Archive for December 2016
The Defeat of Breast Cancer Will Mark the Beginning of the End for Cancer
If the war on cancer is ever decisively and finally won, chances are good the world will look back and see that the first major turning point was the eradication of breast cancer. And this initial victory will be remembered as a smart place to have started. For, circa 2016-17, the fight against breast cancer…
Read MoreCleveland Clinic Announces Top 10 Medical Innovations for 2017
The Cleveland Clinic announced its list of the top 10 medical innovations that have the potential to transform healthcare in 2017. The 11th annual list was announced Wednesday during the Cleveland Clinic 2016 Medical Innovation Summit, held this week at the Huntington Convention Center of Cleveland and the adjacent Global Center for Health Innovation. A…
Read MoreLegislation Streamlines FDA Approval Process for Medical Device Industry
(TNS) — The federal Food and Drug Administration has required medical companies testing new products to get permission from multiple separate regional FDA review boards across the country wherever test subjects live. Legislation that President Barack Obama signed earlier this month will allow medical device companies the option of reporting to one centralized FDA review…
Read MoreUnder Trump, Congress Likely to Pull Plug on Medical Device Tax
When Donald Trump takes over as president on Jan. 20, one of the first business tax breaks he delivers is likely to go to the U.S. medical device industry and companies like Mark Throdahl’s. The chief executive of OrthoPediatrics Corp, based in northern Indiana, said his company has been able to hire more workers since…
Read MoreSensor Technology Mimicking the Feeling of Skin and Hair
Researchers at the Harbin Institute of Technology have developed an extremely sensitive tactile sensor that mimics how our hair and skin work together to feel touch, the movement of air, and different textures of objects we come in contact with. The technology may one day be integrated into prosthetic devices that will allow amputees to…
Read MoreMansfield-Based 3D Animator Creates Medical Training Videos
From a workstation with three computer monitors arrayed in his basement, 3D animation artist Sean Maynard, shown with his dog Augie, has been producing animated medical videos – to help patients — and doctors — better visualize how a medical procedure, new device or new drug will work. Sean Maynard has never performed a surgical…
Read MoreNew Cardiac Tool Helps Repair Holes in Children’s Hearts
It’s always important to check your work. A new cardiac imaging tool allows surgeons to repair serious residual holes in the heart that may occur when repairing a child’s heart defect. The transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) allows surgeons to identify intramural ventricular skeptical defects—or holes in the wall between two heart chambers. “These defects, which can…
Read MoreFDA Bans Its Second Medical Device Ever
(NEWSER) – The Food and Drug Administration has banned only the second medical device ever, and it’s sort of an unlikely one: powdered medical gloves. Powder has for decades been added to (now a small minority) of latex medical gloves to help healthcare workers put them on and remove them more easily. But since the…
Read MoreDICOM Standards Committee Addresses 3D Printing
Administraion officials of the Digital Imaging and Communication in Medicine (DICOM) Standards Committee (DSC) announced that they will be launching Working Group 17 (WG-17) that will focus on the promotion of the DICOM standard for the creation, storage and management of 3D printing models in a healthcare setting. “This emerging technology will benefit from a…
Read MoreDementia Will Be a Treatable Condition in 10 Years
A HOPEFUL DIRECTOR Professor Bart De Strooper, the Belgian neuroscientist recently appointed as director of the U.K.’s Dementia Research Institute (DRI), is optimistic that dementia will be a treatable condition by 2025. “We won’t be celebrating in 2025 that dementia is cured, but I hope that by then there will be groups of patients who can…
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