Does Google Glass Have a Future in Medicine?
Michael Browne
Health-care professionals are split on the use of Google Glass in operating rooms.
While Google Glass is being touted as the next supercool personal device for the consumer market, a debate is growing over its potential use in the medical industry.
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Source: Articles from MedicalDesign.com - June 2, 2014 Category: Medical Equipment Tags: Products Electronics Surgery Source Type: news
DARPA-Funded Prosthetic Earns FDA Approval
Richard Gawel
The FDA has approved the DEKA Arm System. Supported by DARPA’s Revolutionizing Prosthetics program, the device allows for simultaneous control of multiple joints with adjustable grip strength.
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Source: Articles from MedicalDesign.com - May 27, 2014 Category: Medical Equipment Tags: Electronics Source Type: news
Managing Your Content in the Medical Device Marketplace
A new survey of life sciences and healthcare professionals highlights top data concerns of the medical device industry: proliferating formats, multiple channel delivery, and content inconsistencies. Each of these areas of concern can lead to potentially dangerous inaccuracies being distributed to the public.
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Source: Articles from MedicalDesign.com - May 23, 2014 Category: Medical Equipment Tags: Technologies mHealth Source Type: news
New OEM Pumps Showcased at MD&M East
Sarah Mangiola
Watson-Marlow will be displaying its new panel-mount OEM, DriveSure, at MD&M East, June 10-12 in New York.
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Source: Articles from MedicalDesign.com - May 23, 2014 Category: Medical Equipment Tags: Products Electronics Source Type: news
Prosthetics System Aims To Give Amputees Proprioception
Sarah Mangiola
HAPTIX, the latest system created by DARPA’s BTO, strives to bring back natural movement and sensation to amputees
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Source: Articles from MedicalDesign.com - May 23, 2014 Category: Medical Equipment Tags: Products Electronics Surgery Design-Engineering Source Type: news
Gold Nanoparticles Help Quantify Breast Cancer In Living Cells
Sarah Mangiola
Researchers have been able to identify breast cancer and determine its aggressiveness in a single cell with the use of gold nanoparticles, which promote the indication of expressed genes.
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Source: Articles from MedicalDesign.com - May 23, 2014 Category: Medical Equipment Tags: Design-Engineering News Source Type: news
Exploring Medtech Science on the Bleeding Edge
At Argonne National Laboratory, researchers like Dr. Chris Benmore delve into the mysteries of medical science, among other pursuits.
Argonne National Laboratory is a multilevel facility in Argonne, Ill., where “dream teams” of world-class researchers work alongside experts from industry, academia, and government laboratories to address vital national challenges. A portion of this is in medical technology. Dr. Chris J. Benmore, a physicist, is part of the X-Ray Science Division, Advanced Photon Source at Argonne.
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Source: Articles from MedicalDesign.com - May 22, 2014 Category: Medical Equipment Tags: Materials Design-Engineering Source Type: news
Medical Device Recalls: Prepare in Advance and Minimize Risk
Kevin Pollack, Stericycle
In today's complex, global business environment, it’s critical that medical device manufacturers minimize recall risks and set up a recall preparedness program to respond efficiently, quickly and at the lowest cost to both the financial bottom line and the company’s reputation.
Medical device manufacturers face particularly acute challenges during medical device recalls. From satisfying complex FDA regulatory requirements and other governing bodies’ compliance requirements, to coordinating seamless notification and response, product retrieval,...
Source: Articles from MedicalDesign.com - May 21, 2014 Category: Medical Equipment Tags: Materials Design-Engineering Source Type: news
For These Medical Devices, the Future Is Now
Bionic limbs, ingestible sensors, neurostimulation, and shrinking implantable devices are opening new potentials in medical technology. They also bring many challenges that will need to be met in the future.
Medical design innovations are moving into areas never before attempted. The following are just a few of a vast array of leading-edge technologies that address what the future of medical technology will bring.
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Source: Articles from MedicalDesign.com - May 20, 2014 Category: Medical Equipment Tags: Materials Electronics Design-Engineering Neurotechnology Implantables Source Type: news
PENTAX Launches Cross-Platform Software for Endoscopy Units
Sarah Mangiola
The endoPRO iQ 7.6 allows patients’ data to be easily retrieved and updated.
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Source: Articles from MedicalDesign.com - May 20, 2014 Category: Medical Equipment Tags: Business Electronics mHealth Source Type: news
Medical-Grade Power Supply Now Available
Sarah Mangiola
TRUMPower has a new power supply, TMPC-650U, which will perform even in a blackout or temporary power loss.
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Source: Articles from MedicalDesign.com - May 16, 2014 Category: Medical Equipment Tags: Products Electronics Source Type: news
Advances in Release Agents Make Rubber More Attractive to Manufacturers
George Barton, Chem-Trend
The perfect release agent is one that can both increase a manufacturer’s production efficiency and enable its compliance with standards regulations.
For hundreds of years, rubber has been permeating industrial manufacturing. Products formerly fabricated from natural material are now being made from common and inexpensive synthetic polymers. There are a number of reasons for this...
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Source: Articles from MedicalDesign.com - May 15, 2014 Category: Medical Equipment Tags: Materials Source Type: news
Surgical Plates Allow Anatomical Customization
Sarah Mangiola
DePuy Synthes CMF introduces its Patient Specific Plates for Mandible, which are surgical plates customized based on anatomy and surgeon specifications.
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Source: Articles from MedicalDesign.com - May 15, 2014 Category: Medical Equipment Tags: Surgery Design-Engineering News Source Type: news
