Gore just announced winning FDA approval for its GORE TAG Conformable Thoracic Stent Graft with ACTIVE CONTROL System. The thoracic endovascular aortic repair system is based on the Conformable GORE TAG Device, but with a new, more robust control mechanism that helps to position the implant with greater accuracy and confidence. The implant its (Read more...)
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Bloomlife and imec Partner to Create Low Power 5-Channel Fetal ECG
The Belgian research organization imec and Bloomlife, a company that develops pregnancy monitoring technology, has unveiled a new chip capable of tracking five channels of fetal heart rate ECG (electrocardiography) along with mobility of the child inside the womb. The prototype device, dubbed BeatleIC, is capable of detecting fetal ECG as early as (Read more...)
Stereotaxis Unveils New Magnetic Robotic Cardiac Navigation System
Stereotaxis, a company that has developed robotic magnetic navigation technology to deliver catheters to the heart during ablation procedures, is introducing its latest generation system. The new Stereotaxis Genesis RMN platform features smaller magnets that can rotate around their center of mass, and which are positioned inside robotic arms that c (Read more...)
World’s First Surgical Vending Machine
Xenco Medical, a company that makes disposable spinal tools and implants, is unveiling a vending machine for tracking and dispensing these devices. Clinicians have a huge touchscreen display to choose what they’d like to retrieve out of the machine. The same display can be used to get some specs on the various devices and watch […]
Sweat Sensor Measures Variety of Biochemicals to Help Monitor Exercise, Disease
Our skin excretes a wide array of important biomarkers that may help to track physical exertion, diagnose disease, and track progression of a condition. Exercise, in particular, leads to a significant change in the composition of our sweat, signaling dehydration, lack of electrolytes, or other problems. Scientists at KTH Royal Institute of Technolo (Read more...)
Intestine Chip to Study Human-Microbiome Interactions
Researchers at the Harvard Wyss Institute have developed a microfluidic chip that allows bacteria and human epithelial cells to be co-cultured. The device will allow researchers to study how the gut and bacteria interact, helping them to identify the role of the microbiome in health and disease. With reported involvement in a huge array of [&hellip (Read more...)
Rewellio Offers a New Approach to Utilizing EMG-Biofeedback in Stroke Rehab: Interview with Rewellio’s CEO
Rewellio, an Austrian software company, is trying to revolutionize stroke rehabilitation by building an app, which integrates with readily available consumer electronic devices such as tablets and virtual reality headsets, to make stroke rehabilitation more engaging and accessible. The company recently launched the first version of its app, which f (Read more...)
Scorpion Protein Used to Help Visualize Brain Tumors
Clinicians at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Institute, along with scientists at Blaze Bioscience, Inc., have developed a new way to visualize brain tumors. The new imaging technique utilizes a special, high-sensitivity near-infrared camera developed at Cedars-Sinai, along with tozuleristide, or BLZ-100, the tumor-cell binding imaging agent developed by (Read more...)
AliveCor Introduces World’s First 6-Lead Consumer ECG, the KardiaMobile 6L
AliveCor, founded by Dr. David Albert, is the company that introduced reliable and useful ECG monitoring to consumers. Their products, which operate as basic single-lead ECG devices, have been cleared by the FDA to be able to detect cardiac arrhythmias, including atrial fibrillation, tachycardia, and bradycardia. They have been quite limited still, (Read more...)
Software Listens to Stethoscope to Classify Heart Sounds: Now FDA Cleared
eMurmur, a Canadian firm, just won FDA clearance for its eMurmur ID system that spots and classifies heart murmurs, as well as S1, S2 heart sounds. The offering, the core of which resides in the cloud, relies on sounds recorded using a third-party electronic stethoscope. The user simply pairs a Bluetooth-capable stethoscope to a smartphone [&hellip (Read more...)
Bioengineered Viruses Used to Kill Antibiotic-Resistant Infection
Scientists at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute have achieved a world’s first of beating a bacterial infection using an engineered virus. This was done in a 15-year-old girl with cystic fibrosis who had a severe case of Mycobacterium. The girl received a double lung transplant, but then developed the infection that antibiotics could not kil (Read more...)
BioSig Technologies Announces First Clinical Cases with PURE EP System: Interview with Ken Londoner, CEO
BioSig Technologies has developed the PURE EP electrophysiology information system, a product that aims to provide better tools for doctors who are treating potentially deadly arrhythmias. The computerized system is used to process electrophysiological signals and provides capabilities to acquire, store, amplify, measure, and display such signals. (Read more...)
Smart Suitcase and App Combo Help Blind People Get Around Pittsburgh International
Getting around airports can be challenging for people with good vision, let alone for those that can’t see. Now engineers at Carnegie Mellon University have partnered with Pittsburgh International Airport to develop a smart system that helps blind people safely get from place to place. A smart suitcase, outfitted with a camera, is able to [&h (Read more...)
Video Game Shown to Help Reduce Sugar Intake, Drop Weight, for People with Sweet Tooth
Sugar is considered to be a devil in much of the nutritional community these days. It is blamed for the obesity epidemic, increased rates of diabetes, and many other maladies that are on the rise. But the stuff is readily available just about everywhere in all kinds of enticing formats, so self-control is a major […]
Cardiovascular Patch to Limit Damage After Heart Attack
Researchers from Brown University have utilized computational models to design a new viscoelastic patch to reduce damage to heart tissue after a heart attack. They utilized a special blend of starch to help provide mechanical support to the heart tissue, which typically stretches after heart attack and results in poor heart function. “Part of (Read more...)
IRRAS Rolling Out New Irrigating Cerebrospinal Fluid Catheter System for Hydrocephalus
Swedish medical device company IRRAS is attempting to change the way neurosurgeons and neurointensivists handle the problem of acute hydrocephalus. Hydrocephalus is the abnormal accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) in the brain, and is often caused by hemorrhage, tumor, infection, or traumatic brain injury. Traditionally, surgeons use an exter (Read more...)
Machine Learning Helps Design Complex Immunotherapies
Researchers from Northwestern University have leveraged machine learning to aid in the design of nanomedicines for immunotherapy. They utilized a high-throughput method to synthesize 800 unique immunostimulatory nanoparticles called Spherical Nucleic Acids (SNAs). “Spherical nucleic acids represent an exciting new class of medicines that are (Read more...)
Tempo Lead Temporary Heart Trans-Surgical Pacing Lead Cleared in EU
BioTrace Medical, a small company headquartered in Menlo Park, California, announced that its Tempo Lead temporary intracardiac pacing lead has been cleared in Europe under the CE Mark. The device is intended for cardiac procedures that require external pacing, such as during transcatheter valve replacements, and it is the only active fixation temp (Read more...)
SentreHEART Wins EU Clearances for LARIAT LAA Closure System
SentreHEART, based in Silicon Valley, won the European CE mark for its LARIAT-RS 50mm percutaneous left atrial appendage (LAA) closure device. The LARIAT-RS is currently the only product available in Europe that is not an implant, but really a procedure, to fully and permanently close the LAA. In addition to the LARIAT-RS 50 mm being […]
Abbott Releases Confirm Rx Insertable Heart Monitor
Abbott is finally launching its Confirm Rx insertable cardiac monitor, a device that received FDA clearance and European regulatory approval back in 2017. The implant is inserted via a small incision during an outpatient procedure, not even requiring a suture to stitch it up. Following, it is able to communicate with a paired-up smartphone via [&he (Read more...)