The battle for infection control is fought daily in wound management where the body's first line of defense against microbes has been breeched. Sometimes something old is made new again with a twist of new technology, as is the case in new infection-fighting wound care products that use shrimp shells, honey and silver as their key ingredients. The silver bullet
To help ease the hand fatigue experienced by many surgeons during electrosurgery procedures, MEGADYNE recently announced ...
MedWaves Inc. received FDA 510(k) clearance in January 2008 for its patented Microwave Coagulation/Ablation System for ...
Providing exceptional cardiovascular care for patients to achieve the best possible outcomes is the number one goal for ...
April 8, 2008 - OrbusNeich received CE Mark approval for the Sapphire 1.25-mm PTCA dilatation catheter, a small-diameter ...
April 8, 2008 - A study using Itamar Medical's Endo-PAT2000, an FDA-cleared device used to assess endothelial function ...
Itamar Medical's Endo-PAT2000 is an FDA-cleared device used to assess endothelial function.
Cardiac positron emission tomography (PET) is growing in popularity among cardiologists because it provides the ability ...
April 8, 2008 - Philips launched the latest addition to its HD ultrasound family of products, the Philips HD7, in the U ...
April 8, 2008 - Doctors at Boston Medical Center (BMC) led by Chief of Cardiac Surgery Robert Poston, M.D., have been ...
The Philips HD7 is a high-volume ultrasound system used in cardiovascular, OB/GYN, anesthesiology, oncology, electrophysiology, stress echo, pediatric, orthopedic, urologic, emergency and other applications.
When performing radiofrequency (RF) ablation to treat cardiac arrhythmia, medical professionals must balance the safety ...
April 8, 2008 - People who are taking three or more drugs and still have high blood pressure have a condition known as ...
April 8, 2008 - Atrial fibrillation demonstrated that a port access, paracardioscopic Ex-Maze procedure produced favorable outcomes and allowed patients to discontinue antiarrhythmic drugs, according to interim results from a study presented by Andy C. Kiser, M.D., at the American College of Cardiology meeting in Chicago, IL.
The Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 (DRA) has left its mark on hospitals and outpatient imaging center operators. There is no denying that the imaging industry has changed forever. Some may think that the 10 percent of operators on the brink of bankruptcy or in default on payments to finance vendors is a mere market correction for years of overgrowth. But do the math.
Change Healthcare Cardiology Hemodynamics is an integrated hemodynamic monitoring system for monitoring vital signs and ...
April 8, 2008 - The first-in-man study funded by MIV Therapeutics Inc. (MIV) showed that MIV's VESTAsync stents ...
MEDRAD Inc. won a Medical Design Excellence Award (MDEA) for the MEDRAD XDS Extravasation Detector, a device for the ...
April 8, 2008 - Battelle, a nonprofit independent research and development organization, and MEDRAD Inc. won a Medical ...