News results: "medical devices"

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Health

Bariatric Surgery Before Pregnancy Drastically Reduces Risks

Bariatric Surgery Before Pregnancy Drastically Reduces Risks

Researchers have found that obese women who undergo weight-loss surgery before becoming pregnant...
» read full story November 19th, 2008 - 23:01
Intel Releases Its First Home Medical Device

Intel Releases Its First Home Medical Device

Intel has initiated pilot programs to examine a home health laptop, application, and database...
» read full story November 11th, 2008 - 09:38
Intel Launches Its Health-Monitoring Device, Health Guide PHS6000

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...
» read full story November 10th, 2008 - 11:23
Study: Your Headphones Might Be Bad For Your Heart

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...
» read full story November 09th, 2008 - 22:50

Contaminated Blood Thinner Heparin Seized

Federal agents announced Thursday they have seized some of an Ohio company's supplies of tainted...
» read full story November 07th, 2008 - 17:10
Tainted Blood Thinner Seized by US Marshals in Ohio

Tainted Blood Thinner Seized by US Marshals in Ohio

The scandal around tainted heparin is again in the spotlight, as federal officials said...
» read full story November 07th, 2008 - 14:00
Experts Say the FDA Didn't Properly Assess BPA Health Risks

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...
» read full story October 29th, 2008 - 20:42

New Zealand Approves Pig Cell Transplants for Diabetes

Wellington - New Zealand has approved trials of pig cell transplants to patients with Type 1...
» read full story October 27th, 2008 - 14:17
J&J’s Anemia Drug Linked To High Rate Of Stroke Deaths

J&J’s Anemia Drug Linked To High Rate Of Stroke Deaths

According to preliminary results from a new study, the intake of anti-anemia drugs may be...
» read full story September 29th, 2008 - 14:40
Drug-Coated Stents Safe for All Heart Attack Patients

Drug-Coated Stents Safe for All Heart Attack Patients

Drug-coated stents are safe to use and effective for all heart attack patients and they can cut...
» read full story September 26th, 2008 - 14:30
Drug-Coated Stents Are Official Life Savers

Drug-Coated Stents Are Official Life Savers

Taxus Express2 Atom Stent System and Taxus Express2 Stent System received approval from the U.S....
» read full story September 25th, 2008 - 20:12
BPA Affects Health

BPA Affects Health

A study in the September 17 issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) showed...
» read full story September 20th, 2008 - 13:15
BPA Is Harmful After All

BPA Is Harmful After All

According to a study in the September 17 issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association...
» read full story September 16th, 2008 - 21:48
Plastic Chemical Linked to Heart Disease and Diabetes

Plastic Chemical Linked to Heart Disease and Diabetes

British researchers have revealed that, for the first time, a connection between a chemical used...
» read full story September 16th, 2008 - 20:12
FDA Clears Test For Heart-Transplant Rejection

FDA Clears Test For Heart-Transplant Rejection

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a noninvasive test that allows physicians to...
» read full story August 29th, 2008 - 13:55
Sen. Clinton Appalled By The Bush Administration Abortion Plan

Sen. Clinton Appalled By The Bush Administration Abortion Plan

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» read full story July 19th, 2008 - 10:08
Kids Head to Inactivity By Age 15, New Research Shows

Kids Head to Inactivity By Age 15, New Research Shows

As kids grow from pre-pubescence into teens, their rate of physical activity starts declining...
» read full story July 16th, 2008 - 11:18
Intel Corp.’s Health Guide Gets FDA Clearance

Intel Corp.’s Health Guide Gets FDA Clearance

The US Food and Drug Administration on Thursday cleared Intel Health Guide, a healthcare...
» read full story July 14th, 2008 - 11:06
Wireless Chips May Interfere with Medical Devices Posing Risks

Wireless Chips May Interfere with Medical Devices Posing Risks

A study published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association reveals that wireless...
» read full story June 25th, 2008 - 14:20
Tomato-Tainting Salmonella Source May Remain Mystery

Tomato-Tainting Salmonella Source May Remain Mystery

Quite a while has passed since the Salmonella outbreak linked to certain types of tomatoes has...
» read full story June 19th, 2008 - 18:52
Bush Administration Pumps Money in Food and Drug Safety

Bush Administration Pumps Money in Food and Drug Safety

The Bush administration has apparently finally realized that more money are needed to ensure the...
» read full story June 10th, 2008 - 22:50
Kaiser to Use Microsoft's HealthVault

Kaiser to Use Microsoft's HealthVault

Kaiser Permanente, the biggest U.S. health maintenance organization (HMO), has announced that it...
» read full story June 09th, 2008 - 16:29
FDA’s New Sentinel System to Identify Dangers from Drugs

FDA’s New Sentinel System to Identify Dangers from Drugs

As the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s drug safety monitoring has been criticized as...
» read full story May 23rd, 2008 - 10:59
Dennis Quaid Supports Patients’ Right to Sue Drugmakers

Dennis Quaid Supports Patients’ Right to Sue Drugmakers

Actor Dennis Quaid testified again, this time before Congress on Wednesday, about the nightmare he...
» read full story May 15th, 2008 - 12:54
FDA to Discuss Patient Satisfaction with Lasik Procedure

FDA to Discuss Patient Satisfaction with Lasik Procedure

Following complaints of blurry vision and dry eyes and other complications several patients...
» read full story April 25th, 2008 - 12:51
FDA: Heparin Deaths Triple to 62 from 19 Initially Reported

FDA: Heparin Deaths Triple to 62 from 19 Initially Reported

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday that the number of reported patients who died...
» read full story April 09th, 2008 - 11:33
Home Defibrillators Questioned

Home Defibrillators Questioned

New research, designed to see whether automated external defibrillators (AED) could extend the...
» read full story April 02nd, 2008 - 11:30
Supreme Court Backs Medical-Device Manufacturers

Supreme Court Backs Medical-Device Manufacturers

The Supreme Court today ruled that patients could not sue medical-device manufacturers in state...
» read full story February 21st, 2008 - 11:03
Pedometers Help People Improve Their Health

Pedometers Help People Improve Their Health

A recent study on people using pedometers showed that they have a better physical condition, lose...
» read full story November 21st, 2007 - 09:12
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Technology

Intel Develops Health Care Program

Intel Develops Health Care Program

Intel announced at a medical conference in New Orleans that it will introduce technology which will...
» read full story November 11th, 2008 - 20:41
Intel Rolls Out Its New System-On-A-Chip Technology

Intel Rolls Out Its New System-On-A-Chip Technology

On Thursday, Intel addressed the embedded market with the first eight products of its...
» read full story July 24th, 2008 - 16:26
Verizon, AT&T Reveal Their Plans For The Wireless Spectrum

Verizon, AT&T Reveal Their Plans For The Wireless Spectrum

Verizon Wireless said that the spectrum it gained in the FCC’s 700 MHz auction will allow the...
» read full story April 05th, 2008 - 19:26
Study Warns: Heart Defibrillators Vulnerable To Hacker Attacks

Study Warns: Heart Defibrillators Vulnerable To Hacker Attacks

U.S. researchers unveiled on Wednesday that even humans can be vulnerable to hacker attacks. How...
» read full story March 12th, 2008 - 15:36
Microsoft Launches HealthVault

Microsoft Launches HealthVault

In a quite unexpected move Microsoft launched a new Web service med at helping people better...
» read full story October 07th, 2007 - 15:52
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Science

Study: Magnetic Substance In MP3 Player Headphones Deludes Pacemakers

Study: Magnetic Substance In MP3 Player Headphones Deludes Pacemakers

The impact of portable devices on pacemakers and defibrillators has been the subject of fiery...
» read full story November 10th, 2008 - 14:30
Scientists Revive Paralyzed Wrists With Re-Routed Brain Signals

Scientists Revive Paralyzed Wrists With Re-Routed Brain Signals

Scientists have taken another significant step toward restoring paralyzed patients the use of...
» read full story October 16th, 2008 - 13:58
Kids Head To Inactivity By Age 15, New Study Shows

Kids Head To Inactivity By Age 15, New Study Shows

As kids grow from pre-pubescence into teens, their rate of physical activity starts declining...
» read full story July 16th, 2008 - 20:19
US Researchers Identify Autism Genes Heightening Hope for Cure

US Researchers Identify Autism Genes Heightening Hope for Cure

A genetic research on more than 100 families prone to autism by Harvard researchers shed new light...
» read full story July 11th, 2008 - 11:58
Study Warns: Electromagnetic Interference In Hospitals Risky

Study Warns: Electromagnetic Interference In Hospitals Risky

Radio frequency identification devices (RIFD) could pose a serious threat to critical care medical...
» read full story June 26th, 2008 - 12:35
IBM Knows What It Takes To Move An Atom

IBM Knows What It Takes To Move An Atom

The IBM scientists have opened the door to the new scientific breakthroughs. In a close...
» read full story February 21st, 2008 - 23:22
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Specials

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...
» read full story November 17th, 2008 - 12:38
Don't Mix Headphones With Pacemakers And Defibrillators

Don't Mix Headphones With Pacemakers And Defibrillators

A new research conducted at the Medical Device Safety Institute at Beth Israel Medical Center in...
» read full story November 11th, 2008 - 14:05
Research Shows MP3 Player Headphones May Disrupt Pacemakers

Research Shows MP3 Player Headphones May Disrupt Pacemakers

A study publicized by U.S. researchers at an American Heart Association meeting in New Orleans...
» read full story November 10th, 2008 - 17:01
Three States Urge Companies to Stop Using BPA in Baby Bottles

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...
» read full story October 14th, 2008 - 20:57

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...
» read full story August 06th, 2008 - 14:19
Clinton Says NO to Newly-Proposed Abortion Definition

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...
» read full story July 19th, 2008 - 13:54
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Business

Philips to Acquire Respironics for $ 5,1B

Philips to Acquire Respironics for $ 5,1B

Royal Philips Electronics NV, one of the largest electronics companies in the world and the biggest...
» read full story December 21st, 2007 - 13:02
Boston Scientific Will Settle Defibrillator Probes

Boston Scientific Will Settle Defibrillator Probes

Boston Scientific Corp., a worldwide developer, manufacturer and marketer of medical devices, has...
» read full story August 30th, 2007 - 20:30
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Sports

Robert Kubica Is Ready Race In Indianapolis

Robert Kubica Is Ready Race In Indianapolis

Despite he was involved in one of the worst crashes from the recent history of Formula One, Robert...
» read full story June 13th, 2007 - 18:54
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World

Medicare Payment Error Rate Higher Than Said

Medicare Payment Error Rate Higher Than Said

The inspector general at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services denounced Medicare for...
» read full story August 26th, 2008 - 15:16

Federal Agents May Seize Travelers’ Laptops at Border

Under a new measure introduced by the Bush administration, federal agents may seize a traveler's...
» read full story August 01st, 2008 - 19:12
Bomb Maker Suspect For Targeting Synagogues

Bomb Maker Suspect For Targeting Synagogues

According to police, a man from Brooklyn who is a suspect for having pipe bombs and firearms at...
» read full story January 22nd, 2008 - 17:09

Two Deputies Killed in Chase of Stolen Car, the Pursuit Continues

The search for the two suspects who stole a car in Belle Glade and caused a chase that led to the...
» read full story November 28th, 2007 - 14:09
Tacoma Shook by Explosion

Tacoma Shook by Explosion

A powerful explosion rocked Tacoma, a port side city in Washington, United States, on Saturday...
» read full story October 07th, 2007 - 22:11
Police Discovers More Bombs in Hyderabad

Police Discovers More Bombs in Hyderabad

Indian police found several explosive devices in Hyderabad, the capital city of the Indian state of...
» read full story August 26th, 2007 - 13:47
Car Bombs Kill 220 People in Northwest Iraq

Car Bombs Kill 220 People in Northwest Iraq

Coordinated attacks killed 220 Iraqis and injured at least 400 in a northwestern town late Tuesday,...
» read full story August 15th, 2007 - 12:44
US Airstrike Kills 3 Shiite Extremists In Baghdad

US Airstrike Kills 3 Shiite Extremists In Baghdad

The US military killed three suspected Shiite extremist and wounded three civilians Thursday...
» read full story May 10th, 2007 - 12:14
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