University of Florida researchers have helped to develop a device that quickly identifies genes and proteins in body fluids – a technique that could make a vital difference to the trauma patients doctors treat. In a study published online Sunday in the September issue of Nature Medicine, scientists describe how they developed and tested a [...]

A new prototype device for healing diabetic wounds has been developed by Drexel’s College of Medicine and the School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems. The team of researchers behind this device included biomedical engineering professors Elisabeth Papazoglou, Leonid Zubkov and DUCOM professor Michael Weingarten. According to Weingarten, professor of surgery at the medical [...]

GE Healthcare has extended its ReadyToProcess™ platform of ready-to-use systems with the launch of ReadyCircuit disposable flow path assemblies and ReadyKart, a mobile processing station for the quick setup of sterile fluid processing systems. All new products are used in the manufacture of biopharmaceuticals. ReadyCircuit’s range of over 250 bags, sensors, filtration devices, tubing and [...]

AUSTIN: World’s smallest and lightest telemedicine microscope, of the size of a large egg, has been developed, which may help improve healthcare in developing countries. “This is a very capable and yet cost-effective microscope, shrunk into a very small package and weighing only 46 grams,” said inventor Aydogan Ozcan from the University of California, Los [...]

The FDA announced today that it has cleared Proteus Biomedical’s wireless, adhesive sensor technology Raisin, which can track and record a patient’s heart rate, physical activity, body position and other biometrics. Raisin then transmits the data via Bluetooth to a PC or mobile device. Proteus explains that the Raisin device is worn just like a [...]

Siemens Healthcare launched its new multifunctional workstation for urology, UROSKOP Omnia at the 25th EAU Congress in Barcelona last week. Thanks to its new dynamic flat detector technology UROSKOP Omnia allows the urologist to cover the entire urinary tract (kidney, ureter, bladder) with only one single exposure and in exceptional image quality. With its curved [...]

Offers solutions based on Blu-ray middleware developed by Philips, to reduce time-to-market for Wipro’s customers Wipro Technologies, the global IT services business of Wipro Limited (NYSE: WIT) has announced that the company has signed a partnership agreement with Philips to offer Blu-ray middleware and solution development services around Philips’ developed Blu-ray technology. Wipro enters the [...]

Around the world, improving health starts with improving access to healthcare technology. To meet this need, we must create both equipment and data that travels easily—connecting the hearts of patients to the minds of physicians seamlessly. The MAC 600 enables physicians to bring advanced ECG analysis to patients they could never reach before. With leading [...]

A new device ‘Arctic Front’ made by Medtronic Inc., of Minneapolis, showed promise in treating most common type of irregular heartbeat, otherwise not treatable by anti arrhythmic drugs. This device employs a technique that freezes the heart tissue with a balloon catheter to treat the heart rhythm disorder and was found to be 10 times [...]

Developed by researchers at the University of Tennessee, this new computerized self-test (CST) shows promise in early detection of Alzheimer’s and therefore makes possible a more effective treatment to be available for patients. This computerized self-test (CST) was developed by Rex Cannon and Dr John Dougherty, an associate professor in the UT Graduate School of [...]

Abott’s mitral valve repair device has proved to be a safe and effective alternative to open heart surgery that treats most common type of leaky valves- an experimental study has shown. Abott’s MitraClip has been available in Europe for about 18 months. In a recent trial, researchers compared conventional open-heart surgery to MitraClip- delivered to [...]

Using a breakthrough technology, a home-testing kit for cervical cancer has now been developed by a Norwegian company in collaboration with DrThom, an online service. This kit was developed keeping in mind those one in five women who are either too busy or too embarrassed to make it for a hospital screening. Cervical cancer is [...]

Medics at the at Ninewells Hospital in Dundee, UK, have recently unveiled a light emitting ‘Ambulight Plaster’, that uses focussed light to zap cancerous cells that cause skin cancer. This plaster is placed on the affected area of the skin after applying a medicated cream, followed by giving the area a photodynamic therapy treatment (PDT) [...]

Microorganisms are found everywhere although  most of them are harmless, but their presence  can do a lot of damage in the manufacture of pharmaceuticals or in tissue transplants. Now with the aid of a new device, germs can be detected in artificial cartilage within a few hours. It is known that we are surrounded by microorganisms. [...]

Feb 26, 2010 – February 28th 2010, Milford, IA – Thinix, a leading developer of touchscreen user interface technology is pleased to announce that two of their new software products will be on display at HIMSS. HIMSS10 is March 1-4 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, GA, USA. HIMSS is one of the [...]