Technology

Andrew technologies claims its solution to lipoplasty avoids the need for traumatic cutting of fat, using as it does its clever liquefaction technology to selectively target fat cells.

A little over four months after gaining FDA clearance Sanofi’s Glucose meter, which interfaces with an iPhone, is now commercially available through selected stores in the US. It’s been available for a while in most of Europe.

Medical Devices industry, technology and clinical happenings from the week just passed.

Covidien and GE Healthcare will both benefit from their newly formalised alliance, which looks like another example of a device market which is employing what we could call pragmatic synergies to future proof itself.

Echo Therapeutics is trumpeting clinical results from its transdermal glucose monitoring system which has been performed at Tufts Medical Center, Boston Mass. The study concerns use in an intensive care setting and the investigating clinicians seem impressed.

France’s eDevice has worked with US company Freescale Semiconductors to develop its HealthGO platform which it hopes will form the core of many companies’ remote monitoring systems.

Single study shows novel hydrogel scaffold results in better wounds. Product gets CE mark. Should it really be that simple?

Kensey Nash Corporation is something of an OEM success story with a growing reputation in the field of extracellular matrices. The company’s certainly not hiding its light under bushel as it sees the first patient implants of its new Meso Biomatrix™ Surgical Mesh.

Another fascinating study shows a positive effect of stem cell infusion in post-infarct patients when compared with standard of care control group.

Smiths Medical’s new version of its CADD®-Solis system now combines PCA and Programmed Intermittent Bolus (PIB) deliveries to labour analgesia and post-operative pain management.

Nanotechnology to combine HA and Growth factors could be the best coating solution for inducing osteo-integration of hip and knee prostheses, trauma products, dental implants.

Coating devices with a hydrophilic polymer can make it easier to insert into the body. German vascular company Jotec GmbH has entered into an agreement with Hydromer Inc. to use its coating solution.

Femtosecond laser technology is fairly new to the ophthalmic surgical profession, especially in the US. Now FDA has cleared Abbott’s device for the creation of curved incisions in corneal surgery including cataract access.

Top universities really do churn out some brilliant work. In this case Stanford researchers have published on the use of coated gold nanoparticles which selectively find cancer cells and aid in their isolation for treatment, potentially improving accuracy with the benefit of minimising collateral damage and ensuring no cancer remains.

This new CO2 Laser solution from OmniGuide is claimed to improve surgical precision, access and control.

Stereotactic Radiosurgery techniques are at the forefront of events at this week’s AANS meeting. Varian Medical Systems Inc is demonstrating its wares in what is becoming the gold standard treatment option in specific brain and spinal tumors.