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MINIMAL INVASIVE CANCER-FIGHTING ROBOT UNVEILED.
Jul 01, 2009 ... At the recent ILSI-Biomed Israel Conference, Israel's premier life sciences event, it was announced that a miniature crawling robot (ViRob) with the potential to treat lung cancer by performing precise medical procedures inside the human body, The ViRob can navigate and crawl in ...
PMI CLEARED TO LAUNCH INTELLIGENT SURGICAL INSTRUMENT CONSOLE.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Power Medical Interventions, Inc. (OTCBB: PMII.OB), Langhorne, Penn., a leader in developing and commercializing Intelligent Surgical Instruments, has announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared its 510(k) application for marketing its iDrive Intelligent Power ...
IRISH FIRM CROSPON UNVEILS ENDOFLIP GASTROENTEROLOGY.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Underscoring Ireland's emergence as an innovation leader in gastroenterology technology and treatment, a host of Irish companies from across the country and across a range of medical and pharmaceutical disciplines are traveling to Chicago, Illinois to showcase their innovations at the ...
PRESSURE BIOSCIENCES TO DEBUT PCT MICROTUBE ADAPTER KIT.
Jul 01, 2009 ... Pressure BioSciences, Inc. (Nasdaq:PBIO), South Easton, Mass, will unveil and release for sale its PCT MicroTube Adapter Kit (patent pending) at the 57th Annual Conference of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS), to be held at the Pennsylvania Convention Center (Philadelphia, ...
ORBUSNEICH'S GENOUS BIO-ENGINEERED STENT HAS GOOD RESULTS.(Clinical report)
Jun 01, 2009 ... At a recent symposium, Margo Klomp, MD from the Academic Medical Center (AMC), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, reported that final adjudicated 12 month follow up results from the randomized AMC single center TRIAS High Risk (HR) study showed a slightly higher target lesion revascularization ...
POWER MEDICAL INTERVENTIONS FILES FOR FDA MARKET CLEARANCE.
Jun 01, 2009 ... Power Medical InterventionsR, Inc. (Nasdaq:PMII), Langhorne, Pa., a leader in developing and commercializing Intelligent Surgical InstrumentsT, has filed a 510(k) application with the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requesting marketing clearance for the company's iDrive ...
EV3 INC. TO EVALUATE SILVERHAWK PLAQUE EXCISION SYSTEM.(Clinical report)
Jun 01, 2009 ... ev3 Inc., Plymouth, Minn., (NASDAQ:EVVV) has announced that the first patients were recently enrolled in the DEFINITIVE LE post-market study. DEFINITIVE LE is a prospective, multi-center, single-arm study to evaluate the intermediate and long-term effectiveness of stand-alone SilverHawk(R) ...
EXCELSIOR MEDICAL GETS FDA APPROVAL TO MARKET SWABCAP LUER CAP.
Jun 01, 2009 ... Excelsior Medical Corporation, Neptune, N.J., a leading medical device manufacturer headquartered in New Jersey, has received 510 (k) clearance to sell their SwabCap(TM) Luer Access Valve Disinfection Cap. SwabCap(TM) is designed to assist the caregiver and protect the patient by ...
VARIAN UNVEILS BRACHYTHERAPY APPLICATOR FOR CANCER TREATMENT.
Jun 01, 2009 ... Varian Medical Systems (NYSE:VAR), Charlottesville, Va., has introduced a new brachytherapy applicator set which is hoped to increase treatment precision and aid comfort for patients suffering from bronchial cancer. The Centering Intraluminal Applicator set is being made available for use ...
MILLIPORE AWARDED EU PATENT IN RFID TECHNOLOGY.
May 01, 2009 ... Millipore Corporation, Billerica, Mass., a Life Science leader providing technologies, tools and services for bioscience research and biopharmaceutical manufacturing, announced that it was issued a European patent entitled, "Use of gamma hardened RFID tags in pharmaceutical devices." ...
AETHLON HEMOPURIFIER ADJUNCT THERAPY FOR HEPATITIS-C.
May 01, 2009 ... Aethlon Medical, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: AEMD), San Diego, has announced clinical data that supports the advancement of the Aethlon Hemopurifier(R) as an adjunct therapy to increase Hepatitis-C (HCV) cure rates. The Hemopurifier(R) is a first-in-class medical device that assists the ...
LASER-SINTERING ENABLES AUTOMATED MANUFACTURE OF CROWNS/BRIDGES.
May 01, 2009 ... One particular sector of the rapidly growing healthcare industry is expanding even further: the market for dental implants. It is indisputable that even with the best of dental hygiene, nearly everyone will at some point or other need a dental implant of some sort. Cost consciousness, ...
CLINICAL DATA REINFORCE SAFETY/EFFICACY OF SPIRIT II/III.
May 01, 2009 ... Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE:BSX), Natick, Mass., has welcomed three-year results from the SPIRIT II Clinical Trial and a pooled meta-analysis of two-year data from the SPIRIT II and III Trials. SPIRIT II and SPIRIT III are prospective, randomized, non-inferiority trials with 300 ...
POWER MEDICAL INTERVENTIONS $2.5 MILLION FROM INTUITIVE SURGICAL.
Apr 01, 2009 ... Power Medical Interventions, Inc. (Nasdaq:PMII), a leader in developing and commercializing Intelligent Surgical InstrumentsT, has received a $2.5 million payment from Intuitive Surgical, Inc. The payment to Power Medical Interventions (PMI) was made in connection with the License and ...
SCIEMETRIC ZEROSIN ON ROOT CAUSES DEFECTS ON PRODUCTION LINE.
Apr 01, 2009 ... Sciemetric Instruments, Ottawa, Canada, whose assembly manufacturing quality systems are used by companies around the world to detect and analyze manufacturing defects as they occur, has been named a preferred supplier to one of the world's largest medical device manufacturers, cementing ...
COMPETITIVE TECHNOLOGIES REVEALS MEDICAL DEVICE STATEGIES.
Apr 01, 2009 ... Competitive Technologies, Inc. (NYSE Alternext US:CTT), Fairfield, Conn., has announced several elements in its corporate strategy. Mr. John B. Nano, CTT's Chairman, President and CEO confirmed that the authorization by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Medical Device CE ...
BOSTON SCIENTIFIC ANNOUNCES JAPANESE LAUNCH OF TAXUS SYSTEM.
Apr 01, 2009 ... Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE:BSX), Natick, Mass., has announced the launch of its TAXUS(R) Liberte(R) Paclitaxel-Eluting Coronary Stent System in Japan. The product was approved on January 28 by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, and reimbursement was granted by the National ...
ST. DAVID'S FIRST TO USE NAVISTAR RMT THERMOCOOL CATHETER.
Apr 01, 2009 ... The Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute at St. David's Medical Center became the first in the United States to utilize the long-awaited NaviStar(R) RMT ThermoCool(R) Catheter to treat abnormal heart rhythms, or arrhythmias, since the new technology received FDA approval on Feb. 27, 2009. ...
WELCH ALLYN UNVEILS METAL HALIDE FIBER-OPTIC ILLUMINATORS.
Mar 01, 2009 ... Welch Allyn Lighting Products, Skaneateles Falls, N.Y., a premier manufacturer of high-performance lighting and technology, introduces the "LB24" suite of Solarc metal halide fiber-optic illuminators for medical and industrial applications. LB24 products are compact, efficient, long-life ...
MDS DEBUTS SIX-CHANNEL SPECTRAMAX MICROPLATE LUMINOMETER.
Mar 01, 2009 ... MDS Analytical Technologies, Sunnyvale, Calif., a leader in innovative solutions for drug discovery and life sciences research, has introduced six-channel and two-channel versions of the SpectraMax(r) L, a new multiple photomultiplier-based platform for microplate luminometers designed for ...