Archive for the ‘Medical Devices’ Category
Monday, February 25th, 2008
SonoSite, Inc., (Nasdaq:SONO), the world leader in point-of-care, hand-carried ultrasound, announced the new M-OB/GYN Office™ ultrasound tool specifically customized for the physician's office. The company plans to begin customer shipments this month.
Based on SonoSite's fourth generation M-Turbo™ platform, the M-OB/GYN Office system delivers an exponential increase in processing power and ...
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
At the Chicago Dental Society Midwinter Show, SensAble Technologies, Inc®, a leading provider of 3D touch-enabled modeling solutions, announced the SensAble™ Dental Lab System, an integrated solution to scan, design and fabricate common dental restorations. It is the first integrated digital solution to support the production process for partial frameworks, ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled 8-1 that FDA approval of certain medical devices protects manufacturers from product liability lawsuits filed in state courts, the New York Times reports. According to the Times, federal law "makes no provision for damage suits against device makers," and, as a result, "injured ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
ART Advanced Research Technologies Inc. ("ART") (TSX:ARA), a Canadian medical device company and a leader in optical molecular imaging products for the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries, is pleased to announce the first sale of its SoftScan® optical breast imaging system to the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre ('Sunnybrook") in Toronto, Canada. ...
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 8 to 1 today in favor of Medtronic (NYSE:MDT) in Riegel v. Medtronic, Inc. The decision reaffirms that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) pre-market approval process for medical devices, which expertly balances the patient benefits and risks, appropriately preempts state tort lawsuits involving ...
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
An improved but still flawed government-wide plan for nanotechnology risk research is the result of a broken system. Federally-funded studies essential to managing possible risks from this cutting-edge technology should be guided by a top-down strategy tied to projected commercialization, expected human and environmental exposures, and the regulatory decision-making process.
The ...
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
If you have contact lenses, an artificial hip joint, a dental implant, a mechanical heart valve or just about any medical device in your body, you can thank a bioengineer.
The society's founders and past presidents, an international group, are gathering to commemorate the contributions of bioengineers that have benefited so ...
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
Textronics, Inc. has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance to market its textile-based ECG Electrode for use in general electrocardiograph monitoring and recording procedures. The company's heart-sensing fabric offers a comfortable alternative to adhesive electrodes and metal wristbands that are commonly used with most ECG instruments on the ...
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
NanoString Technologies announced the first peer-reviewed publication describing NanoString's technology will be published in the Nature Biotechnology March 7th issue and is available in the Advanced Online Publication section.
The paper entitled Direct Multiplexed Measurement of Gene Expression with Color-Coded Probe Pairs describes the performance of the nCounter Analysis System, which ...
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