Ins and Outs

March 19th, 2008 News

  • The Newest Vital Sign: Your Credit Score … [WSJ]
  • Stem-cell patents confirmed… [Nature]
  • Walgreen Continues March Into Health-Care Delivery … [WSJ]
  • Small manufacturers make transition to medical devices… [Plain Dealer]
  • Health-Care Fraud: Keep an Eye on the Small Fry… [WSJ]
  • Money trail in US medical devices investigation leads to Melbourne… [The Age]
  • Prosurgics and Adept Technology Collaborate to Develop Next Generation Surgical Robotic Systems… [Prosurgics]
  • Painless injection start-up Sindolor raises $1m… [Globes]
  • BIOTRONIK Concludes Enrollment of Home Monitoring Clinical Trial Ahead of Schedule: Randomized study of telemedicine in patients with cardiac devices… [BIOTRONIK]
  • FDA Takes Next Step in Establishing Overseas Presence… [FDA]
  • Conceived as a Telecom Company, OmniGuide is Now Bringing Laser Scalpels into Endoscopic Surgery… [Xconomy]
  • Philips pioneers wireless tracking system to improve service response time for mobile imaging systems… [Philips]
  • Modified Virus Vaccine Shows Promise in Mouse Model of Breast Cancer… [NIH]
  • Sabotage of Inflammation Chemistry in Injured Kidney May Trigger Wider Organ Failure… [Johns Hopkins]
  • Scrambled Entry Ticket May Fake Out Malaria Cell Gatekeeper… [Howard Hughes Medical Institute]
  • Molecular biology of sleep apnea could lead to new treatments… [University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine]
  • Researchers ID Behavioral Risk Factors for Head and Neck Cancers… [Johns Hopkins]
  • Shorter radiotherapy courses can benefit breast cancer patients… [Medical Research Council UK]
  • Rodent Study Finds Artificial Butter Chemical Harmful to Lungs… [NIH]
  • Beaming Jeep up… [The Engineer]
  • Compound removes radioactive material from power plant waste… [Argonne NL]
  • Mouse model for mesothelioma reproduces human disease… [Cell]
  • GE Demonstrates World’s First “Roll-to-Roll” Manufactured Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLEDs)… [GE]
  • Structure Reveals How Cells ‘Sugar-Coat’ Proteins… [Brookhaven National Laboratory]
  • Fatal flaw: Some doctors suggest that the modern definition of ‘death’ is wrong — and that the mistake is costing lives… [Boston Globe]
  • Futronic’s FS88 Fingerprint Scanner Detects Difference Between Live, Dead Fingers… [Gizmodo]

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