Bruce Power, Nordion get their cobalt-60
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Nordion extends Chinese cobalt-60 supply agreement
BWXT completes acquisition of Nordion business
Nordion, Bruce Power collaborate to supply cobalt-60
Nordion nets funding for isotope venture
Canada renews Nordion's nuclear processing license (Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines)
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 27, 2019 Category: Radiology Source Type: news
Nordion extends Chinese cobalt-60 supply agreement
Sotera Health's Nordion medical isotope business has extended an existing cobalt-60...Read more on AuntMinnie.comRelated Reading:
BWXT completes acquisition of Nordion business
Sotera Health to sell Nordion business
Nordion, Bruce Power collaborate to supply cobalt-60
Nordion nets funding for isotope venture
Canada renews Nordion's nuclear processing license (Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines)
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 26, 2019 Category: Radiology Source Type: news
Medtronic Keeps DES Market Hot with New Indication
Rumblings in the Drug-Eluting Stent market continued this week after Medtronic said it has obtained FDA approval for an additional indication for its Resolute DES platform and the Resolute Integrity.
The Dublin-based company’s new indication is for the treatment of patients with coronary disease who have de novo chronic total occlusion (CTO), a complex vessel condition involving complete blockage of a coronary artery. CTO is considered more difficult to treat with percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) due to a greater risk of complications.
The expanded CTO indication was supported by data from the PER...
Source: MDDI - February 26, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Omar Ford Tags: Cardiovascular Business Source Type: news
Globus Medical lands Anthem coverage win for Secure-C spinal implant
Globus Medical (NYSE:GMED) last week said it won a coverage decision for its Secure-C cervical spine implant from health insurance giant Anthem (NYSE:ANTM).
Audubon, Pa.-based Globus said the decision means the device is covered by the major third-party payers in all 50 states. Anthem has more than 73 million lives under its coverage umbrella, according to Globus. The Secure-C device won pre-market approval from the FDA in 2012 and is is designed to restore normal movement to the neck in patients with disc problems that produce neck and arm pain. It consists of 2 cobalt-chrome endplates and a central polyethylene core...
Source: Mass Device - January 28, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Brad Perriello Tags: Orthopedics Spinal Wall Street Beat Anthem Inc. Globus Medical Reimbursement Source Type: news
Strangers in the Land: A Congolese Murder Case
A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the Third World. Maybe it's his first time around. He doesn't speak the language. He holds no currency. He is a foreign man. He is surrounded by the sound. The sound! Cattle in the marketplace, scatterlings and orphanages. He looks around, around.By Jan LundiusSTOCKHOLM / ROME, Jan 21 2019 (IPS)I thought about this song by Paul Simon while I in 2011 spent a few weeks in Kinshasa. I was a foreign man in a strange world, surrounded by sights and sounds, completely dependent on my new-found Congolese friends. When our taxi got stuck in a traffic jam and...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - January 21, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Jan Lundius Tags: Africa Aid Armed Conflicts Crime & Justice Featured Headlines Health Human Rights TerraViva United Nations Source Type: news
Powerful X-ray beams unlock secrets of nanoscale crystal formation
(Georgia Institute of Technology) High-energy X-ray beams and a clever experimental setup allowed researchers to watch a high-pressure, high-temperature chemical reaction to determine for the first time what controls formation of two different nanoscale crystalline structures in the metal cobalt. The technique allowed continuous study of cobalt nanoparticles as they grew from clusters including tens of atoms to crystals as large as five nanometers. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - January 7, 2019 Category: Biology Source Type: news
A linear cobalt(II) complex with maximal orbital angular momentum from a non-Aufbau ground state
Orbital angular momentum is a prerequisite for magnetic anisotropy, although in transition metal complexes it is typically quenched by the ligand field. By reducing the basicity of the carbon donor atoms in a pair of alkyl ligands, we synthesized a cobalt(II) dialkyl complex, Co(C(SiMe2ONaph)3)2 (where Me is methyl and Naph is a naphthyl group), wherein the ligand field is sufficiently weak that interelectron repulsion and spin-orbit coupling play a dominant role in determining the electronic ground state. Assignment of a non-Aufbau (dx2–y2, dxy)3(dxz, dyz)3(dz2)1 electron configuration is supported by dc magnetic su...
Source: ScienceNOW - December 20, 2018 Category: Science Authors: Bunting, P. C., Atanasov, M., Damgaard-Moller, E., Perfetti, M., Crassee, I., Orlita, M., Overgaard, J., van Slageren, J., Neese, F., Long, J. R. Tags: Chemistry, Materials Science, Online Only r-articles Source Type: news
Cobalt unfettered by its ligand field
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Source: ScienceNOW - December 20, 2018 Category: Science Authors: Yeston, J. Tags: Chemistry, Materials Science twis Source Type: news
Latest RESPONSE Scoliosis System Meets U.S. Food and Drug Administration Standards
The RESPONSE 4.5/5.0mm Scoliosis System is designed for treating the needs of pediatric patients with spinal deformities. The system’s hybrid implant technology provides the option of 4.5 mm rod (cobalt-chromium) or 5.0mm rod (titanium or cobalt-chromium) and multiple implant connector options. The product features proprietary set screw thread design and pedicle screw head that accepts multiple rod diameters in either cobalt chrome or titanium.This story is related to the following:Medical Equipment& Supplies (Source: Industrial Newsroom - Health, Medical and Dental Supplies)
Source: Industrial Newsroom - Health, Medical and Dental Supplies - December 17, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Source Type: news
Ultralow-loading platinum-cobalt fuel cell catalysts derived from imidazolate frameworks
Achieving high catalytic performance with the lowest possible amount of platinum is critical for fuel cell cost reduction. Here we describe a method of preparing highly active yet stable electrocatalysts containing ultralow-loading platinum content by using cobalt or bimetallic cobalt and zinc zeolitic imidazolate frameworks as precursors. Synergistic catalysis between strained platinum-cobalt core-shell nanoparticles over a platinum-group metal (PGM)–free catalytic substrate led to excellent fuel cell performance under 1 atmosphere of O2 or air at both high-voltage and high-current domains. Two catalysts achieved ox...
Source: ScienceNOW - December 13, 2018 Category: Science Authors: Chong, L., Wen, J., Kubal, J., Sen, F. G., Zou, J., Greeley, J., Chan, M., Barkholtz, H., Ding, W., Liu, D.-J. Tags: Chemistry, Materials Science reports Source Type: news
Dynamic digitalisation: In the laboratories of the future at the International Dental Show (IDS) 2019
Digitalisation is boosting laboratories - a large selection of materials - high flexibility in the production - new procedures for attractive total prosthetics - IDS demonstrates the opportunitiesWe can see two sections in the midst of the global development, the analogue and the digital world. There are long-term stable trends (in particular: " the mega trend health " ) and the fast-beat " bits and bytes " of the digital dental technologies. Those dental technicians, who know how to bring these two together, profit the most. Retaining the overview and making targeted future decisions, visiting the International Dental Sho...
Source: Dental Technology Blog - December 7, 2018 Category: Dentistry Source Type: news
Should You Develop Your Own Material Specification and Skip ASTM ’s?
The basic format for an ASTM standardized metal alloy for medical uses includes a specification of the required elements as well as one or more undesirable elements for which there is a maximum allowable amount.
For example, ASTM F2886, last approved in 2017, covers Metal Injection Molded Cobalt-28Chromium-6Molybdenum Components for Surgical Implant Applications. While the name gives part of the recipe, a more-detailed list of elements specifies that chromium must be between 27 and 30%, and molybdenum between 5 and 7%. Thus, these major required alloying elements together constitute 32 to 37% of the mix. Twelve other eleme...
Source: MDDI - November 6, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: William A. Hyman Tags: Regulatory and Compliance Source Type: news
Biotronik receives FDA approval for covered coronary stent
[Image from Biotronik]Biotronik has received FDA approval for its PK Papyrus covered coronary stent system.
The PK Papyrus coronary stent system is a balloon-expandable covered stent that is placed in the coronary artery using a balloon catheter delivery system. The stent system is designed to treat tears in heart blood vessels, known as coronary artery perforations. It is manufactured from cobalt-chromium metal alloy and covered with a polyurethane membrane.
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Source: Mass Device - October 30, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Danielle Kirsh Tags: Cardiac Implants Featured Food & Drug Administration (FDA) Regulatory/Compliance Biotronik Source Type: news
Here & #039;s What MD+DI Readers Said About The Bleeding Edge
As part of MD+DI's coverage last week of the Netflix documentary, The Bleeding Edge, we asked readers for feedback on the film and its assessment of the medical device industry. A total of 62 respondents took the three-question survey.Â
1. The Bleeding Edge claims that FDA's 510(k) process, reportedly the most popular way medical devices reach the U.S. market, doesn’t require the submission of as much safety data as does the premarket approval (PMA) process. Do you believe this is a fair depiction?
Of the 62 respondents who answered this question, 48 (77.42%) said yes, and just 14 ...
Source: MDDI - August 27, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: MDDI Staff Tags: Regulatory and Compliance Source Type: news
Netflix ’ s ‘ The Bleeding Edge ’ raises big questions for medical device manufacturers
Sandra Maddock, president and CEO, IMARC Research
Thanks in large part to innovation in the medical device industry, the average human lifespan has nearly doubled in the past hundred years. Medical devices have undoubtedly improved the quality of life for millions of people, too.
But a provocative new Netflix documentary raises an important question: Is there a point when innovation goes too far?
The Bleeding Edge, produced by Academy-Award nominated filmmakers Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering, tells the stories of patients who say they’ve suffered serious health problems as a result of recent medical devices being used in t...
Source: Mass Device - August 24, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Danielle Kirsh Tags: Blog IMARC Source Type: news
