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FDA Wants to Review Older Medical Devices
The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday required manufacturers of 25 types of medical devices...
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Intel and GE team up on telemedicine
New York - Going to the doctor could become a thing of the past for many people if the telemedicine...
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Intel, GE Reportedly Plan to Announce Health Care Partnership
Chip giant Intel Corp. and US conglomerate General Electric Co plan to announce a partnership in...
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Stents Better than Bypass Surgery at Relieving Pain
A new study presented Saturday at the American College of Cardiology conference in Orlando,...
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Stimulus Bill, Health Care Reform, Crucial Issues on Obama’s Agenda
Health care reform and the controversial stimulus bill continue to be crucial issues on...
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J&J’s Ablation Catheters Given Regulatory Approval for Atrial Fibrillation
People suffering from atrial fibrillation now have another way of treatment offered by...
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FDA Clears J&J Catheter for Atrial Fibrillation
The US Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved Johnson & Johnson’s Navistar...
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IBM Helps Google In An Effort To Put Personal Health Data Online
It looks like Google and IBM will team up in order to help get personal health data online, as the...
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IBM Teams up with Google for Your Health
Thanks to a new project, people who use Google Health will be able to connect their personal...
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Woman Attacked by Jaguar Is In Critical Condition
According to authorities in Frederick County, a zookeeper is hospitalized in critical condition...
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Obama and New Administration, Urged To Boost FDA’s Food-Related Spending
The Food and Drug administration is one of the most important regulatory agencies in the United...
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GAO: FDA Has To Change Its System For Approving Devices
A report released this week by the Government Accountability Office reveals that some of...
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FDA Allows Drugmakers to Advise Doctors on Off-label Uses
Just days before the Bush administration turns over power to President-elect Barack Obama’s...
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Doctors Failed To Report To The FDA in 2008
As the year 2009 dawned on us, it’s time for reports on 2008, in as many domains as...
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Judge Dismisses Lawsuits Against Medtronic
A federal judge in St. Paul has dismissed dozens of patient lawsuits against Fridley-based...
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Study: More Sleep May Help Keep Heart Disease Away
A good night sleep helps keep heart disease away. According to a new study, sleeping an...
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Researchers Link Sleep with Heart Disease
A new study has discovered that the people who don’t sleep enough might be at risk to form...
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Sleep! Your Heart Will Thank You
A new study reveals that people who don't get much sleep are more likely to develop calcium...
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National Research Council asks EPA to Assess Phthalates
A panel from the independent National Research Council urged the U.S. Environmental...
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Report Calls For More Screening Of Brain Injury In Military Personnel
A report released Thursday by the Institute of Medicine,
a government advisory group that studies...
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Cleveland Clinic To Release Staff-Companies Relationship Reports
Because of some recent scandals, the Cleveland Clinic has announced that they are planning to...
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Study: CT Scans - an Alternative to Angiography, but Questions Persist
A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine reports that newer CT scans that use...
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Bariatric Surgery Before Pregnancy Drastically Reduces Risks
Researchers have found that obese women who undergo weight-loss surgery before becoming pregnant...
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Intel Releases Its First Home Medical Device
Intel has initiated pilot programs to examine a home health laptop, application, and database...
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Intel Launches Its Health-Monitoring Device, Health Guide PHS6000
Approved by the US Food and Drug Administration in July this
year, Intel’s Health Guide...
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Study: Your Headphones Might Be Bad For Your Heart
If you have an implanted cardiac device, you might want to double-check where you drop your MP3...
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Contaminated Blood Thinner Heparin Seized
Federal agents announced Thursday they have seized some of an Ohio company's supplies of tainted...
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Tainted Blood Thinner Seized by US Marshals in Ohio
The scandal around tainted heparin is again in the
spotlight, as federal officials said...
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Experts Say the FDA Didn't Properly Assess BPA Health Risks
Concerns regarding chemical bisphenol A, known as BPA, just won’t come to an end. BPA is an organic...
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New Zealand Approves Pig Cell Transplants for Diabetes
Wellington - New Zealand has approved trials of pig cell transplants to patients with Type 1...
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Intel and GE Sign $250 Million Deal in Health Care Field
Two Giant US companies announced Thursday that they will team up to produce a line of...
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Need a dog toilet, a knotless balloon? Meet the inventors
Geneva - What to do if you live next door to a veterinarian whose clients' dogs always leave behind...
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Medtronic’s Brain Stimulator Gets FDA Approval for OCD Patients
Patients suffering from severe obsessive-compulsive disorder that has not responded to medication...
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Willem J. Kolff, ‘Father Of The Artificial Organ’ Dies
Dr. Willem J. Kolff, the man behind the first artificial kidney and several other devices that...
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Surgery Can Make Artificial Arms Easier to Control
Tuesday, United States researchers said that a new type of surgery could offer amputees...
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IBM Announces Partnership with Google Health
People who already use Google Health program will now be able to transfer their health records...
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NTSB Opens 4-Day Hearing On Medical Helicopter Crashes
The National Transportation Safety Board on Tuesday began a four-day hearing in Washington ...
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Apple Will Make It Over The Next Five Months
The discussions on Steve Jobs’ health appear to keep on going, as the interest on the...
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Steve Jobs Is Taking Five Months Off Due To Medical Issues
Apple Inc.’s CEO Steve Jobs announced on Wednesday that he will be taking a leave of absence...
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Apple's Steve Jobs Is Taking Five Months Off Due To Medical Issues
Apple Inc.’s CEO Steve Jobs announced on Wednesday that he will be taking a leave of absence...
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FDA Scientists Complain About Corruption Inside The Agency
A group of nine scientists at the Food and Drug Administration sent a letter to President-elect...
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Brain-Stimulating Drugs: Should Healthy People Be Allowed to Take Them?
Should healthy people take prescription
drugs to boost their brain strength? A panel of medical...
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CT Scans Accurate in Spotting Blocked Arteries
Non-invasive CT scans proved to be as good as conventional angiography at spotting blocked arteries...
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Magnetic Field Therapy Said To Help Cure Body's Ills
Munich - Magnetic fields, which are common in our everyday lives but cannot be felt, are also...
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Don't Mix Headphones With Pacemakers And Defibrillators
A new research conducted at the Medical Device Safety
Institute at Beth Israel Medical Center in...
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Research Shows MP3 Player Headphones May Disrupt Pacemakers
A study publicized by U.S. researchers at an American Heart
Association meeting in New Orleans...
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Three States Urge Companies to Stop Using BPA in Baby Bottles
On Friday, attorneys
general from Connecticut, New
Jersey and Delaware
sent letters to a...
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FDA’s New Guidelines Limit Conflict of Interest among Advisers
FDA on Monday issued final guidelines that
seek to limit conflicts of interest among advisory...
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Clinton Says NO to Newly-Proposed Abortion Definition
On Friday, Sen. Hillary Clinton came down rather hard on a
plan put together by the Bush...
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