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High-Speed Bluetooth

PSG College of Technology (named for an Indian industrialist/philanthropist on the order of Andrew Carnegie) has superb engineering capabilities and [MORE]

Gastrofish for Colon Cancer

Gastrocor, Inc. (Glen Allen, VA) has developed the first tissue-based fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) diagnostic test for chromosome abnormalities [MORE]

First Robot-Assisted Endoscopic Aortic Value Replacement

ATS Medical, Inc. (Minneapolis, MN) recently announced that its highly pliable aortic valve replacement had been used with the [MORE]

Seizure Detection Technology

Two companies-Cyberonics (Houston, TX) and Flint Hills Scientific (Lawrence, KS) are teaming up to make a more effective, implantable device [MORE]

Dr. John Simpson-Angioplasty Pioneer

German physician Andreas Gruentzig invented balloon angioplasty in 1977, but University of Texas physician and bioengineer John Simpson developed the [MORE]

New Biomarker Test for Breast Cancer

Provista Life Sciences (Phoenix, AZ) is now marketing in 41 states a “Biomarker Translation Test” or “BT Test” for breast [MORE]

Minimally Invasive Innovation for Lung Disease

Broncus Technologies (Mountain View, CA) has installed its first “LungPoint” system at the John Lincoln Hospital in Phoenix.  It is [MORE]

Imaging Inflammation in Brain Cells

Researchers at the University Medical Center in Groningen, The Netherlands have used positron emission tomography to show inflammation in the [MORE]

Telemedicine: Listening for Newborn’s Heart Murmur

Using a Philips 5500 ultrasound machine, connected to a Librestream Onsight 2000R video device, and a secured communications network (provided [MORE]

Optical System to Image Electrical and Metabolic Activity of the Heart

Researchers at Vanderbilt University have developed a two-camera system, used during surgery, to visualize a heart’s electrical activity and, [MORE]

Methacetin Breath-Test for Predicting Hep-C Survivability

13C-methacetin, an isotope labeled analygesic, has been used to diagnose liver disease because it quantitatively evaluates cytochrome P450-dependent liver function.  [MORE]

Wireless Digital Plaster for Telemedicine

CareFusion (San Diego, CA), whose business motto is “measurable improvements in patient care,” has funded the clinical trial of [MORE]

Energy Savings

The story about Custom Mechanical Systems Corp. (Bargersville, IN) that appeared in The Medical News virtually is an advertisement, but [MORE]

Artificial Tissue

Professor Dek Woolfson, at the University of Bristol (UK), has been growing artificial tissue that might be used as [MORE]

Computer Modeling of Cancer Pathways

Relying on genomic profiling data, researchers at the Translational Genomics Research Institute in Phoenix, and nearby Scottsdale Health, have discovered [MORE]

Rechargeable Deep Brain Stimulator

St. Jude Medical, Inc. (St. Paul, MN) has implanted its first rechargeable deep brain stimulator in a Parkinson’s patient’s brain [MORE]

Acoustic Cell Sorting

Labcyte, Inc (Sunnyvale, CA)—a company that pioneered acoustic methods for transferring liquids from pico to nanoliter containers—has  now developed an [MORE]

Professor Robert Wood at Harvard Receives $10M Grant for Medical Robots

Anyone old enough to remember US Senator William Proxmire’s “golden fleece” awards, can imagine how he would react to the [MORE]

ICU in a Suitcase

Integrated Medical Systems, Inc. (Birmingham, AL) recently received $3.25 m from the US Army’s Medical Research and Material Command to [MORE]

Remote Monitoring of Lab Equipment

Ortho Clinical Diagnostics recently opened a 24-7 equipment monitoring center in Rochester, NY, which allows continuously tracking of laboratory equipment [MORE]