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A medical device is a product which is used for medical purposes in patients, in diagnosis, therapy or surgery. Medical devices act by physical, mechanical, thermal, physico-chemical or chemical means. Medical devices include a wide range of products varying in complexity and application. Examples include tongue depressors, medical thermometers, blood sugar meters, total artificial hearts, fibrin scaffolds, stents and X-ray machines.
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Inhalaltion Drug Delivery: 11-12 September - Berlin, Germany
LONDON, May 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The potential of the pulmonary route as a non-invasive administration for systemic delivery of therapeutic agents has been receiving undeniable attention with the...
Life Spine® Announces Continuing Offshore and International Growth
Life Spine, a medical device company that markets products for the surgical treatment of spinal disorders, announced today the company is rapidly expanding its footprint outside o...
Cardiovascular Systems Presents New Late-Breaking Coronary Results at EuroPCR Conference
ORBIT II trial met primary endpoints treating patient population in which 99.3% of subjects had severely calcified lesions 30-day freedom from...
Tufts CSDD Study Finds Adoption of Adaptive Clinical Trial Designs Is Increasing
Report Shows Growing Acceptance by Pharmaceutical Companies and Regulatory Agencies Aptiv Solutions, a biopharmaceutical and medical device development services company...
FDA Helps Women Get Heart Smart
FDA's Office of Women's Health offers many resources to educate women about the safe use of FDA-approved drugs and devices for the treatment and prevention of heart disease. This includes information...
Baby's life saved with groundbreaking 3D printed device from U-M that restored his breathing
ANN ARBOR, Mich., May 23, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Every day, their baby stopped breathing, his collapsed bronchus blocking the crucial flow of air to his lungs. April and Bryan Gionfriddo...
Covidien and Mallinckrodt to Present at Deutsche Bank Conference
Covidien (NYSE: COV), a leading global provider of healthcare products, will present at the Deutsche Bank 38th Annual Health Care Conference in Boston on Wednesday and Thur...
BioElectronics and Pulsed Shortwave Therapy Make Progress
FREDERICK, Md., May 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- BioElectronics Corporation (OTC Pink: BIEL), the maker of very effective, safe consumer medical devices, comments on the FDA panel meeting for non-the...
CASMED to Present at the 2nd Annual Marcum MicroCap Conference
BRANFORD, Conn., May 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- CAS Medical Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CASM) (CASMED), a leader in medical devices for non-invasive patient monitoring, today announced that Thoma...
Medtronic's In.Pact Falcon Drug-Eluting Balloon Yields Positive Outcomes in Small Coronary Arteries
Presented at EuroPCR, One-Year Data from BELLO Study Show Durability of Clinical Results Following Treatment of De Novo Lesions with Novel Angioplasty Device PARIS -- May 23, 2013 -- One-year data...
Events
Introduction to the Medical Device Directives
Gain A Comprehensive Understanding of the Regulatory Requirements
Dry Powder Inhalers - Annual International Conference and Dinner
Dry Powder Inhalers - Annual International Conference and Dinner
Medical Device Summer School: From Concept to CE Marking
Medical Device Summer School: From Concept to CE Marking
Companies
ALung Technologies, Inc. is commercializing artificial lung devices for the treatment of acute and chronic respiratory disorders. The company's Hemolung System, designed to replace or supplement the u...
Titan Spine, LLC is a surface technology company focused on the design and manufacture of interbody fusion devices for the spine. The company is committed to advancing the science...
Cerapedics is a privately-held medical device company focused on developing and commercializing novel osteobiologic products based on its proprietary anorganic bone mineral (ABM)...
Defymed is a spin -off of the “Centre Europeen d’etude du Diabete” (CeeD) which has been working on the conception of a bio-artificial pancreas since 1996. This work was ca...
Nordion Inc. (TSX: NDN) (NYSE: NDZ) is a global health science company that provides market-leading products used for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of disease. We are a...
Devon Medical, Inc. (www.devonmedicalproducts.com) is an ISO 13485 certified medical device manufacturer, designer, and distributor. Since 2005, we have developed innovative and h...
Johnson & Johnson is the world's most comprehensive and broadly-based manufacturer of health care products, as well as a provider of related services, for the consumer, pharmaceutical and me...
Reverse Medical Corporation is a privately-held medical device company focused on expanding the endovascular management of acute stroke and neurovascular disease. The technology p...
Lombard Medical Technologies PLC
Lombard Medical Technologies PLC is a global medical technology company focussed on providing innovative endovascular products which broaden clinicians’ treatment options and opportunities for...
Nanostim, an early-stage medical device start-up company based in Milpitas, Calif., is also backed by InterWest Partners, US Venture Partners, Emergent Medical Partners and Life S...
Clinical Trials
Genitourinary Symptoms With Levonorgestrel Releasing Intrauterine Systems
The main purpose of the study was to evaluate the efficacy of Levonorgestrel Releasing Intrauterine devices (LNR-IUD) on genitourinary symptoms in patients with abnormal uterine bleeding....
Over 1 million people in the UK suffer from untreatable visual impairment, many of them elderly. The major complaint of visually impaired people is their inability to carry out simple task...
Randomized Clinical Trial Comparing Coronary Bypass Grafting With or Without Cardiopulmonary Bypass
Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) is a well established treatment modality for patients with coronary artery disease. For 30 years now CABG operations have been performed with the hel...
Proton Pump Inhibitor Therapy for Mild to Moderate Obstructive Sleep Apnea
Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) is common in modern society, affecting up to 5% of working middle-aged adults in the United States. Obesity is the number one risk factor for the development...
Sacral Nerve Stimulation Therapy for the Treatment of Chronic Fecal Incontinence
Fecal incontinence (FI) is a difficulty in storing gas, liquid stool or solid stool (bowel movement) in order to expel it at a proper time and place. Patients who suffer from FI may exper...
Comparison of Humidification Devices During Non Invasive Ventilation, in Acute Respiratory Failure
Comparison of humidification devices during non invasive ventilation, in acute respiratory failure. The hypothesis was, due to dead space, lower humidification, a reduced efficiency of th...
The purpose of this study is to demonstrate that biventricular pacing (BiV) and left univentricular (left ventricular [LV] only) pacing are safe and effective for cardiac resynchronization...
The purpose of the study is to evaluate the benefit of interventricular (V-V) delay optimization in reducing the non-responder rate in patients with cardiac resynchronization defibrillator...
Accelerated Partial Breast Irradiation Following Lumpectomy for Breast Cancer
To determine whether an accelerated course of radiotherapy delivered to the lumpectomy cavity plus margin using IORT as a single dose, intracavitary brachytherapy with the MammoSite device...
MODULA-Study: Modul 10: Benefit of CRT-Therapy in CRT-Patients With QRS-Complex of 120 - 150 Ms
The purpose of this study is to compare the benefit of cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT)-therapy in patients with a QRS-complex of 120-150 ms to patients with a QRS-complex of > 150...
PubMed Articles
Smartphone use and acceptability among clinical medical students: a questionnaire-based study.
Smartphones are becoming increasingly common in both personal and professional spheres. These devices have many features which can be successfully harnessed in healthcare, including rapid access to in...
Coherent confinement of plasmonic field in quantum dot-metallic nanoparticle molecules.
Interaction of a hybrid system consisting of a semiconductor quantum dot and a metallic nanoparticle (MNP) with a laser beam can replace the intrinsic plasmonic field of the MNP with a coherently norm...
A novel micro-solid-phase extraction (μ-SPE) device coupled with ultra-high performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (UPLC-MS-MS) was established to determine five typical estrogens...
High speed Deans switch for low duty cycle comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography.
A new high-speed valve-based modulator has been designed and tested for use in comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography (GC×GC). The modulator is a Deans switch constructed from two micro-vol...
We firstly introduce a facile method for the site-specific direct physical exfoliation of few-layer graphene sheets from cheap and easily enlargeable graphite grown on a Ni foil using an optimized pol...
PURPOSE: To measure the adherence and persistence of patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) initiating prasugrel after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). METHODS: Using the Thomson Reuters...
Evaluation and Management of Acquired Methemoglobinemia Associated with Topical Benzocaine Use.
Benzocaine is a widely used topical oropharyngeal anesthetic and has been reported to cause methemoglobinemia. We discuss benzocaine-induced methemoglobinemia and review the causes, presentation, and...
Value of unique device identification in the digital health infrastructure.
INTRODUCTION AND HYPOTHESIS: After SNM implantation the most significant complication that can occur is wound infection, which typically requires removal of all components. Such infections have been r...
Videos
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Medical and Biotech [MESH] Definitions
Metered Dose Inhalers
A medical device used to ensure the proper amount of medication is delivered for inhalation. Usually, it is a small aerosol canister placed in a plastic holder. When the canister is pressed, a calibrated amount of drug is released.
Inhalation Spacers
A variety of devices used in conjunction with METERED DOSE INHALERS. Their purpose is to hold the released medication for inhalation and make it easy for the patients to inhale the metered dose of medication into their lungs.
Auditory Brain Stem Implants
Multi-channel hearing devices typically used for patients who have tumors on the COCHLEAR NERVE and are unable to benefit from COCHLEAR IMPLANTS after tumor surgery that severs the cochlear nerve. The device electrically stimulates the nerves of cochlea nucleus in the BRAIN STEM rather than the inner ear as in cochlear implants.
Auditory Brain Stem Implantation
Surgical insertion of an electronic hearing device (AUDITORY BRAIN STEM IMPLANTS) with electrodes to the cochlea nucleus in the BRAIN STEM rather than to the inner ear as in COCHLEAR IMPLANTATION.
Cellular Phone
Analog or digital communications device in which the user has a wireless connection from a telephone to a nearby transmitter. It is termed cellular because the service area is divided into multiple "cells." As the user moves from one cell area to another, the call is transferred to the local transmitter.
