Archive for the ‘Medical Tech’ Category

ADDING MULTIMEDIA BIOTRONIK Launches Lumax 540 VR-T DX, The World’s Only Single-Chamber ICD With Complete Atrial Diagnostics A novel solution for optimizing sensor-based diagnostics for patients with cardiac disease BERLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BIOTRONIK SE & Co. KG, a worldwide leader in manufacturing cardiac medical devices, announced today that the innovative ... Full story

The remoteness and resource limitations of spaceflight pose a serious challenge to astronaut health care. One solution is ultrasound. ... Full story

For the healthcare worker, finding the right mobile ventilator during a crisis can be a daunting task, if not impossible. Allied Healthcare, a St. Louis-based company that manufactures high quality medical products, announces a new and affordable group of mobile ventilators designed specifically for mass casualty needs (emergency situations). “American hospitals face two very challenging scenarios in delivering mechanical ventilation,” said Earl Refsland, CEO ... Full story

Mayo Clinic investigators and collaborators from the United Kingdom cured well-established prostate tumors in mice using a human vaccine with no apparent side effects. This novel cancer treatment approach encourages the immune system to rid itself of prostate tumors without assistance from toxic chemotherapies and radiation treatments. Such a treatment model could some day help people to live tumor free ... Full story

Researchers at TU/e, together with the Italian company Esaote, have developed a new technique to measure the blood pressure. Using an ultrasound scanner, which is well known from the scans carried out by midwives, they will soon be able to measure the blood pressure pulse at many points in the body. That will provide much more information about the vascular ... Full story

A new system would jam wireless signals sent to medical implants by unauthorized users.Everyone who doesn't know the secret key just sees a garbage signal." Because the shield knows the shape of its own jamming signal, Full story

Christie Medical Innovations has announced its new VeinViewer Vision OmniMount, which provides a smaller physical footprint and reduced cost for the company’s VeinViewer platform. The VeinViewer technology uses near-infrared light to produce an image of a patient’s veins, and then projects the image directly onto the skin to aid in IV placement. “VeinViewer has proven to be a truly revolutionary device ... Full story

Bio-sensor work gets MIT prize Mark Baard THE BOSTON GLOBE June 12, 2011 ET Sensors embedded in consumer and med­ical devices can do much to measure a per­son’s health. Mon­itors strapped to the chest measure a heartbeat. GPS transponders gauge how far and fast an individual walks or runs. ... Full story

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Researchers have developed a new type of imaging technology to diagnose cardiovascular disease and other disorders by measuring ultrasound signals from molecules exposed to a fast-pulsing laser. The new method could be used to take precise three-dimensional images of plaques lining arteries, said Ji-Xin Cheng, an associate professor of biomedical engineering and chemistry at Purdue University. ... Full story

Time-of-Flight within your reach TruFlight Select makes Time-of-Flight (TOF) technology accessible virtually to everyone. Thanks to Imaging 2.0, a new approach to imaging technology, the TOF technology that was previously available only on our premium systems is now available to virtually all. According to a recent study , TOF scans can ... Full story