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Glaucoma Dx Gets Computer Assist
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(MedPage Today) — Artificial intelligence will bring ‘reality’ to glaucoma diagnosis
Homocystinuria: Causes, symptoms, and tests
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What is homocystinuria? In this article, learn about the causes of this condition and who it affects, the symptoms, and how it is diagnosed and treated.
CompuFlo Epidural Anesthesia System Measures Pressure at Needle’s Tip, Cleared by FDA
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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...)
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 […]
Wayne State researchers receive $1.9 million NIH grant to better understand rare genetic disorders
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A team of Wayne State University researchers recently received a $1.9 million grant from the National Eye Institute of the National Institutes of Health to better understand leukodystrophies (LD) and genetic Leukoencephalopathies (gLE), rare genetic di…
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 […]
Ophthotech Corporation to Report Second Quarter 2017 Financial Results and Host Conference Call on Wednesday, July 26, 2017
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NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Ophthotech today announced that it will report its second quarter 2017 financial and operating results on Wednesday, July 26, 2017.
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...)
Aerie Pharmaceuticals Reports Positive Roclatan™ (netarsudil/latanoprost ophthalmic solution) 0.02%/0.005% Phase 3 12-month Topline Safety Results
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IRVINE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:AERI), a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development, and commercialization of first-in-class therapies for the treatment of patients with glaucoma and other diseases of the eye, today reported the successful 12-month safety results of the Company’s “Mercury 1” Phase 3 registration trial for its fixed-dose combination product candidate, Roclatan™. Mercury 1 is a 12-month safety and efficacy tria
ClinicalTrials.gov Registration May Be Misleading, Experts Say
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Stem cell companies have registered unregulated clinical trials at the government website ClinicalTrials.gov to deceptively recruit paying customers for their treatments, experts charge. Medscape Medical News
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...)
Corneal Crosslinking: A Look at Data That Convinced the FDA
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Although widely positive, this pivotal study has intriguing differences from the approved treatment. Dr Christopher Rapuano explains. Medscape Ophthalmology
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...)