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Developing Pediatric Devices in Michigan and Virginia

For all the sensitivity to children’s health, it is surprising that most pediatric hospitals are financially struggling and there [MORE]

3-D Minimally Invasive Surgery

Consider these points: 1) any surgical procedure that can be done on an out-patient basis, will be done that [MORE]

Zapping Down Hypertension

With a procedure similar to angioplasty, clinical investigators in Melbourne, Australia, threaded a catheter from the groin to a [MORE]

Cleveland Clinic’s “AtriClip”

Among the risks to atrial fibrillation patients is the possibility that blood will thicken and clot in the heart’s [MORE]

Surgical Improvement Program

Currently, there are about 250 hospitals in the US that do surgery quality assessments based on the American College [MORE]

Amadeus Surgical Robot

In head to head competition with the da Vinci Surgical Robot (Intuitive Surgical, Sunnyvale, CA), Titan Medical, Inc. (Toronto, [MORE]

Magnesium-Based Mini Medical Devices

19th century English dentist Charles Stent, who invented a dental impression compound, could never have imagined he would be [MORE]

“Surgical Smoke”

When surgeons use electroscalpels, which cut and cauterize, puffs of smoke come off the tissue.  Professor Zoltán Takáts, at Justus [MORE]

Willem Kolff (1912-2009)

Artificial organ pioneer, Dr. Willem Kolff, passed away last week at his home in Philadelphia.  During his distinguished career, which [MORE]

Cold Cuts

Conventional cooling techniques for surgery include cold jackets and ice baths which can take hours to reach the desired [MORE]

Biopolymer for Cartilage Repair

“Chon Dux” is a new material, made of polyethylene glycol and a bioadhesive that is being used to repair knee [MORE]

Seeing Where to Cut People

Cancer takes its name from the Latin for crab; so now imagine trying to cut a crab from a block [MORE]