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MassDevice.com +3 | The top 3 medtech stories for August 10, 2015
Say hello to MassDevice +3, a bite-sized view of the top three medtech stories of the day. This feature of MassDevice.com’s coverage highlights our 3 biggest and most influential stories from the day’s news to make sure you’re up to date on the headlines that continue to shape the medical device industry.
3. NDC closes Interface Catheter buy, rebrands as Confluent
Nitinol Devices & Components said it closed its acquisition of Interface Catheter Solutions and announced it will rebrand the new combined company as Confluent Medical Technologies.
Confluent Medical will leverage both NDC and Interf...
Source: Mass Device - August 10, 2015 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: MassDevice Tags: Blog Plus 3 Source Type: news
Stryker Betting On MAKO And Anti-Stroke Devices, Planning More Acquisitions To Drive Growth
Stryker considers its MAKO robotic surgery system and its clot removal devices as growth accelerators for the company through 2016. The artificial knee and hip implants maker is also cautiously eyeing more M&A targets after it recently acquired a number of assets.
Source: Medical Design Online News - April 23, 2015 Category: Medical Equipment Source Type: news
Boston Scientific's Watchman stroke prevention device approved after 4 years
Boston Scientific's Watchman device, an alternative to blood thinners for stroke prevention, has earned approval in the U.S. four years after the medical device giant bought the product in its $375 million acquisition of Atritech.
The Watchman Left Atrial Appendage Closure Device has been called one of "the two most meaningful pipeline products (along with the Synergy stent) expected to launch over the next few years" by Leerink Partners analyst Danielle Antalffy.
Mike Mahoney, the CEO of Marlborough,…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines - March 15, 2015 Category: Hospital Management Authors: Don Seiffert Source Type: news
A Fast Parallel Solver for the Forward Problem in Electrical Impedance Tomography
Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) is a noninvasive imaging modality, where imperceptible currents are applied to the skin and the resulting surface voltages are measured. It has the potential to distinguish between ischaemic and haemorrhagic stroke with a portable and inexpensive device. The image reconstruction relies on an accurate forward model of the experimental setup. Because of the relatively small signal in stroke EIT, the finite-element modeling requires meshes of more than 10 million elements. To study the requirements in the forward modeling in EIT and also to reduce the time for experimental image acquisiti...
Source: IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering - December 19, 2014 Category: Biomedical Engineering Source Type: research
How a Small Tribe Turned Tragedy into Opportunity
An Irula couple fishes in the creeks of the Pichavaram Mangrove Forest in Tamil Nadu. Credit: Malini Shankar/IPSBy Malini ShankarPICHAVARAM, India, Nov 13 2014 (IPS)When the Asian tsunami washed over several Indian Ocean Rim countries on Boxing Day 2004, it left a trail of destruction in its wake, including a death toll that touched 230,000.Millions lost their jobs, food security and traditional livelihoods and many have spent the last decade trying to pick up the pieces of their lives. But for a small tribe in southern India, the tsunami didn’t bring devastation; instead, it brought hope.Numbering some 25,000 people, th...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - November 13, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Malini Shankar Tags: Aid Asia-Pacific Biodiversity Civil Society Development & Aid Economy & Trade Editors' Choice Education Environment Featured Food & Agriculture Global Governance Headlines Health Human Rights Indigenous Rights Labour Natu Source Type: news
Telerehabilitation and emerging virtual reality approaches to stroke rehabilitation
Purpose of review: Stroke is the leading cause of permanent motor disability in the United States, and the rapidly aging population makes finding large-scale treatment solutions to this problem a national priority. Telerehabilitation is an emerging approach that is being used for the effective treatment of multiple diseases, and is beginning to show promise for stroke. The purpose of this review is to identify and highlight the areas of telerehabilitation that require the most research attention.
Recent findings: Although there are many different forms of telerehabilitation approaches being attempted for stroke, the only a...
Source: Current Opinion in Neurology - November 7, 2014 Category: Neurology Tags: TRAUMA AND REHABILITATION: Edited by S. Thomas Carmichael Source Type: research
Low-flow vascular malformation: Contribution of sequential postcontrast MRI acquisitions
A 50-year-old man was referred for subacute intracranial hypertension. MRI revealed a well-circumscribed lesion in the posterior fossa that was hypointense on T1-weighted imaging and hyperintense on T2-weighted imaging (figure 1, A and E). Cerebral blood volume map and sequential postcontrast T1-weighted images showed progressive increase in the homogeneity of the contrast enhancement, indicating that the lesion had low but substantial flow (figure 1, B–D). Digital subtraction angiography showed a vascular lesion with a central to peripheral pattern of vascularity and absence of early venous return (figure 1, F&ndash...
Source: Neurology - June 30, 2014 Category: Neurology Authors: Heck, O., Krainik, A., Boubagra, K., Tahon, F., Attye, A., Le Bas, J. F., Boutonnat, J., Grand, S. Tags: MRI, Other cerebrovascular disease/ Stroke NEUROIMAGES Source Type: research
Medtronic acquires Covidien in a $43 billion deal | Medtech Wall Street news for the week of June 16, 2014
Here's a look at some of the top Wall Street stories for medical device companies this week: Blockbuster: Medtronic in $43B deal to acquire Covidien; Medtronic buyout holds $80M in golden parachutes for Covidien execs; FDA wants another panel hearing on Boston Scientific's Watchman anti-stroke device; European Commission tables review of Zimmer's $13B acquisition of Biomet; Ackman takes Allergan to court to defend against poison pill
Blockbuster: Medtronic in $43B deal to acquire Covidien
June 16, 2014 by Brad Perriello
Zimmer Holdings, Biomet, Boston Scientific, Covidien, European Commission, Food & Drug ...
Source: Mass Device - June 19, 2014 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: MassDevice Source Type: news
A Post-Stroke Rehabilitation System Integrating Robotics, VR and High-Resolution EEG Imaging
We propose a system for the neuro-motor rehabilitation of upper limbs in stroke survivors. The system is composed of a passive robotic device (Trackhold) for kinematic tracking and gravity compensation, five dedicated virtual reality (VR) applications for training of distinct movement patterns, and high-resolution EEG for synchronous monitoring of cortical activity. In contrast to active devices, the Trackhold omits actuators for increased patient safety and acceptance levels, and for reduced complexity and costs. VR applications present all relevant information for task execution as easy-to-understand graphics that do not...
Source: IEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering - September 1, 2013 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research
Position Paper Neuroimaging standards for research into small vessel disease and its contribution to ageing and neurodegeneration
Cerebral small vessel disease (SVD) is a common accompaniment of ageing. Features seen on neuroimaging include recent small subcortical infarcts, lacunes, white matter hyperintensities, perivascular spaces, microbleeds, and brain atrophy. SVD can present as a stroke or cognitive decline, or can have few or no symptoms. SVD frequently coexists with neurodegenerative disease, and can exacerbate cognitive deficits, physical disabilities, and other symptoms of neurodegeneration. Terminology and definitions for imaging the features of SVD vary widely, which is also true for protocols for image acquisition and image analysis.
Source: Lancet Neurology - July 17, 2013 Category: Neurology Authors: Joanna M Wardlaw, Eric E Smith, Geert J Biessels, Charlotte Cordonnier, Franz Fazekas, Richard Frayne, Richard I Lindley, John T O'Brien, Frederik Barkhof, Oscar R Benavente, Sandra E Black, Carol Brayne, Monique Breteler, Hugues Chabriat, Charles DeCarli Tags: Position Paper Source Type: research
Dynamic Iterative Reconstruction for Interventional 4-D C-Arm CT Perfusion Imaging
We present a dynamic, iterative reconstruction (DIR) approach to reconstruct TACs described by a weighted sum of basis functions. To reduce noise, a regularization technique based on joint bilateral filtering (JBF) is introduced. We evaluated the algorithm with a digital dynamic brain phantom and with data from six canine stroke models. With our dynamic approach, we achieve an average Pearson correlation (PC) of the PCCT canine blood flow maps to co-registered perfusion CT maps of 0.73. This PC is just as high as the PC achieved in a recent PCCT study, which required repeated injections and acquisitions.
Source: IEE Transactions on Medical Imaging - June 28, 2013 Category: Biomedical Engineering Source Type: research
Storage of a naturally acquired conditioned response is impaired in patients with cerebellar degeneration
Previous findings suggested that the human cerebellum is involved in the acquisition but not the long-term storage of motor associations. The finding of preserved retention in cerebellar patients was fundamentally different from animal studies which show that both acquisition and retention depends on the integrity of the cerebellum. The present study investigated whether retention had been preserved because critical regions of the cerebellum were spared. Visual threat eye-blink responses, that is, the anticipatory closure of the eyes to visual threats, have previously been found to be naturally acquired conditioned respons...
Source: Brain - June 25, 2013 Category: Neurology Authors: Thieme, A., Thurling, M., Galuba, J., Burciu, R. G., Goricke, S., Beck, A., Aurich, V., Wondzinski, E., Siebler, M., Gerwig, M., Bracha, V., Timmann, D. Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
With a broken promise, the government has handed the NHS over to the market | Clive Peedell
Reassurances on clinicians and local people controlling how services are commissioned look likely to be overturnedThe NHS needs to be reformed to remain true to its founding principles; the question is how. International evidence suggests that increasing marketisation and privatisation of healthcare services leads to greater expenditure, greater variations in care, reduced access to services, and erosion of professional standards. On that basis, the reforms have been heading in the wrong direction for a long time, with all the major political parties supporting policies that increase the role of the private sector in the N...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - March 3, 2013 Category: Science Authors: Clive Peedell Tags: Comment The Guardian Society Politics Privatisation NHS Andrew Lansley Comment is free Source Type: news
