Medical Technology News

PALO ALTO, Calif.—-High demand for dependable and flexible equipment from the medical device market encourages manufacturers of surface mount technology equipment to develop highly advanced machines.
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Rosetta Genomics, Ltd. announces today that the first molecular pop quiz based on Rosetta Genomics’ proprietary microRNA technology, developed and validated by Columbia University Medical Center , has been approved for clinical use by the New York State office of Health Clinical Laboratory Evaluation Program.
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VisEn Medical, a leading developer of fluorescence-based agents and system solutions that enable non-invasive in vivo imaging, has received $3.5 million in venture debt financing from GE Healthcare Financial Services. VisEn will use the credit facility to support its working capital needs and expanding commercialization efforts worldwide.
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China data shield Technology, Inc., , a leading provider of knowledge defense and 3S services in China, today announced that the Company has been awarded a contract to construct the Shenzhen City 120 Emergency Medical Service GIS Command and Coordination System , with a total contract value of $1.5 million.
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Gilbert A. Leveille, PhD, executive director of the Wrigley Science Institute (WSI) has been selected as the 2008 recipient of the prestigious Institute of Food Technologists’ Nicholas Appert Award, one of the highest honors in food science and technology. Dr.
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Pacific Northwest U.S. regulators have approved Pathway Medical Technology’s first commercial product, a medical device that unclogs leg…
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Bumrungrad universal has been named as a recipient of the 2008 AMDIS Award, recognizing excellence and outstanding achievement in applied medical informatics. It is the only hospital outside the U
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Advances in technology have significantly influenced the detection of adverse medical conditions and their treatments. But technology, specifically the use of computers and their associated programs to manage electronic health records, still has a distant way to go in many instances. Advocates maintain that developing and maintaining computerized medical records for individual patients will improve [...]

U.S. medical students are big users of electronic technology, but many are skeptical about its chances of quick adoption in the health care realm, according to a recent survey.
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CARMEL, Ind.—-OBS Medical announced today that it has been awarded $2M from the Indiana 21st Century Research and Technology Fund. The company plans to use the Fund to accelerate development of its BioQTTM technology, an exciting innovation for pharmaceutical cardiac safety.
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A medical helicopter service is getting new technology designed to ensure patients and the crew get ‘to’ and ‘from’ their destinations .. safely. Southeast Texas Air Rescue is buying night vision equipment.
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The medical device gains with the expanding population.
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Electronic Sensor Technology (EST) (OTCBB:ESNR), a leading provider of innovative homeland defense and environmental solutions, announced that it has successfully demonstrated and sold a unit for use in measuring the smells from rubber and plastic parts used in medical equipment.
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New imaging software that will allow physicians to more accurately diagnose and treat heart failure patients has been licensed by Emory University to Syntermed, an Atlanta-based nuclear medicine imaging and informatics software company. The software uses multiharmonic phase analysis (MHPA), a technology developed by Emory medical scientists Ernest Garcia, PhD, and Jing Chen, PhD.
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Micro-induction coils are equipped with RF signal transmission as well as signal and potential induction capabilities, eliminating potential harmful effects to human body posed by battery-operated implantable medical devices. Custom-fabricated to strange requirements, single- and multiple-layer products offer flexibility in terms of process technology, substrate material, size, induction and …
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MINNEAPOLIS—-Tactile Systems Technology, which develops, manufactures and markets products to treat vascular disorders such as lymphedema, announced the formation of its first Medical Advisory Board.
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NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (WIVB) – Doctors at Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center are praising new technology as a real life-saver.
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ZOLL Medical Corporation (NasdaqGS: ZOLL), a manufacturer of resuscitation devices and related software solutions, today announced that A. Ernest Whiton, its Chief Financial Officer, will speak at 3:00 p.m. on Thursday, June 12, 2008 in New York City, at the Seventh Annual Needham and Company Biotechnology and Medical Technology Conference being held at The New [...]

CHELMSFORD, Mass.—-ZOLL Medical Corporation , a manufacturer of resuscitation devices and related software solutions, today announced that A. Ernest Whiton, its Chief Financial Officer, will speak at 3:00 p.m. on Thursday, June 12, 2008 in New York City, at the Seventh Annual Needham and Company Biotechnology and Medical Technology Conference being held at The [...]

Gen-Probe Incorporated announced today that the Company will present at the seventh annual Needham & Company, LLC, Biotechnology and Medical Technology Conference on Wednesday, June 11, 2008 at approximately 11 a.m.
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