Zsquare receives FDA clearance to market for single-use ENT endoscope
The patented polymeric fiber is a breakthrough in the world of miniaturizing visualization.
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Continue Reading »Stimdia Stimulates Pivotal Study with New Financing
The company’s pdSTIM System provides temporary stimulation to strengthen the diaphragm in patients on mechanical ventilation.
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Continue Reading »Inspira™ Technologies Reveals Next Generation Liby™ ECMO, an Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation System, Targeting a $531 Million Global ECMO Market
Inspira™ Technologies Reveals Next Generation Liby™ ECMO, an Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation System, Targeting a $531 Million Global ECMO Market – read this article along with other careers information, tips and advice on BioSpace…
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Continue Reading »Microfluidic Chip Models Inflammatory Intestinal Disease | Medgadget
Researchers at Harvard’s Wyss Institute have modeled Environmental Enteric Dysfunction (EED), a childhood inflammatory intestinal disease, on a microfluidic chip and gained new insights into the genetic changes underlying the condition. This is the first in vitro model of the disease, and highlights the power of organ on a chip systems to provide insights into complex disease states.
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Continue Reading »Soft Bioresorbable Implant Controls Pain by Cooling Nerves | Medgadget
A team of engineers at Northwestern University led by John Rogers, the person responsible for many advances in flexible electronics, created a drug-free implant that can control pain by cooling nerves. The soft implant is intended to be wrapped around a nerve during surgical procedures that would typically involve opioid-based analgesia afterwards. As a drug-free technology, the implant could help to avoid the addiction and side-effects that opioids frequently cause.
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Continue Reading »TORdx LUNG Test for Donor Lung Assessment: Interview with Eric Brouwer, Chief Scientific Officer at SQI Diagnostics | Medgadget
SQI Diagnostics, a medtech company based in Canada, is developing the TORdx LUNG Test. The technology is intended to assist clinicians in assessing donor lungs in their suitability for transplantation. At present, clinicians typically assess donor lungs using qualitative variables, such as donor health and lung size. One of the most important factors, lung inflammation, is difficult to assess, and clinicians will often play it safe and reject an organ if there is any doubt about it. …
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Continue Reading »Roche’s Alzheimer’s blood test earns FDA breakthrough tag
In the wake of the FDA handing down its first clearance for an in vitro test for early-stage Alzheimer’s in May, the floodgates have been opened.
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Continue Reading »FDA rejects Lumos Diagnostics’ rapid infectious disease test
Lumos Diagnostics’ FebriDx point-of-care test will have to wait a bit longer to see the light of day in the U.S.
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Continue Reading »FDA clears Radialis’ organ-targeted PET imager
A PET imaging system newly cleared by the FDA adjusts to the patient, instead of than the other way around.
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Continue Reading »FDA clears Werfen system to rapidly test for critical bleeding
In situations that can lead to or be made more dangerous by excessive bleeding or clotting—such as heart and liver surgeries, major blood transfusions and severe trauma—it’s crucial that care teams…
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