Pfizer Taps IBM For Research Collaboration To Transform Parkinson's Disease Care
Pfizer Inc. (NYSE:PFE) and IBM (NYSE:IBM) today announced a first-of-its-kind research collaboration to develop innovative remote monitoring solutions aimed at transforming how clinicians deliver care to patients suffering from Parkinson’s disease. The experimental approach will rely on a system of sensors, mobile devices, and machine learning to provide real-time, around-the-clock disease symptom information to clinicians and researchers. The ultimate goal is to obtain a better understanding of a patient’s disease progression and medication response (Source: Medical Design Online News)
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Will Funding Woes Doom The Next Generation Of Medtech Innovators?
With two full years of information now available since the Affordable Care Act’s passage, a disconcerting pattern has emerged affecting small companies and startups — the primary sources of new innovation, and the life blood of medtech. Will industry and market disruption created by the ACA lead to unintended, long-term restrictions for medtech innovation? (Source: Medical Design Online News)
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FDA Creates Combination Products Policy Council
The U.S. Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) announced the creation of a new body which will coordinate reviews and tackle issues surrounding combination products, which are products consisting of any combination of a medical device and/or a drug and/or a biologic. (Source: Medical Design Online News)
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Medtronic's Micra, Word's Smallest Pacemaker, Approved by FDA
With approval from the FDA, Medtronic is prepared to launch its Micra Transcatheter Pacing System (TPS), the first leadless pacemaker to be marketed in the U.S. Because the Micra is delivered through a catheter and fixed to the heart muscle without the traditional wiring, developers believe it will reduce complications commonly associated with pacemakers, and is the beginning of a major paradigm shift in the cardiac device industry. (Source: Medical Design Online News)
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Smaller And Smarter: Fischer Connectors Expands Its Robust Fiberoptic Series With A New Single Fiber Optic Connectivity Solution
Fischer Connectors recently launched its new single fiber optic connector (FO1) within its Fischer FiberOptic Series. This miniature, lightweight, rugged connectivity solution is easy to use and ensures premium performance even in harsh environments. (Source: Medical Design Online News)
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Medtronic Announces Early Data And Completes Enrollment In CE Mark Cohort In Drug-Filled Stent Trial
Medtronic plc announced new clinical data today from one of the endpoints in the RevElution Trial for its novel, next-generation Drug-Filled Stent (DFS). These new data showed rapid vessel healing without inflammation in Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) data of the complete one-month follow-up patient cohort. The results were unveiled at the 65th Annual Scientific Session of the American College of Cardiology (ACC) on the heels of completing enrollment in the 50-patient cohort of the RevElution Trial, which will be used to support CE (Conformité Européenne) Mark. (Source: Medical Design Online News)
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Medtronic Downplays New Inversion Deal Restrictions
Medtronic says it will not be impacted by the latest temporary rules and restrictions imposed by the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) against so-called inversion deals performed by medtech and healthcare companies to ease their U.S. tax burden. (Source: Medical Design Online News)
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Mice With 3D-Printed Ovaries Give Birth To Live Young
Mice implanted with 3D-printed prosthetic ovaries have successfully given birth to live young, said scientists from Northwestern University. According to the researchers, the process is scalable for humans and could one day restore fertility to cancer survivors and women born with reduced ovarian function. (Source: Medical Design Online News)
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St. Jude Medical Announces MHLW Approvals Of The Proclaim Elite MRI, A Patient-Centric And Recharge-Free Chronic Pain Treatment Option And New SCS Trial System - The Industry's First SCS Systems To Incorporate Apple Digital Devices enabling Japanese inter
St. Jude Medical Japan Co., Ltd., a medical device company, recently announced approval from the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) of the new recharge-free Proclaim Elite MRI Spinal Cord Stimulation System for patients suffering from chronic pain in Japan. (Source: Medical Design Online News)
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ivWatch, LLC Announces Availability Of A New Medical Device To Continuously Monitor IVs
Medical device manufacturer ivWatch, LLC today announced United Statesavailability of the ivWatch Model 400, a device that continuously monitors a patient's IV for the early detection of infiltrations – when medication or fluid leaks outside the vein into the surrounding tissue. (Source: Medical Design Online News)
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FDA-Convened Planning Board Proposes Coordinating Center For New Device Evaluation System
The national medical device evaluation system (NMDES) planning board, convened by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), unveiled details on such a system and proposes a coordinating center that will work with multiple industry stakeholders to improve the generation and gathering of evidence on the safety and effectiveness of medical devices. (Source: Medical Design Online News)
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Abbott's Troponin Test Measures Effect Of Mental Stress On Heart
Research of the protein troponin has been used to develop tests that can diagnose or rule out heart attacks, and now scientists are using that technology to shed new light on the progression of coronary artery disease (CAD). A recent study of Abbott’s Architect STAT High Sensitive Troponin-I test examines the impact of different kinds of stress on cardiac health, with hopes of developing new preventative approaches to heart disease. (Source: Medical Design Online News)
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Proteus Digital Health Presents Interim Results At ACC From A Randomized Controlled Clinical Study Of Proteus Discover
Proteus Digital Health presented interim results from a randomized controlled study of Proteus Discover for patients with uncontrolled hypertension and type 2 diabetes at the 65th Annual American College of Cardiology meeting. (Source: Medical Design Online News)
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Sterigenics International Has Acquired Nelson Laboratories – Acquisition Creates Largest Fully Integrated Global Sterilization And Lab Services Operation
Sterigenics International LLC, the leading global provider of contract sterilization, gamma technologies and medical isotopes, and a portfolio company of Warburg Pincus and GTCR, recently announced that it has acquired Nelson Laboratories, Inc., the largest U.S. provider of life-cycle microbiology testing services for the medical devices, pharmaceutical and tissue industries. (Source: Medical Design Online News)
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