Diagnostics & Healthcare News

The bionic pancreas system developed by Boston University (BU) investigators proved better than either conventional or sensor-augmented insulin pump therapy at managing blood sugar levels in patients with type 1 diabetes living at home, with no restrictions, over 11 days. The report of a clinical trial led by a Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) physician is receiving advance…

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…

 (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…

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…

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…

A woman has given birth in London after doctors restored her fertility using frozen ovarian tissue removed when she was a young child. The 24-year-old is thought to be the first in the world to have a baby after having an ovary frozen before the onset of puberty. Moaza Al Matrooshi, whose son was delivered…

Fitness wearables company Fitbit, based in San Francisco, and Dublin, Ireland-based Medtronic, a medical device company, have teamed up to integrate health and activity tracking for patients living with diabetes and their physicians and care teams. The two companies have developed a mobile app, the iPro2 myLog app, that will enable patients living with type…

Around 50,000 people flooded Chicago’s McCormick Place for the RSNA conference. Radiologists, radiation oncologists, medical physicists and other healthcare professionals from around the world hurried between sessions as far as a 15-minute hike apart. They still found the time to tour the 414,000 square foot Exhibit Halls where 667 companies brought imaging equipment, simulations, 3D…

WASHINGTON — Total spending on health care in the United States increased last year at the fastest rate since the 2008 recession, reaching $3.2 trillion, or an average of nearly $10,000 a person, the Department of Health and Human Services reported on Friday. The growth coincided with continuing increases in the number of Americans with…

Telemedicine represents a growing segment of the healthcare sector, and telemedicine companies are reaping the benefits of its rising popularity. According to the Global Telemedicine Market Outlook 2020, published by RNCOS Consultancy, the global market for telemedicine technology was estimated at $17.8 billion as of 2014, with a projected compound annual growth rate of 18.4%…