrations even our noses can’t detect. While there are a lot of applications for such technology in medicine and other fields, the researchers chose to detect am (Read more...)
Non-Contact Respiratory Rate Sensor Built Into a Cotton T-Shirt
At the Université Laval in Quebec City, Canada, researchers have developed a respiration sensor built into a t-shirt that can be sampled by a nearby radio device. The idea is that patients in a hospital would wear a lightweight, comfortable shirt that doesn’t have any wires, while their breathing rate would be discreetly moni (Read more...)
Cordis Unveil New Interventional Cardiology Products
Cordis, the interventional vascular arm of Cardinal Health, has announced three new additions to its cardiology portfolio for use in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. The new products were on show at EUROPCR 2017 in Paris this week and include the RAILWAY Sheathless Access System and two new percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (P (Read more...)
BrainCool’s IQool Patient Cooling System Cleared in U.S.
BrainCool, a company based in Lund, Sweden, landed FDA clearance to introduce its IQool patient cooling system. Pads filled with BrainCool’s “BCCOOL” non-toxic liquid are placed around the patient’s head and neck, thighs, and the torso, and a programmable chiller cools and moves the liquid through the pads. The pads don&rsqu (Read more...)
Interview with Dave Liebl, Heraeus Medical Components
Heraeus Medical Components (HMC) is known for its state-of-the-art solutions delivered to the global medical device industry. The company boasts seven production sites across the USA, Europe, Asia, and Central America, designing and manufacturing key components for leading medical devices. Recently, Medgadget readers may have seen the keynote addre (Read more...)
Shockwave’s Lithoplasty System Now Cleared in EU for Coronary Artery Disease Treatment
Shockwave Medical out of Fremont, California won the European CE Mark to introduce its Coronary Lithoplasty System for helping to place stents into coronary arteries in patients that have substantial calcified plaque. Lithoplasty is Shockwave’s name for its technology (aka lithotripsy) that delivers sonic waves via a specialty catheter direct (Read more...)
Vectra WB360 Whole-Body Skin Lesion Mapping System
Canfield Scientific (Parsippany, NJ) have recently installed the first commercial Vectra WB360 whole-body skin lesion mapping system. Skin cancer can develop from lesions on the skin, such as moles. If a lesion begins to change shape or size it might be turning cancerous. For people at risk of skin cancer, such as those who have already [&hell (Read more...)
iGlucose Glucometer with Built-In Cellular Connectivity and API Interoperability
Smart Meter Corporation, a New York firm, won both FDA clearance and European CE Mark approval for its iGlucose system, a blood glucose meter that features built-in cellular connectivity. Diabetics using the iGlucose will have the convenience of seeing their readings automatically uploaded to the company’s web portal, from where their d (Read more...)
Body Vision Medical’s LungVision System Merges Pre-Op CT with Intraoperative Imaging
Lung lesions these days are typically found and mapped via CT scans, that provide an imaging resolution sufficient to see them. During biopsies and surgeries, fluoroscopes are used, but their lower image quality makes it usually impossible to actually see whether you’re excising the correct tissue’s margins. Body Vision Medical, wi (Read more...)
Interview: Momentum Software Links Trained Responders with Nearby Medical Emergencies
The progress of emergency medicine and the technology that’s inside of modern ambulances helped to save millions of people around the world. Yet, in many cases the response time to acute life threatening situations is still too long, with too many people dying that could have been rescued. Modern technologies, such as automatic stoplight (Read more...)
EverSleep, a Sleep Tracker with Oxygenation Monitoring Looking for Funding on Indiegogo
SomnoHealth, a young company out of Golden, Colorado, is looking to introduce its EverSleep sleep tracker via an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign. The device is worn around the wrist and has a pulse oximeter built-in that provides blood oxygen saturation monitoring, in addition to an accelerometer for noticing motion, and a sound monitor for detecti (Read more...)
Smart Tactile Touchpad Helps Visually Impaired People Better Understand Their Surroundings (Video)
At École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland, engineers have developed a novel touchpad that can represent various objects, idea, and locations to help visually impaired people to learn, navigate, and interact with the world. As part of the BlindPAD project, the device has a bunch of knobs that can pop up o (Read more...)
Full Body Optoacoustic Functional Imaging of Small Animals
Researchers working at Duke University and Washington University in St. Louis developed a new photoacoustic technique called single-impulse photoacoustic computed tomography (SIP-PACT) that provides an amazing high resolution look inside small living animals such as mice. Photoacoustic imaging involves shining a laser light into tissue, which (Read more...)