Swedish telecoms analyst firm Berg Insight estimates that around 2.2 million patients worldwide were using a home monitoring service based on equipment with integrated connectivity at the end of 2011
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Now Olympus Sues Own Executives
In a dramatic twist, Olympus is suing its own executives deemed responsible for its widely reported accounting scandal.
Eucomed Weighs In With Statement On PIP
In a strongly worded press release issued on 9th January, relating to the ongoing scandal relating to PIP breast implants, European medtech industry body Eucomed seeks to make its position clear.
Digital Agenda for Europe’s “Virtual Liver” Helps Detect Liver Tumours
Scientists and surgeons from France, Germany, United Kingdom and Switzerland have developed a “virtual liver”, using EU research funding, which will help surgeons better plan and carry out tumour operations and ensure quicker patient recovery.
Motive, Trust, Evidence. This Week’s View From The Med
View From The Med, Week 1, 2012
Photoacoustic Device Could Mean Earlier, Faster, Cheaper Cancer Cell Detection
Commercial production of a new device that measures melanoma using photoacoustics, or laser-induced ultrasound, will soon be available to scientists and academia for cancer studies.
Smith & Nephew Spins Out Biologics Business
Smith & Nephew is to form a joint venture with Essex Woodlands, a specialist healthcare growth equity and venture capital firm, to create a US-based joint venture with the goal of advancing its Biologics and Clinical Therapy solutions.
PIP: One Bad Apple?
While we can all point fingers at the PIP breast implant situation as being a one-off, all parties must look in the mirror to ensure this is used as a lesson in how things can go wrong.
Hello 2012! Medlatest Signs Off 2011 With The Year’s Final “View From The Med”
medlatest reviews its ten identified themes of the year. Will they be the same this time next year?
PIP Breast Implants: How Did This Happen?
medlatest speculates about whether regulatory controls are tight enough when a company can substitute “mattress grade” silicone for that which was approved in the regulatory process.
New Weekly Email Function On Medlatest Site
medlatest launches new weekly email update service so readers can “filter in” the news they want.
FDA Wants Shrinkage Warning on Boston Scientific’s Newly Approved Promus Element™ Stent
Boston Scientific’s Promus Element Drug Eluting Stent was approved by FDA in late November and now the agency has demanded that the company includes a warning on its packaging about the risk of stent shrinkage.
FDA Approves AtriCure’s Synergy Ablation System For Atrial Fibrillation Treatment
First and Only System in the United States Approved to Treat Patients with Persistent and Long-Standing Persistent Atrial Fibrillation
Optical Sensor Aims To Revolutionise Blood Pressure Monitoring
UK Company Tarilian Laser Technologies Ltd.(TLT), located in Welwyn Garden City, UK, has developed a blood pressure monitoring technique based on an optical sensor that reportedly outperforms the current technology and may render it obsolete.
Technology Watch: Driveable Swimming Capsule Endoscope
Tel Aviv University researcher proposes MRI-controllable capsule endoscope to investigate digestive system
Infrascan Gains FDA Approval For Its Hand-Held Intracranial Haematoma Detection Device.
FDA permits marketing of Infrascanner 1000, the first hand-held device to aid in the detection of intracranial haematoma.