News tagged with medical device

Distracted doctoring - is it really a concern?

Q: Facebook? Twitter? Gmail? A: None of the above.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers devise new means for creating elastic conductors

Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new method for creating elastic conductors made of carbon nanotubes, which will contribute to large-scale production of the material for use ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

German firm denies wrongdoing in breast implant scandal

German chemicals distributor Brenntag denied Friday any wrongdoing in the health scandal surrounding French-made breast implants.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jan 13, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Consumer group questions review of breast implants

(AP) -- Consumer safety advocates are questioning the Food and Drug Administration about seemingly incomplete and erroneous data used to affirm the safety of silicone breast implants last year.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jan 05, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

FDA orders safety studies of women's surgical mesh

(AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration is ordering medical device manufacturers to study safety complications with surgical mesh widely used to repair women's pelvic problems.

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Jan 04, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New hip implants no better than traditional implants

New hip implants appear to have no advantage over traditional implants, suggests a review of the evidence published in the British Medical Journal today.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 30, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Radioactive iodine: Now France detects traces in atmosphere

France's nuclear watchdog on Tuesday said it had detected traces of radioactive iodine in the air last week after similarly low contamination was reported by the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia and Austria.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Redefining 'clean'

Aiming to take "clean" to a whole new level, researchers at the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Maryland at College Park have teamed up to study how low-temperature plasmas can deactivate potentially ...

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Oct 31, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study evaluates industry payments to orthopedic surgeons

An analysis of financial payments made by orthopedic device manufacturers to orthopedic surgeons shows that the patterns of payments from 2007 to 2010 appear to be complex with a reduction in the total number of payments ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Oct 24, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

One size does not fit all for knee replacements and other medical devices

Undergoing a knee replacement involves sophisticated medical equipment, but innovative prosthetic design may not offer the same benefits for all knee replacement recipients, Yale School of Medicine researchers report in a ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Oct 20, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Children dependent on life support vulnerable to loss of electrical power

Children dependent on electrically powered medical devices for life support and maintenance are vulnerable to an unexpected loss of power – and their parents are ill-prepared to deal with it, according to an abstract ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 16, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Medical packaging can make the difference

(Medical Xpress) -- At the site of a car crash, in an emergency room or at an operating table: The seconds it takes to get a medical device to work properly or to understand the packaging on a device can be ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 30, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Commentary: Drug companies must report clinical trial results, even when they won't lead to a product

Drug companies sponsoring human trials of possible new medications have ethical responsibilities to study participants and to science to disclose the results of their clinical research -- even when product development is ...

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Sep 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

New devices like motorcycle ambulances help poor

(AP) -- A bit of creativity never hurts, especially when it comes to solving health problems in developing countries.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Patients should know if their doctors get paid by drug firms

Your doctor gives you an expensive new drug to control your cholesterol, or recommends a certain brand of artificial hip, or says you need a stent to open a clogged artery.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0