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E-Lens New!
If engineers can perfect a contact lens filed with electronics people will soon be able to use contact lenses to get readable displays of their environment. This augmented reality can include zoom, as well as health information such as body temperature, heart rate and other vital statistics. Professor Babak Parviz, from the University of Washington recently made a presentation at a ...
RE-MOTION™ New!
The RE-MOTION™ Total Wrist System is an anatomically designed implant. The prosthesis is composed of three primary articulating components: radial, carpal ball, and carpal plate. The radial component is designed as a surface replacement arthroplasty requiring minimal resection of the radius bone preserving the peripheral rim with its important ligamentous and soft tissue attachments ...
Raisin™ System New!
An ingestible sensor and personal physiologic monitor system. It basically allows doctors to see how patients react to medications. Via ingestion, any discrete event such as the ingestion of a specific pharmaceutical is able to be recorded along with physiological information such as heart rate, activity, body angle and patient-logged information. The unique ingestion event and per ...
MyFitnessPal New!
Founded in 2005 by brothers Michael and Albert Lee, San Francisco-based MyFitnessPal is a leading health and fitness community with easy-to-use tools for tracking nutritional intake and exercise levels. With more than 1 Million active users, MyFitnessPal members can access their full account, including the food and exercise databases, from any Android device, iPhone, iPod Touch or t ...
Defeat-HF
Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE: MDT) announced the global launch of the Defeat-HF (Determining the Feasibility of Spinal Cord Neuromodulation for the Treatment of Chronic Heart Failure) clinical trial. It is the industry’s first prospective, randomized study evaluating the clinical feasibility of spinal cord stimulation (SCS), or neurostimulation, to improve clinical signs and symptoms of he ...
Implantable Miniature Telescope
July 06, 2010 - VisionCare Ophthalmic Technologies, Inc. has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for their Implantable Miniature Telescope to improve vision in patients with end-stage age-related macular degeneration (AMD).
REX
"Rex", is an exoskeleton that basically allows paraplegics to walk again. Made of strong, lightweight materials that have been extensively tested, it's a world first product developed by Rex Bionics.
NuPhysicia
NuPhysicia exclusively operates telemedicine methods developed by the University of Texas Medical Branch, proven through serving hundreds of thousands of patients around the world.
Myobloc®
Myobloc® (rimabotulinumtoxinB) Injection and NeuroBloc®(Botulinum Toxin Type B) Injectable Solution are indicated for the treatment of adults with cervical dystonia to reduce the severity of abnormal head position and pain associated with cervical dystonia. MYOBLOC was the first drug approved in the US to reduce the severity of abnormal head position and the neck pain associated ...
de novo assembler
CLC bio has created a whole-genome de novo assembler that will assemble genomes of any size, including human on a single workstation computer. Previously the amount of RAM required has been an issue - requiring up to 300 GB of RAM for large genome assemblies. CLC bio’s de novo assembler can assemble the same datasets on a single workstation computer with only 48 GB of RAM. It ...
REOLYSIN®
CALGARY, AB, --- June 1, 2010 - Oncolytics Biotech Inc. (“Oncolytics”) (TSX:ONC, NASDAQ:ONCY) today announced that it has received approval from the Belgian Federal Agency for Medicines and Health Products (FAMHP) to conduct its Phase 3 trial examining REOLYSIN in combination with paclitaxel and carboplatin in patients with platinum-refractory head and neck cancers. This is the s ...
AWAK
AWAK (Automated Wearable Artificial Kidney) is currently a 6 pound battery-operated prototype designed to provide 24/7 continuous dialysis. However, through continuous developmental effort, AWAK is working towards a weight of merely 2 pounds. This technological breakthrough is based on an original joint research with the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and the Departmen ...
Mao Tooth
NEW YORK (May 19, 2010) - A technique pioneered in the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Laboratory of Dr. Jeremy Mao, the Edward V. Zegarelli Professor of Dental Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center, can orchestrate stem cells to migrate to a three-dimensional scaffold infused with growth factor, holding the translational potential to yield an anatomically corr ...
FT7 Men's Heart Rate Monitor Watch Featured
The FT7 checks your body's daily condition and guides you to a suitably intense workout, as people benefit from different workouts on different days. It measures your heart rate in beats per minute, then indicates whether you are exceeding or falling below your target zone. Another feature is the EnergyPointer, which tells you whether the main effect of your training is to improve y ...
Qnexa
Vivus has an obesity drug called Qnexa which also lowers blood pressure. The experimental weight loss drug that pairs a stimulant with an epilepsy drug helped patients lose weight and keep it off for a year. A consultant to Mountain View, California-based Vivus Inc said three separate studies showed patients lost more weight when they took the highest doses of Qnexa, which is up ...
Lorcaserin
Arena finished clinical testing of lorcaserin in 2009, and filed for Food and Drug Administration approval in December.
SynCardia Total Artifical Heart
On May 3 2010, Mayo Clinic Arizona became the first hospital in U.S. history to discharge a patient implanted with the SynCardia temporary Total Artificial Heart to wait at home for a matching donor heart. Mayo Clinic is participating in an FDA Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) clinical study of the Freedom™ driver, the first ever U.S. portable driver designed to power SynCardi ...
LensAR Laser System
On May 18 LensAR have announced 510(k) clearance from the FDA for use of the LensAR laser system in the U.S. to perform anterior capsulotomy during cataract surgery. The LensAR Laser System is a combination of a Femtosecond laser plus their own propriety scanning, measurement and beam delivery that is being designed to allow physicians to perform several of the steps in cataract ...
SPRIX™
SPRIX fills the need for a new non-opioid, non-injectable option for ambulatory pain control, because it minimizes the potential for abuse as well as the negative side effects associated with narcotic pain relievers while providing potent control of moderate to moderately severe pain at the opioid level. The convenient nasal spray formulation will also provide pain relief outside of ...
Provenge
Provenge is not really a vaccine since its designed for men who already have advanced prostate cancer. It's actually an immune therapy created by harvesting immune cells from the patient and then genetically engineering them to fight advanced prostate cancers by infusing them back into patients. Provenge was approved in the U.S. by the FDA in 2010. Although expensive at 50,000 t ...
