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 Included in the OneTouch® Verio™IQ Meter   OneTouch® Verio™IQ Meter with rechargeable battery AC adaptor Mini USB cable OneTouch® Delica® Lancing Device OneTouch® Delica® Lancets Owner’s Booklet Get Started Guide Carrying case OneTouch® Diabetes Management Software Systems Requirements Page High speed Internet access highly recommended for download A OneTouch® Meter with a data port. A Windows®-compatible computer with the following components: 266 ... Full story

FREMONT, Calif. and JACKSONVILLE, Fla., May 15, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NIDEK, a global leader in the design, manufacturing, and distribution of ophthalmic equipment, announces the FDA 510(k) Clearance for the AFC-330, their most automated fundus camera yet. All in one with built-in camera and ... Full story

Skaneateles Falls, NY, May 7, 2012 –Welch Allyn, a leading global provider of medical diagnostic solutions, today introduced the industry's first extra small, disposable vaginal speculum at the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) Annual Clinical Meeting in San Diego. Available for sale in August, the extra small KleenSpec® Disposable Vaginal Speculum joins the company's suite of vaginal specula designed to work with the ... Full story

This Breathalyzer Reveals Signs of Disease One exhale and new device could screen for everything from diabetes to lung cancer This invention could give new meaning to the term "bad breath!" It's the Single Breath Disease Diagnostics Breathalyzer, and when you blow into it, you get tested for a biomarker—a sign of disease. As amazing as that sounds, the process is actually very simple thanks to ceramics ... Full story

Hip replacement is one of the most frequent operations carried out in Germany. Each year, doctors implant some 200,000 artificial hip joints. Often the artificial hips need to be replaced just ten years later. In the future, a new implant currently being developed using high technology materials could help prevent premature revision surgeries. Thanks to artificial hips, people with irreparable damage to the joint have been ... Full story

Sanofi iBGStar® Blood Glucose Monitoring System Now Available in the U.S. - First FDA Cleared Blood Glucose Meter that Connects Directly to iPhone® and iPod touch® - - Available at Apple® Retail Stores and Walgreens Nationwide, Online at Apple.com, Walgreens.com and through Diabetic Care Services - - Recipient of Two Design Awards for Outstanding Product Design - BRIDGEWATER, N.J., – May 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Sanofi US announced today ... Full story

ProUroScan is an advanced medical imaging system that uses an array of sensors mounted on a rectal probe, a central processing unit and software and image construction algorithms to provide a real time color image of abnormalities in the prostate. The system provides an image or record of the pressures that are generated from palpation of the posterior surface of the prostate using ... Full story

Intuitive Surgical Announces New Single-Site(TM) Instrumentation for the da Vinci(R) Si(TM) Surgical System SUNNYVALE, Calif., Dec. 12, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Intuitive Surgical, Inc. (Nasdaq:ISRG), the global leader in minimally invasive robotic-assisted surgery, today announced that it received FDA clearance to market its Single-Site Instrumentation for laparoscopic cholecystectomy procedures, the surgical removal of the gall bladder. ... Full story

A biomolecular detection platform is presented that utilizes a capacitive touchscreen to measure DNA concentration. The technology is ready for integration into touchscreen-equipped smart phones or smart pads, and should truly accelerate the realization of personalized portable biosensors. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.201105986/abstract Full story

Ontario nuclear plants are the first in their industry worldwide to test-drive a futuristic gizmo that measures employees' concentration by reading brain waves. The premise is deceptively simple: Use the electric current released by neurons firing in the brain to test, in real time, a person’s concentration level. And the device is strikingly svelte – this is no Medusa-like helmet of ... Full story