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November 30th, 2009 at 10:29 AM
Telemedicine

Wound patients typically get lots of care at home, either from visiting nurses or from home care providers. Now technology is coming to even this forgotten medical market. And not surprisingly, it is mobile phone technology with backing from a big...
November 30th, 2009 at 9:54 AM
News

An interdisciplinary team of European scientists has been studying the potential value of low-temperature atmospheric plasma for applications in medicine. One particular example is a device developed at Max-Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial...
November 30th, 2009 at 9:22 AM
Urology

ProUroCare Medical out of Eden Prairie, MN has filed an application with the FDA to receive approval for the firm's prostate analysis tool. The ProUroScan device uses what's known as "elasticity imaging technology" to measure the stiffness of the...
November 30th, 2009 at 12:47 AM
News

We received more than a dozen entries in this year's medical sci-fi writing contest. The stories were anonymized with the names stripped off before being passed on to our judges for review. The judges have this week to read and opine on which...
November 30th, 2009 at 12:45 AM
Medicine

Amy Tenderich of DiabetesMine recently met a representative of Integrity Applications, an Ashkelon, Israel firm that has developed the GlucoTrack non-invasive blood glucose monitor. The device, which we profiled about four years ago when it was...
November 30th, 2009 at 12:29 AM
Informatics

Ziosoft out of Redwood City, CA has released a freely downloadable software package for visualizing DICOM 3.0-compatible images from CT, MR, PET, ultrasound, and X-ray devices. The zioTerm application provides both 2D and 3D rendering and is meant...
November 30th, 2009 at 12:02 AM
Informatics

At the RSNA Annual Meeting in Chicago this week, Barco will be showing off two new medical monitors that it has just announced. The Coronis Fusion 10MP is a 30 inch display that can also work as two independent side-by-side 5 megapixel panels. ...
November 25th, 2009 at 12:33 PM
Net News

ZOLL Medical Corporation has released a new iPhone application designed to help in assisting people perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Of course because it has no FDA approval (see our recent post on the regulatory environment for mobile...
November 25th, 2009 at 11:19 AM
Emergency Medicine

Remedium Technologies won first prize in the Most Promising Security Idea category of the Global Security Challenge 2009 for their shaving cream-like foam that can stop bleeding. The foam incorporates chitosan, a natural low-cost hemostatic...
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