Recalls of medical devices hit a 2-year low during the 2nd quarter, with nearly half the number of units pulled back compared with the same period last year, according to a report from Stericycle.
Atrial fibrillation (AF) causes uneven blood flow, which results in subtle changes in facial skin color. Researchers were able to use that to diagnose AF patients in a small, pilot study by employing video of a person’s face in conjunction with a software analysis of skin color.
A recently approved iPad app has been put to use to measure blood loss during cesarean section births. The app is being used as a substitute for evaluation techniques, such as sponge weighing, in cesarean surgeries at Magee-Womens Hospital in Pittsburgh, PA.
Researchers develop self-powered pacemaker system based on automatic wristwatch
The microfluidic instrument employs sound waves to sort cells.
Swiss researchers use nasal septum cells to create cartilage to repair knees
The US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) is expanding a new pilot program that it hopes will make medical device submissions a lot less complicated and a lot more like filing taxes using TurboTax.
Researchers are developing an implantable sensor for glaucoma that allows intraocular pressure to be read by a smartphone camera. Diagnosis and monitoring now relies on a trip to the ophthalmologist and a reading of intraocular pressure that can vary widely. The implant/smartphone combination is expected to allow at-home monitoring and a series of readings that could improve diagnosis and monitoring of glaucoma patients.
Sciientists have linked a single enzyme to the development of diabetes, a finding that could help develop new treatments for the more than 120 million Americans that have diabetes or pre-diabetes.
Bees give us honey, painful stings…and cancer-fighting drugs, if scientists can figure out how to extract and deliver the venom’s cancer-fighting compounds. University of Illinois Bioengineering Professor Dipanjan Pan says he has developed nanoparticles that can carry insect toxins directly to tumors, sparing the rest of the body from nasty side effects, including damage to the heart, bleeding underneath the skin and unwanted clotting.