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Boston Scientific ALTREA Pacemaker EU Approved

Boston Scientific just received approval from the EU to market the company's newest family of pacemakers. The following features are listed in the press release: ALTRUA is Boston Scientific's most...

Started in Medgadget • 6 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: cardiac surgery, cardiology, radiology
Peak PlasmaBlade Wants to Be The New Bovie

PEAK Surgical, Inc. from Palo Alto, CA hates the bovie cutter/coagulator. The company cannot stand the 1920's technology behind the bovie, and how its thermal function destroys healthy patient tissue...

Started in Medgadget • 6 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: cardiac surgery, neurological surgery, ob/gyn, orthopedic surgery, plastic surgery
A Note on Medical Pixie Dust

Yesterday we published a story about a man who re-grew a tip of his finger using "pixie-dust" supposedly sent to him by his brother who worked in a regenerative medicine lab. By now the story has...

Started in Medgadget • 6 months ago • 0 responses
Peak PlasmaBlade Wants to Be a New Bovie

PEAK Surgical, Inc. from Palo Alto, CA hates the bovie cutter/coagulator. The company cannot stand the 1920's technology behind the bovie, and how its thermal function destroys healthy patient tissue...

Started in Medgadget • 6 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: cardiac surgery, neurological surgery, ob/gyn, orthopedic surgery, plastic surgery
HYDROCHALARONE MRI Contrast Agent Does Well in Early Study

HYDROCHALARONE™ nanomaterial is a next generation contrast agent, under development by Roanoke, Virginia based firm Luna Innovations, that has just been successfully demonstrated as an...

Started in Medgadget • 6 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: nanomedicine, radiology
In the Works: Inhalable Drug Testing Device

Cambridge Consultants is reporting that the company is developing "a low-cost, portable instrument that has the potential to revolutionise [sic] the way certain drug delivery devices are tested."...

Started in Medgadget • 6 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: diagnostics
The SolarAid Revisited

Two years ago we reported on the SolarAid, a low cost solar-powered hearing aid intended for the hearing-impaired in developing countries. A recent article in Newsweek looks at the success of the...

Started in Medgadget • 6 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: in the news...
Gore Receives EU's CE Mark for PRECLUDE Vessel Guard

Gore & Associates has received EU's approval to market its PRECLUDE vessel guard, developed to provide protection for vasculature following anterior spinal surgery for degenerative disc disease,...

Started in Medgadget • 6 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: neurological surgery, orthopedic surgery, vascular surgery
ei*Nav/Artemis Prostate Ultrasound Machine Receives FDA Clearance

Eigen, a Grass Valley, California company, just received FDA clearance for its 4D ultrasound system specifically designed for urologists to find and track prostate cancer biopsy locations. Using...

Started in Medgadget • 6 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: urology
Chew This Over: Mechanical Mouth Unveiled in France

French researchers have developed an artificial mechanical mouth, which can supposedly munch up food very similarly to how a human mouth does it. The device is intended to be used for testing various...

Started in Medgadget • 6 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: in the news...