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Ostial Solutions, LLC Announces Successful Exit in Sale to Merit Medical Systems, Inc.

17 hours ago | News

KALAMAZOO, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ostial Solutions, LLC, a privately-held company (the “Company”), today announced that it has sold substantially all of its assets to Merit Medical Systems, Inc. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Based in Kalamazoo, Michigan...

T2 Biosystems Announces Issuance of Key Patent Providing Broad Intellectual Property Protection for Direct Detection Diagnostic Methods

18 hours ago | News

LEXINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--T2 Biosystems, a company developing direct detection products enabling superior diagnostics, today announced the issuance of patent number 8,102,176 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office entitled “NMR Device for Detection of Analytes.”

NeuroScience Foundation Committed To Advancing Alzheimer’s Disease Research In 2012

18 hours ago | News

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In 2011, the National Institute of Health spent more than $6 billion on cancer research, compared to less than $480 million on Alzheimer’s disease research. Those numbers do not seem alarming until you learn there are over 5.4 million people in the United States...

SBi Founder and CEO Sees Continuing Growth in Small Bone and Joint Sector of Orthopedics Market

18 hours ago | News

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Revenues in the small bone and joint (or ‘extremities’) sector of the estimated $41 billion orthopedic devices market are forecast to continue outpacing growth rates in hip, knee and spine implants, according to Viscogliosi Brothers. LLC, (VB)...

Light-activatable Substances – a new Weapon in the Fight against Cancer

18 hours ago | News

Frankfurt – On February 4, World Cancer Day, the public attention for the fight against cancer will be raised once more: In Germany alone, 400.000 new instances of cancer are counted every year. The good news: More and more people affected can be helped effectively.

Olive Medical Launches Affordable True HD Surgical Camera System

18 hours ago | News

Salt Lake City, UT – Olive Medical Corporation of Salt Lake City, UT officially unveiled the industry’s first surgical camera system to provide world-class surgical imaging at a fraction of the price of today’s leading MIS HD camera systems. Using a combination of superior technology...

London meeting to provide unique insight into future of cardiovascular medicine

18 hours ago | News

For cardiovascular scientists around the world London 2012 not only signifies the Olympics but also another major international event – the second Frontiers in Cardiovascular Biology (FCVB) meeting. FCVB 2012 will show case the best and latest science from the cardiovascular arena...

Targeting tumors may help stop spread of breast, other cancers

19 hours ago | News

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Cancer that has spread from the site of an original tumor to other places in the body is often viewed as a death sentence. But if there are just a few of those secondary tumors, called metastases, some patients have a good chance of survival if treated with...

GE healthymagination Fund Invests in Check-Cap Ltd., Developer of Ingestible Imaging Capsule That Could Detect Colorectal Cancer

Feb 2 | News

NORWALK, Conn. & MILWAUKEE & ISFIYA, Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GE Capital and GE Healthcare, the financial services and healthcare divisions of General Electric Company, announced today an investment in Check-Cap, Ltd., a developer of an ingestible imaging capsule that may...

Toshiba’s Aquilion PRIME CT System Receives FDA Clearance

Feb 2 | News

TUSTIN, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc. announces the FDA clearance of the Aquilion™ PRIME CT system, the latest addition to the Aquilion CT product line and part of the “ONE Family” of CT scanners. With double-slice technology and coneXact...

Bovie Medical Corporation Receives 510 K Clearances to Market Patented J-Plasma Technology

Feb 2 | News

MELVILLE, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Bovie Medical Corporation, a manufacturer and marketer of electrosurgical products, today announced that the Company received 510k clearance from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market its J-Plasma™ handpiece...

Strongest Growth in US Peripheral Vascular Market to Come in Lower Extremity Indications

Feb 2 | News

TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--According to Millennium Research Group (MRG), the global authority on medical technology market intelligence, strong growth in the United States peripheral vascular (PV) market will come in lower-extremity indications, particularly through the...

YOLO Medical Inc. Announces YOLO Curve Receives Health Canada Approval

Feb 2 | News

VANCOUVER, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--YOLO Medical Inc. announced today that its newest laser device, the YOLO Curve, has received Health Canada Approval. The YOLO Curve is a non-invasive, non-thermal, low-level, red laser intended for use in body contouring...

TearScience Achieves FDA Clearance for Second Generation LipiFlow Thermal Pulsation System

Feb 2 | News

MORRISVILLE, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--TearScience, Inc., a privately-held medical device company, today announced that it has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance for its next generation product of its LipiFlow® Thermal Pulsation System, a medical device...

Haldor Advanced Technologies Commercially Introduces the New ORLocate Surgical Instrument Tracking System to North America

Feb 2 | News

TEL AVIV, Israel & BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Haldor Advanced Technologies announced today the commercial launch in North America of its ORLocate™ surgical instrument tracking and asset management system. ORLocate™ is the first commercially available system that uses...

Medtronic Announces First Patient Enrollment in Clinical Trial Assessing Guideline-Based Heart Failure Management in Primary Care Setting

Feb 2 | News

MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Medtronic, Inc. today announced the initiation and first patient enrollment in a clinical study that will evaluate gaps in the implementation of evidence-based treatment guidelines among chronic heart failure patients post-hospital discharge.

NLT SPINE Receives 510(k) Clearance for Its Lumbar Interbody Fusion Device, PROW FUSION

Feb 2 | News

KFAR SABA, Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NLT SPINE, a developer of Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery (MISS) products, today announced that its PROW FUSION™ device received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

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