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Covidien, a leading global provider of healthcare products, today announced that its Surgical Devices business unit has introduced the VascuSeal Vascular Sealant System throughout Europe and in select Middle East markets.
VascuSeal offers surgeons a unique advanced hydrogel that provides an immediate, blood-tight seal that is effective intraoperatively and throughout the critical healing period. VascuSeal, [...]
A critically important new book on medical errors, Fatal Care: Survive in the U.s. Health System , has just been released. FATAL CARE was written by Dr. Sanjaya Kumar, an eminent expert in patient safety and quality, to raise awareness among consumers of the large number of medical errors in the US healthcare system, and [...]
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Beckman Coulter, Inc. (NYSE:BEC) announced today that it has licensed certain rights to testing for the hepatitis C virus (HCV) from Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics. Under the agreement, Beckman Coulter can develop, manufacture and sell a quantitative viral load HCV blood test for use on the company’s molecular diagnostic instrument, which is in development. As a [...]
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Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE: MDT) today announced that the FDA has cleared the OneTouch UltraLink Meter as the new wireless meter exclusively certified by Medtronic to wirelessly communicate with Medtronic diabetes management products in the United States. This new meter uses Medtronic-certified wireless technology to transmit glucose readings directly to MiniMed Paradigm insulin pumps and the [...]
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DynaMed Systems, LLC announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved its investigational Device Exemption (IDE) Application to study the Traxon Spinal Cord Repair Stimulation System (TRAXON System) in acute spinal cord injured patients. The study is designed to assess the safety and effectiveness of the TRAXON System, a surgically implanted [...]
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALNY), a leading RNAi therapeutics company, today announced the publication of a study in the Journal of Interferon & Cytokine Research by scientists at Alnylam Europe (now Roche Kulmbach), and [...]
Sorin Group (MIL:SRN) Cardiac Rhythm Management announced today the first implant in a clinical trial of its new-generation PARADYM 8770 sonR cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillator (CRT-D). This system contains a [...]
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Yulex Corporation, a company that produces natural rubber found to be safe for medical devices, received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market the first medical device made from guayule, a desert crop native to the U.S. Southwest.
The examination gloves made with patented Yulex(R) natural rubber, and cleared by [...]
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ARYx Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:ARYX) today announced that it has received clearance from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to initiate clinical testing of ATI-9242, a novel antipsychotic for the treatment of schizophrenia and other psychiatric disorders. The company has begun dosing healthy volunteers with ATI-9242 in a Phase 1 safety study being conducted under an [...]
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PhiloGene will debut its revolutionary advances in understanding the biology and the treatment of cancer and macular degeneration to a group of eminent venture capitalists and executives from pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies.
PhiloGene, through collaboration with Professor David Bates and Dr. Steve Harper at Bristol University in the UK, have found that a novel form [...]
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