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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...

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Studies 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,...

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Million-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...

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Novartis, 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...

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Medtronic 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...

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Lillly 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...

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Oracle 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,...

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Medtronic 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,...

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Blood 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...

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Lab-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...

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"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...

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Mass 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...

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Lost 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...

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Accidental, 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...

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Replacing 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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