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2010 NIST Mobile Microrobotics Challenge Invites Contestants
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is again inviting participants to next year:|:s nanosoccer competition. Designed to showcase micromechanical technologies that might become useful ...
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Ultra High Resolution Video Used In Laparoscopic Surgery
Our good friend Dr. Steven Palter has just performed the world:|:s first ultra high definition laparoscopic surgery using the Red One 4K camera. The imagery, at four times the resolution of standard high ...
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Lap-Pak, a Student Designed Abdominal Retractor, On Road to Market Realization
A device developed by clinicians and students at Johns Hopkins University to move bowels out of the way in laparotomies has been licensed to Seguro Surgical, a Columbia, Maryland company. The Lap-Pak ...
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AED Location Database Points to Nearest Life Saving Device
Automatic external defibrillators (AED:|:s) are becoming more common in public places like airports, theaters, and sports stadiums. To be effective, you must quickly find the nearest AED while in an unfamiliar ...
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A Quick Intro to Synthetic Biology
Paul McFedries is profiling the field of synthetic biology in the latest IEEE Spectrum. This newly emerging science that has great potential, among other things, for regenerative medicine.
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Hologic's Cervical Cancer Screening System ThinPrep Gets EU OK
Hologic out of Bedford, Massachusetts has announced that the firm:|:s ThinPrep® Integrated Imager has received the European CE Mark, and that will allow the sale of the device across the continent. The ...
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Nanobees Sting Tumors to Death
We have known for many years that melittin, an ingredient in bee venom, is a poison to tumor cells. Development of therapeutic uses of the substance has been stymied by the fact that melittin does damage ...
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Carrier: A New Concept for Wheelchair Design
Students at the University of Applied Arts Vienna have developed a novel powered wheelchair design that may overcome some of the limitations of contemporary models. For a start, the chair can glide over ...
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Covidien Announces Highlights from Investor Meeting
Covidien, a leading global provider of healthcare products, held a meeting for the investment community today where it highlighted the strengths, strategies and innovations that are expected to drive ...
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Johnson & Johnson and Elan Corporation plc Announce Closing of Transaction Related to Alzheimer's Immunotherapy Program and Equity Investment
Johnson & Johnson and Elan Corporation plc announced that JANSSEN Alzheimer Immunotherapy, a newly formed subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, has completed the acquisition of substantially all of ...
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Siemens Partners with Leading Turkish Value Added Reseller For Soarian MedSuite
Siemens has entered into a value-added reseller agreement with leading Turkish healthcare solutions company, Simeks Tibbi Sistemler Sanayi ve Ticaret Anonim Sirketi, to sell Soarian MedSuite, Siemens’ ...
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Giving Swine Flu Drug by IV Could Save Lives
A 22-year-old cancer patient battling for her life after contracting H1N1 swine flu recovered fully after doctors took the unorthodox approach of giving her the antiviral drug Relenza intravenously.The ...
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Vendor Notebook - eClinicalWorks to deliver EMRs to prisons
eClinicalWorks, based in Westborough, Mass., has announced that Correctional Medical Services, Inc., a provider of health services for prisons and jails throughout the country, will implement the company’s ...
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Abbott Again Named One of the 'Best Places to Launch a Career' by BusinessWeek
For the fourth consecutive year, Abbott has been named one of the "50 Best Places to Launch a Career" by BusinessWeek magazine. The list highlights companies that excel at offering a superior workplace ...
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Philips launches latest advances in technololgy to help detect heart disease in women
Royal Philips Electronics is to unveil its latest advance in heart disease detection, the PageWriter TC50 cardiograph, which uses gender-differentiated criteria to assist in the diagnosis of heart disease ...
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