POSTS TAGGED AS hypertension

Implanted Device for Blood Pressure Control

ROX Medical – the Coupler
In a British clinical trial, ROX Medical (San Clemente, CA) has shown that its “Coupler” device [MORE]

Advanced Noninvasive Blood Monitor

EdwardscClearSight Noninvasive Blood Monitor
Edwards Lifesciences (Irvine, CA) has received FDA approval for its “Clear Sight” blood monitor—“The inflatable finger [MORE]

iHealth “Smart Cuff” for Hypertension/Endothelial Function Monitoring

iHealth Cuff
iHealthLabs (Mountain View, CA) manufactures several wireless devices for health monitoring—a scale, activity and sleep tracker, pulse oximeter, and [MORE]

Biomarker/Sensor for Brain Injury During Heart Surgery

Schematic of an OTFT Device
Organic thin film transistors are dramatically changing the design and development of medical devices, and [MORE]

Placental Growth Factor Marker for Preeclampsia and Premature Delivery

St. Thomas' Hospital, London
“Downton Abbey” devotees may still be grieving over Lady Sybil’s death from eclampsia in last January’s [MORE]

Wrist Worn BP Monitor

ViSi Mobile
As one medical automation authority said, “[this device] is a complete wireless ambulatory ICU,” referring to “ViSi Mobile” [MORE]

New Material Enables BP Watch

Watch to Measure BP
A Swiss company, STBL Medical Research AG (Freienbach, CH) has developed a watch-like device that detects [MORE]

Telemonitoring Drug Trials

The US FDA has approved the first telemonitoring protocol for a clinical trial involving a hypertensive drug for 180 [MORE]

Hypertension Device Market

In most cases, hypertensives control their blood pressure with medications, but for about one third of those patients, drugs [MORE]

Telemed Management Better than Office Visits in Several Instances

At the American College of Cardiology’s annual meeting earlier this year, a study was presented showing that internet-based systems [MORE]

Taking BP in Both Arms

Researchers at the Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry (Exeter and Plymouth, England) studied hypertensive patients and found that [MORE]

iPhone BP Monitor

BP Monitor iPhone App
In earlier issues, Tagline has had a piece or two about physicians prescribing a smart phone [MORE]

Cuffless BP Meter

Tarilian Laser Technologies (Welwyn Garden City, Herts, UK) has developed a cuffless blood pressure monitor that can take a [MORE]

Exome Sequencing for Hypertension

With low-cost clinical genomic sequencing coming sooner than most medical experts expected, the question still is how useful will [MORE]