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ZOLL Medical Receives 2009 North American Healthcare Innovation Award From Frost & Sullivanemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
ZOLL Medical Corporation, a manufacturer of medical devices and related software solutions, announced today that it has received Frost & Sullivan's 2009 North American Healthcare Innovation Award. ZOLL was recognized by Frost & Sullivan as a global leader in defibrillation and resuscitation for its solutions that have revolutionized critical care and advanced the practice of resuscitation through pacing, defibrillation, circulation, data management, and fluid resuscitation (Source: Medical Design Online News)
Source: Medical Design Online News - November 17, 2009 Category: Medical Equipment Source Type: news

SafeStitch Medical, Inc. Receives FDA Clearance To Market The AMID Stapler For Hernia Repairsemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
SafeStitch Medical, Inc. announced today that it has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") to market its AMID StaplerTM in the U.S. with the intended use in general surgery procedures for fixation of mesh, in the repair of hernia defects and in other surgical specialties for the approximation of tissues, including skin (Source: Medical Design Online News)
Source: Medical Design Online News - November 17, 2009 Category: Medical Equipment Source Type: news

Ellipse Technologies, Inc. Receives CE Mark Clearance For The MAGEC System For The Treatment Of Spinal Scoliosisemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Ellipse Technologies, Inc. ("Ellipse") announced today it has received CE Mark (Conformité Européenne) for its MAGECTM Technology for the treatment of spinal deformity. The first application for this technology is for the treatment of spinal scoliosis in young children and teenagers (Source: Medical Design Online News)
Source: Medical Design Online News - November 17, 2009 Category: Medical Equipment Source Type: news

OmniComm's TrialMaster™ EDC Solution Selected By Leading Medical Device Manufacturer For Phase IV Cardiovascular Device Studyemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
OmniComm Systems, Inc. (OTCBB: OMCM), one of the fastest growing companies in the EDC marketplace, announced today that a leader in the medical device industry has selected OmniComm's TrialMaster EDC solution for the data capture of a Phase IV cardiovascular study. The 24-month, 7-site study will enroll 100 subjects (Source: Medical Design Online News)
Source: Medical Design Online News - November 17, 2009 Category: Medical Equipment Source Type: news

Misonix Announces New Distribution Agreement For Argentinaemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Misonix, Inc. (Nasdaq: MSON), a developer of minimally invasive ultrasonic medical device technology, which in Europe is used for the ablation of tumors and worldwide for other acute health conditions, has entered into a new, three year distribution agreement with Chirugia, S.A., based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, for the distribution of the SonaStar(TM) Ultrasonic Surgical Aspirator and the BoneScalpel(TM) Ultrasonic Bone Cutter (Source: Medical Design Online News)
Source: Medical Design Online News - November 17, 2009 Category: Medical Equipment Source Type: news

Medtronic-Sponsored Study Indicates Bi-Ventricular Pacing Superior To Right Ventricular Pacing In Avoiding Cardiac Enlargementemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Pacing the two lower chambers of the heart, or bi-ventricular pacing, prevented cardiac enlargement as compared to only pacing the right ventricle in pacemaker patients with normal pumping hearts, according to results presented today from the Pacing to Avoid Cardiac Enlargement (PACE) trial, a clinical study supported by Medtronic, Inc. (Source: Medical Design Online News)
Source: Medical Design Online News - November 15, 2009 Category: Medical Equipment Source Type: news

Texas Children's Hospital Achieves Pediatric Cardiology "First," Discharges Teen With Mechanical Heart Assist Deviceemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Texas Children's Hospital is the nation's first pediatric hospital to discharge a child while on an intracorporeal ventricular assist device (VAD), a feat previously accomplished only at adult institutions. The patient, 16-year-old Francisco "Frank" De Santiago, who was implanted with a mechanical heart pump called the HeartMate II on May 19, 2009, was discharged on Oct. 29, 2009 (Source: Medical Design Online News)
Source: Medical Design Online News - November 11, 2009 Category: Medical Equipment Source Type: news

PuriCore Announces Promising Clinical Results For Vashe Wound Therapy In Post-Operative Care Of Skin Grafts On Burnsemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
PuriCore, the life sciences company focused on developing and commercializing proprietary solutions that safely, effectively, and naturally kill infectious pathogens, today announced results of a randomized clinical trial showing the potential effectiveness of its Vashe Wound Therapy in the post-operative care of split-thickness skin grafts for burn injuries (Source: Medical Design Online News)
Source: Medical Design Online News - November 11, 2009 Category: Medical Equipment Source Type: news

Medical Acoustics Lung Flute Selected By Popular Science Magazine For 2009 BOWN Awardemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Medical Acoustics LLC, a commercial-stage medical device company which employs acoustic technologies for diagnostic and therapeutic medical applications, today announced that its FDA-cleared Lung Flute, a diagnostic and therapeutic respiratory medical device, was selected by Popular Science magazine for inclusion in the magazine's prestigious Best of What's New (BOWN) awards for 2009 (Source: Medical Design Online News)
Source: Medical Design Online News - November 10, 2009 Category: Medical Equipment Source Type: news

MiCardia DYANA Clinical Study Interim Results Highlighted At 23rd Annual Meeting Of The European Association For Cardio-Thoracic Surgeryemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
MiCardia Corporation today announced that a scientific presentation of the interim results of the Dynamic Annuloplasty Activation (DYANA) Clinical Study was presented by Professor Ottavio Alfieri at the 23rd Annual Meeting of the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery held in Vienna, Austria in October 2009 (Source: Medical Design Online News)
Source: Medical Design Online News - November 10, 2009 Category: Medical Equipment Source Type: news

IntriCon To Unveil New Cardiac Diagnostic Monitoring Device At 2009 American Heart Association Scientific Sessionsemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
IntriCon Corporation, a designer, developer, manufacturer and distributor of body-worn medical and electronics devices, announced today that it will unveil a prototype of its new Cardiac Diagnostic Monitoring (CDM) device, called the Mobile Patient ECG Telemetry System, or MPETS, at the 2009 American Heart Association (AHA) Scientific Sessions, Nov. 15-17, in Orlando, Fla (Source: Medical Design Online News)
Source: Medical Design Online News - November 10, 2009 Category: Medical Equipment Source Type: news

Anulex Technologies, Inc. Completes Patient Enrollment Phase Of Post Market Study And Announces The Treatment Of Over 6,000 Patients With The Xclose Tissue Repair Systememail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Anulex Technologies, Inc., a privately held medical device manufacturer focusing on spinal disc Preservation & Anular RepairTM products, announced the completion of the patient enrollment phase of its Xclose Tissue Repair System Post Market Clinical Study. 750 patients from 34 facilities around the U.S. were enrolled in the study. These patients will be followed for a two year period (Source: Medical Design Online News)
Source: Medical Design Online News - November 10, 2009 Category: Medical Equipment Source Type: news

Medtronic Launches Global Clinical Trial Evaluating Outcomes From Comprehensive Attain Family Of Left-Heart Leads And Delivery Cathetersemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Medtronic, Inc. today announced the first enrollment in the global Attain Success trial that will evaluate implant success, complication rates and procedure times in the market-released Attain Family of left-heart leads and delivery systems portfolio. Fifteen new Attain Family therapy delivery products were commercially released in the last two years, including 13 catheters and two Medtronic-exclusive left-heart leads - Attain StarFix and Attain Ability (Source: Medical Design Online News)
Source: Medical Design Online News - November 10, 2009 Category: Medical Equipment Source Type: news

Gore Receives European CE Mark Approval For Next Generation Conformable GORE TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesisemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
W.L. Gore & Associates (Gore) today announced that it has received European CE Mark approval for the next generation GORE TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis. The device is available in an expanded portfolio of sizes to meet a broad range of patient needs and was engineered to treat multiple etiologies including thoracic aortic aneurysms (TAAs), traumatic aortic transections and thoracic aortic dissections (Source: Medical Design Online News)
Source: Medical Design Online News - November 10, 2009 Category: Medical Equipment Source Type: news

Onset Medical Receives U.S. FDA Marketing Clearance For The SoloPath TransFemoral Endovascular Access Catheteremail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Onset Medical Corporation announced today the Company has received U.S. FDA 510(k) marketing clearance for the Company's SoloPathT TransFemoral Endovascular Access Catheter (Source: Medical Design Online News)
Source: Medical Design Online News - November 9, 2009 Category: Medical Equipment Source Type: news

Wright Medical Group, Inc. Receives FDA Approval To Market CONSERVE Plus Total Hip Resurfacing Systememail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Wright Medical Group, Inc., a global orthopaedic medical device company, announced today that the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given approval to the Company to market its original CONSERVE Plus Total Hip Resurfacing System (Source: Medical Design Online News)
Source: Medical Design Online News - November 9, 2009 Category: Medical Equipment Source Type: news

A&M Biomedical Inc. Receives ISO 13485 Certification From The National Standards Authority Of Irelandemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
A&M Biomedical, a contract medical device manufacturing company based in Laguna Hills, California, has received ISO 13485:2003 certification from the National Standards Authority of Ireland, Inc (NSAI). A&M is a contract manufacturer for medical device companies and the ISO 13485 certification showcases the company's ability to manufacture medical devices that consistently meet customer and regulatory requirements (Source: Medical Design Online News)
Source: Medical Design Online News - November 9, 2009 Category: Medical Equipment Source Type: news

QuantRx Debuts Flagship Diagnostic Reader Device (Q-Reader) At MEDICA 2009, The World's Leading Medical Trade Fairemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
QuantRx® Biomedical Corporation , a broad-based diagnostic company focused on the development and commercialization of innovative diagnostic products, recently announced that the Company will demonstrate its latest technology at MEDICA 2009, the world's leading medical trade fair, to be held November 18-21, 2009, in Düsseldorf, Germany (Source: Medical Design Online News)
Source: Medical Design Online News - November 6, 2009 Category: Medical Equipment Source Type: news

US Spine Announces Second Facet Patent Awarded, North American Spine Society Exhibitemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
US Spine has announced that it has been awarded patent number 7,608,094, the second in a series of patents for facet fixation. This patent provides protection to the company for its method of facet fixation using the Facet Gun and Facet Bolt. Additional patents covering other devices and methods are expected to follow (Source: Medical Design Online News)
Source: Medical Design Online News - November 5, 2009 Category: Medical Equipment Source Type: news

Colder Products Company Introduces New Fittings Product Lineemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Colder Products Company introduced more than 350 new fittings and luers at MD&M Minneapolis today. (Source: Medical Design Online News)
Source: Medical Design Online News - November 4, 2009 Category: Medical Equipment Source Type: news

FDA Awards Absorption Systems Phase II SBIR Grant For CellPort Technologiesemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Absorption Systems LP today announced that it has been awarded a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to continue development of the company's CellPort Technologies testing platform. This unique assay platform enables more specific prediction of potential drug-drug interactions mediated by human drug transport proteins (Source: Medical Design Online News)
Source: Medical Design Online News - November 3, 2009 Category: Medical Equipment Source Type: news

Calypso Medical Partners With Siemens Healthcare In Master Development Agreement To Provide Better Control Of Radiation Beam During Cancer Treatmentemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Calypso Medical Technologies, Inc., a developer of real-time localization technology used for the precise tracking of tumor targets, today announced that it has entered into a strategic development agreement with Siemens Healthcare to jointly develop products integrating the Calypso System with the Siemens ARTISTE linear accelerator and other Siemens radiotherapy technologies (Source: Medical Design Online News)
Source: Medical Design Online News - November 3, 2009 Category: Medical Equipment Source Type: news

First Device Designed To Preserve Blood Flow To Iliac Arteries During Aneurysm Repair Receives Approval From Health Canadaemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Canadian physicians can now treat patients suffering from life-threatening aneurysms in one of the body's largest arteries with an endovascular graft delivered during a minimally invasive procedure without blocking a critical artery (Source: Medical Design Online News)
Source: Medical Design Online News - November 3, 2009 Category: Medical Equipment Source Type: news

CardiacAssist Expands Market Penetration Of TandemHeart Extracorporeal Circulatory Support System Among Heart Surgeons, Cardiologists And Electrophysiologistsemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
CardiacAssist Inc. Privately held CardiacAssist Inc. announced today that the Cardiovascular Institute of Stanford (University) Hospital & Clinics (Palo Alto, Calif.) is one of the newest cardiac centers to begin using TandemHeart, the Company's FDA-cleared extracorporeal circulatory support system (Source: Medical Design Online News)
Source: Medical Design Online News - November 2, 2009 Category: Medical Equipment Source Type: news

Clear Catheter Systems Receives Major International Innovation Award For Its PleuraFlow Active Tube Clearance Systememail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Clear Catheter Systems, a private medical device company pioneering proprietary medical catheter anti-occlusion technologies, has been awarded the 2009 EACTS Techno-College Innovation Award for its PleuraFlow Active Tube Clearance System. The Techno-College Award is a worldwide competition to identify innovations with the potential to change the standard of care in heart and lung surgery (Source: Medical Design Online News)
Source: Medical Design Online News - November 2, 2009 Category: Medical Equipment Source Type: news

Merge Healthcare And MEDRAD Expand European Union Distribution Agreementemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Merge Healthcare, a health IT solutions leader, and MEDRAD, a leading provider of medical devices and services for diagnostic imaging, today announced an expansion of their European Union Distribution Agreement for CADstream, a dedicated CAD system for MRI (Source: Medical Design Online News)
Source: Medical Design Online News - October 30, 2009 Category: Medical Equipment Source Type: news

SpineWorks To Exhibit FixxSure Cross Link Technology At North American Spine Society Meetingemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
SpineWorks, a medical device company focused on developing technologies to help treat those with complex spine conditions, announced today that it will exhibit its FixxSure Cross Link at this year's North American Spine Society Meeting in San Francisco, California next month. It will be the first time the FixxSure technology will have been displayed at a major show (Source: Medical Design Online News)
Source: Medical Design Online News - October 29, 2009 Category: Medical Equipment Source Type: news

Ascent Healthcare Solutions Receives 510(K) Clearance To Reprocess Biosense Webster SoundStar 3D Diagnostic Ultrasound Catheteremail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Ascent Healthcare Solutions, a leader in delivering healthcare resource sustainability, today announced that it has received the industry's first and only 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to reprocess the Biosense Webster SoundStar 3D Diagnostic Ultrasound Catheter. With this new clearance, Ascent continues to lead the charge in bringing sustainability to healthcare (Source: Medical Design Online News)
Source: Medical Design Online News - October 28, 2009 Category: Medical Equipment Source Type: news

Toshiba Introduces The Infinix VF-i/BP Vascular X-Ray System With Large And Mid-Sized Flat Panel Detectorsemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Increasing the flexibility and diagnostic capabilities in bi-plane vascular X-ray imaging, Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc. introduces the all new Infinix VF-i/BP with large and mid-sized flat panel detectors. The large and mid-sized flat panel detectors provide clinicians with the ability to obtain critical variations in angle combinations while providing the necessary anatomical coverage, creating the optimal universal bi-plane vascular X-ray system for any clinical application (Source: Medical Design Online News)
Source: Medical Design Online News - October 28, 2009 Category: Medical Equipment Source Type: news

FDA Clears Interlace Medical's MyoSure Hysteroscopic Tissue Removal System For The Treatment Of Submucosal Fibroidsemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Interlace Medical, Inc., today announced that it has received 510K clearance from the U. S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market the MyoSure Hysteroscopic Tissue Removal System for the removal of submucosal fibroids and polyps (Source: Medical Design Online News)
Source: Medical Design Online News - October 28, 2009 Category: Medical Equipment Source Type: news

Melody Transcatheter Valve Demonstrates Encouraging Results In Study On Patients With Congenital Heart Diseaseemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Clinical trial results published in this week's Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC) describe six-month outcomes for patients using the Melody Transcatheter Pulmonary Valve from Medtronic, Inc. The valve is implanted through a catheter procedure instead of open-heart surgery in patients with congenital heart disease affecting the function of their pulmonary valve (Source: Medical Design Online News)
Source: Medical Design Online News - October 27, 2009 Category: Medical Equipment Source Type: news

Onset Medical Performs First Human Use Of The SoloPath Endovascular Access Catheter To Deliver Percutaneous Aortic Heart Valveemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Onset Medical Corporation announced today the first human usage of its SoloPath Endovascular Access Catheter in a case performed by Eberhard Grube MD, Chief, Department of Cardiology/Angiology, Helios Heart Center, Siegburg in Germany (Source: Medical Design Online News)
Source: Medical Design Online News - October 27, 2009 Category: Medical Equipment Source Type: news

OrSense Presents Non-Invasive Hemoglobin Screening Device For Use In Blood Collection Centersemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
OrSense Ltd., developer of monitors for non-invasivemeasurements of various blood parameters, announced today at the American Association of Blood Banks (AABB) Annual Meeting & TXPO, at New Orleans, the presentation of NBM-200, a non-invasive hemoglobin (Hb) measurement system for anemia screening in blood donation centers (Source: Medical Design Online News)
Source: Medical Design Online News - October 27, 2009 Category: Medical Equipment Source Type: news

Bioconnect Systems To Present First In Man Results For Optiflow Vascular Implantemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Bioconnect Systems, Inc. announced today that data from the Company's first clinical study will be presented this week at the ASN Meeting in San Diego. Bioconnect's implant platform, the Optiflow, enhances a surgeon's ability to create precise vascular connections (Source: Medical Design Online News)
Source: Medical Design Online News - October 27, 2009 Category: Medical Equipment Source Type: news

Cook Medical Unveils FluoroSet To Aid Diagnosis Of Tubal Occlusionemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Approximately one million women in the United States are rendered infertile by disease in the fallopian tubes, the most common being tubal occlusion or blockage1. This condition is commonly diagnosed using a complicated, invasive fluoroscopic evaluation, consisting of real-time, action images of the fallopian tubes to identify possible occlusions (Source: Medical Design Online News)
Source: Medical Design Online News - October 26, 2009 Category: Medical Equipment Source Type: news

Community Hospital Of The Monterey Peninsula First Breast Center In California To Initiate U-Systems SOMO·INSIGHT Studyemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
U-Systems announced today that Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula's Breast Care Center has initiated participation in the SOMO·INSIGHT Clinical Study. The first breast center in California to participate, Community Hospital is recruiting participants for the national clinical study designed to evaluate whether digital mammography in combination with the somo.v Automated Breast Ultrasound System (ABUS) from U-Systems is more sensitive to detecting breast lesions when compared to mammography alone in women with dense breasts (Source: Medical Design Online News)
Source: Medical Design Online News - October 26, 2009 Category: Medical Equipment Source Type: news

Cappella, Inc. Expands Product Line & Commercial Operationsemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Cappella , Inc. (Cappella), a medical device company developing dynamic solutions for the treatment of coronary bifurcation disease, announces that an additional diameter has been added to the Sideguard platform. The current portfolio of Sideguard 2.5 and Sideguard 2.75 are now complemented with Sideguard 3.25 (Source: Medical Design Online News)
Source: Medical Design Online News - October 26, 2009 Category: Medical Equipment Source Type: news

ThumBlade System - The New Standard In Safety Scalpels From PMD Inc.email this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Responding to user demands and government safety requirements Precision Medical Devices Inc. (PMD) has introduced a revolutionary new safety scalpel blade and handle system: the ThumBlade safety scalpel system. Featuring patent pending innovative thumb activation independent mechanisms, PMD's ThumBlade safety scalpels enable one-handed activation smoothly and safely by right or left handed practitioners with no contact with the exposed blade. (Source: Medical Design Online News)
Source: Medical Design Online News - October 23, 2009 Category: Medical Equipment Source Type: news

Invatec Receives FDA Clearance For Mo.Ma Ultra Proximal Cerebral Protection Deviceemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Invatec, a comprehensive innovator of interventional products, today announced that it has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market its Mo.Ma Ultra Proximal Cerebral Protection Device for use during carotid artery stenting (CAS). The device effectively reduces and captures debris released during the stenting procedure to prevent it from traveling to the brain, where it has the potential to cause a stroke (Source: Medical Design Online News)
Source: Medical Design Online News - October 23, 2009 Category: Medical Equipment Source Type: news

US Spine Launches Javelin MIS Locking Facet Systememail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
US Spine announced today that it has launched its Javelin MIS Locking Facet System, designed to stabilize the lumbar spine by locking the facet joints through a minimally invasive incision. This technology enables surgeons to fixate the facet joints without needing to perform an open procedure that usually requires larger, more invasive implants, such as pedicle screws and rods (Source: Medical Design Online News)
Source: Medical Design Online News - October 22, 2009 Category: Medical Equipment Source Type: news

New Adhesive Pairs Well With LED Lamp For Ultra-Fast Medical Device Assemblyemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
The new DYMAX 1020-M Ultra Light-Weld is an ultra-fast, tack-free, LED-curable adhesive. It's designed for rapid bonding of a wide variety of plastics typically used in the manufacture of medical devices such as reservoirs, tube sets, port fittings, drug delivery systems, and heat-sensitive applications (Source: Medical Design Online News)
Source: Medical Design Online News - October 22, 2009 Category: Medical Equipment Source Type: news

St. Jude Medical Announces European CE Mark Approval And First Implant Of Industry's First Quadripolar Pacing Systememail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
St. Jude Medical, Inc. today announced it has received European CE Mark approval for the industry's first quadripolar pacing system for cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillators (CRT-Ds). The quadripolar system offers physicians the ability to more effectively and efficiently manage the ever-changing pacing needs of patients with heart failure (Source: Medical Design Online News)
Source: Medical Design Online News - October 20, 2009 Category: Medical Equipment Source Type: news

Gore Announces First Implant Of Next Generation Conformable GORE TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis In US Clinical Trial For The Treatment Of Thoracic Aortic Aneurysmsemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
W. L. Gore & Associates (Gore) today announced the first human implants of the next generation Conformable GORE TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis for the treatment of thoracic aortic aneurysms (TAAs). The first implants were performed by Joshua Rovin, MD and Eugene Murphy, MD, at Bayfront Medical Center and William McMillan, MD and Scott Schultz, MD, at North Memorial Medical Center (Source: Medical Design Online News)
Source: Medical Design Online News - October 20, 2009 Category: Medical Equipment Source Type: news

On-X Life Technologies Completes Enrollment In High-Risk Patient Group Of Low-Anticoagulation Trialemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Austin-based On-X Life Technologies, Inc., manufacturers of the On-X Prosthetic Heart Valve and On-X carbon products for orthopedic implants, announced today that enrollment in the High-Risk Patient Group of the landmark PROACT (Prospective Randomized On-X Anticoagulation Clinical Trial) is complete (Source: Medical Design Online News)
Source: Medical Design Online News - October 20, 2009 Category: Medical Equipment Source Type: news

Circle Medical Devices, Texcel Medical Merge To Form CIRTEC Medical Systemsemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Circle Medical Devices of Los Gatos, Calif., and Texcel Medical of Springfield, Mass., have merged to create CIRTEC Medical Systems, a leading provider of comprehensive medical product design and manufacturing solutions. (Source: Medical Design Online News)
Source: Medical Design Online News - October 19, 2009 Category: Medical Equipment Source Type: news

Covidien Announces Global Launch Of Mallinckrodt TaperGuard Line Of Endotracheal Tubesemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Covidien, a leading global healthcare products company and recognized innovator in mechanical ventilation and respiratory care devices, today announced the global launch of Mallinckrodt TaperGuard and TaperGuard Evac endotracheal tubes (Source: Medical Design Online News)
Source: Medical Design Online News - October 19, 2009 Category: Medical Equipment Source Type: news

Surface Dissolution Imaging Gives Insight Into Bioavailabilityemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Paraytec has announced that it will be demonstrating an exciting new tool for surface dissolution imaging - the ActiPix SDI300 at the 2009 American Association for Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) meeting in Los Angeles, CA. (Source: Medical Design Online News)
Source: Medical Design Online News - October 18, 2009 Category: Medical Equipment Source Type: news

Wright Medical Group, Inc. Launches DYNASTY BIOFOAM Acetabular Cup Systememail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Wright Medical Group, Inc., a global orthopaedic medical device company, today announced the launch of the DYNASTY BIOFOAM Acetabular Cup System. This latest addition to the DYNASTY system features proprietary bone-like titanium with a roughened texture that "bites" into bone for enhanced immediate fixation when compared to traditional porous beads (Source: Medical Design Online News)
Source: Medical Design Online News - October 15, 2009 Category: Medical Equipment Source Type: news

Spinal Stretch - The World's Most Portable, Effective, Low-Cost Personal Back Pain Device - Is Now Availableemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Spinal Stretch is a patented new device which relieves low back pain while offering aquantum leap in convenience, comfort and cost over existing back-pain therapies (Source: Medical Design Online News)
Source: Medical Design Online News - October 15, 2009 Category: Medical Equipment Source Type: news

SynCardia's Companion Driver System Receives CE Mark To Power Total Artificial Heart In Europeemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
On Oct. 15, SynCardia Systems, Inc., manufacturer of the SynCardia temporary CardioWest Total Artificial Heart, announced that its new Companion Driver System has received CE Mark approval to power the Total Artificial Heart in Europe (Source: Medical Design Online News)
Source: Medical Design Online News - October 15, 2009 Category: Medical Equipment Source Type: news