Clinical/Educational

UK’s Bradford Royal Infirmary has embarked on a much-publicised evaluation of Verathon’s Heartscape Vest in the hope that it will fulfill its promise of achieving early and efficient diagnosis of heart conditions including heart attack.

Engineering Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute create smart sensors which can wirelessly transmit data from Orthopaedic surgery site, but we can’t quite see the applications they see.

Initial results of ReCor’s REDUCE First-In-Man clinical study presented at “TRenD 2012” transcatheter renal denervation scientific meeting as company gains CE mark for its PARADISE™ system.

Transdermal glucose monitoring future style, as well as potential for drug delivery from this new technology.

St Jude is pretty bullish about FFR measurement as a diagnostic tool in assessing coronary artery disease, based on favourable outcome from previous studies. It’s now supporting a country-specific evaluation of the cost effectiveness of an FFR-guided intervention strategy for patients with multivessel coronary artery disease in Japan, China, India, Korea, and Australia.

Freeze dried heart valve material holds promise as a scaffold. Researchers have investigated different techniques in order to optimise the resultant material.

New paper compares CE vs FDA and concludes both need a makeover.

Expensive Proton Beam therapy availability is limited this side of the pond. For once we don’t advocate speeding adoption, but a lack of evidence doesn’t seem to have slowed demand for its use as a prostate treatment in USA.

Fiendishly clever scientists from San Diego have described a microrocket, which would exploit low pH conditions to elicit drive from a chemical reaction. Suggested applications on a postcard please.

Is AF Ablation surgery a way of treating the symptoms of atrial fibrillation or the underlying natural history? Refreshing opinion piece from a US cardiologist.

MIT Spin-out company MicroCHIPS has developed an implantable drug delivery device, which is currently targeting delivery of teriparatide in post menopausal osteoporotic women.

Augmented reality could be used to guide non-medics in performing ever more complex procedures when there’s no doc around. Like those frequent occasions when you’re in space for example.

Clinical results from a study on the use of flow diversion in peripheral neurological vessels suggest the therapeutic solution has a place.

New research may pave the way for all-metal hip prostheses to rise phoenix-like from the ashes.

Are 25% of European medics really using ipads in their professional lives? This report says so.

St Jude Medical’s fighting talk in response to NEJM editorial suggesting its surveillance procedures are lacking and that Durata may suffer the same fate as its older brothers.