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FDA Pulls Back on Prescription Pistol
We received a statement this evening from Constitution Arms, the manufacturer of Palm Pistol, "an ergonomically novel self defense handgun designed for seniors, disabled and others with limited manual dexterity", that the FDA has rescinded its...
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Injectable Matrix to Help Regrow Damaged Bones
A new material developed by the University of Nottingham and RegenTec, a university spinoff, is designed to be injected into damaged bone, which then hardens into a strong scaffold as a medium for new bone tissue to grow over. The developers of the...
Genetics
New Fluorescent Imaging Compound Lights Up When Inside Viable Cells
A typical problem with fluorescent imaging compounds is that once activated, they fluoresce regardless of where they find themselves, smearing the image as they diffuse through the body. Now a research team, led by Hisataka Kobayashi, M.D., Ph.D.,...
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Text Messaging Surgical Instructions...It's "Easy! Good Luck"
Médecins Sans Frontières surgeon Dr. David Nott recently performed a life-saving amputation of a young Congonese boy's gangrenous left arm after receiving step-by-step text messaging instructions from a colleague. The young boy was...
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Colon Cancer and Osteoporosis...What's The Link?
Although there may be more than one link between osteoporosis and colon cancer, the newest association is that CT Colonography can screen for both diseases at the same time. From the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) 2008 conference a...
Medicine
Predicting The Upcoming Electrical Brain Storm
Here's an interesting report from WFMY News about research coming from the University of Chicago Hospitals where scientists are developing a mobile, wireless EEG system that can detect oncoming...
Radiology
Radiologists Making an "About-Face"
As you could have seen from the many articles this year's RSNA conference has generated on this blog, radiology is definitely on the leading-edge in many areas of medical diagnostics and therapeutics. So why the "About-Face"? Well, it's just another...
Diagnostics
Bio-Seeq System IDs Microbes with LATE-PCR
Smiths Detection, part of Smiths Group, plc, is developing a portable pathogen identification system based on technology called LATE PCR (Linear After The Exponential Polymerase Chain Reaction). From The Engineer Online: It is based on a special...
Neurosurgery
