A titanium rod implanted inside a bone can improve limb-lengthening procedures that are used to prevent the need for limb amputation, a study in the journal Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research co-published by Loyola University orthopedic surgeon Dr. Mitchell Bernstein found.
Amid increased demand for noninvasive prenatal genetic tests, a new study shows that the tools can do more than pinpoint fetal abnormalities, turning up previously undiagnosed cancer in mothers.
The FDA has an ambitious plan to publish guidance on a number of topics, including medical device interoperability and unique device identifiers.
The Indian government is forging ahead with its plan to put price controls on medical devices, the most controversial element of an array of reforms designed to bolster the use and manufacture of devices in India.
The amendment of the medical research bill was inspired by controversy over power morcellators.
Catheters designed to deliver chemotherapy are often coated in silver to provide an antibacterial coating. However, scientists at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology found that this silver actually breaks down chemotherapy drugs and can release a harmful gas, hydrogen fluoride in the process. The researchers expect that graphene, which is a nonreactive substance, might be a better catheter coating.
The former owner of a medical supply company was sentenced to 97 months in prison for fraudulently billing more than $3.5 million to Medicare and Medi-Cal for unnecessary power wheelchairs.
The most common weight-loss surgery is the sleeve gastrectomy, in which two-thirds of the stomach is removed to create a pouch that is roughly the size and shape of a banana without touching the intestines. Medtronic has come out with a surgical tool, the GastriSail gastric positioning system, that it says will enable surgeons to consistently size the pouch, as well as to decompress the pouch and test for leaks.
Stakeholders including the Mayo Clinic, American Association of Orthopaedic Surgeons and The Pew Charitable Trusts broadly approve of proposed federal electronic health record certification criteria that encourage the use of unique device identification data, but think the regulations can be made even more supportive of UDI.
A study in The Journal of the American Medical Association used its NephroCheck diagnostic of acute kidney injury (AKI) to demonstrate that the life-threatening condition can be kept in check by what’s known as remote ischemic preconditioning.