AtriCure heart device safe, with caveats: FDA staff
(Reuters) - AtriCure Inc's Synergy Ablation System heart-rhythm device is safe and effective, but its trial size and design raise some concerns, U.S. medical device reviewers said. The...
View ArticleStudies show no extra risk with Pfizer smoking drug
(Reuters) - Smokers who take Pfizer's pill Chantix to help them quit do not have a higher risk of being hospitalized for psychiatric events such as depression, compared with nicotine patches,...
View ArticleMillion-dollar payments by joint implant manufacturers to surgeons raise...
By Frederik Joelving NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Orthopedic surgeons have received hundreds of millions of dollars from joint implant manufacturers in recent years, according to a...
View ArticleNovartis, Vectura lung drugs face delay in U.S.
LONDON (Reuters) - Two lung drugs being developed by Novartis and its British partner Vectura face delays in the United States, the Swiss drugmaker said on Tuesday, in an update with third-quarter...
View ArticleMedtronic investigates cyber attacks on medical devices
By Jim Finkle BOSTON (Reuters) - Medtronic Inc has asked software security experts to investigate the safety of its insulin pumps, as a new claim surfaced that at least one of its...
View ArticleLillly pulls sepsis drug Xigris, no benefit found
By Lewis Krauskopf and Ransdell Pierson (Reuters) - Eli Lilly and Co withdrew its sepsis drug Xigris from all markets after the product, deemed a potential big seller when it was...
View ArticleOracle releases SOA Suite for healthcare integration capabilities
Oracle has released its Oracle SOA Suite for healthcare integration, a unified enterprise application infrastructure platform. The Oracle SOA Suite delivers healthcare message standards support,...
View ArticleMedtronic heart device has safety issues: FDA staff
(Reuters) - U.S. device reviewers said a Medtronic Inc device was effective for treating a common heart rhythm disorder, but raised concerns about its safety. In documents released on Tuesday,...
View ArticleBlood Clot Busting Nanoparticles
Blood clots, while useful for stopping bleeding, are bad news for the brain and heart. Even if a clot can be located it is hard to get rid of, and the blood thinners prescribed to slow clotting can...
View ArticleLab-grown muscle implants
"While the body has a capacity to repair small defects in skeletal muscle, the only option for larger defects is to surgically move muscle from one part of the body to another. This is like robbing...
View Article"Paradigm-changing" Cancer Therapy
Scientists from Yale University have created what they call, “a paradigm-changing immunotherapeutic method for cancer therapy.” The Yale team’s new method for attacking cancer comes in form of a...
View ArticleMass Producing BioEngineered Tissues
Engineered skin and muscle produced like spools of tape might sound like science fiction, but it’s not. Researchers at the University of Toronto have developed a new device that may allow for the...
View ArticleLost love? Broken heart? Fix it with stem cells!
Jokes aside, new research has finally uncovered a drug that can generate unlimited numbers of new heart cells from stem cells. Called ITD-1, the new compound is a major medical breakthrough of massive...
View ArticleAccidental, game-changing nanoparticle discovery
Penicillin, teflon, plastic, and now nanoparticles; all breakthrough discoveries stemming from scientific “failures.” University of Central Florida graduate student Soroush Shabahang was trying to...
View ArticleReplacing heart valves without open-heart surgery
Snaking a catheter through an artery in your groin and up to your heart might not sound like “fun” but when compared to open-heart surgery you have to ask yourself “eh, Why not?” Nearly 40 percent of...
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