Archive for the ‘Oncology’ Category

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

SUNNYVALE, CA, Oct 31, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Avantis Medical Systems, Inc., a technology leader in developing novel catheter-mounted digital imaging devices, today announced that results of a new analysis of its latest clinical data will be presented during the American College of Gastroenterology (ACG) 2011 Annual Scientific Meeting in Washington, D.C. The new abstract reports the results of subset analysis of a randomized, ... Full story

The FDA has approved a new noninvasive portable device for the treatment of a deadly type of brain tumor. The device uses electrical fields to slow and possibly reverse tumor growth. The device, manufactured by Novocure, is called the NovoTTF-100A System and is meant for adults with glioblastoma multiforme that recurs or progresses after chemotherapy and radiation treatment. ... Full story

A paper published in the January issue of the journal Nanomedicine could provide the foundation for a new ovarian cancer treatment option -- one that would use an outside-the-body filtration device to remove a large portion of the free-floating cancer cells that often create secondary tumors. Researchers at the Georgia ... Full story

“Taiwan has excellent development conditions of medical equipments because we have outstanding medical industry and electronic industry, and if we can integrate the basics of electronic industry with medical treatment, high-quality medical equipments will be produced.” Two and a half years ago, ... Full story