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Topic: medical devices

Better stent surgery stats needed: heart doctors

Better stent surgery stats needed: heart doctors

May 10, 2013 4:15 pm by | 1 Comments

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Publicly reported statistics about how patients fare after a common heart procedure often are inaccurate, says a new study that suggests publishing the poor quality ... Read more
Boston Marathon victims to get free prosthetics

Boston Marathon victims to get free prosthetics

May 10, 2013 8:05 am by | 0 Comments

BALTIMORE _ A Linthicum, Md., firm is among several orthotics and prosthetics companies that will offer victims of the Boston Marathon bombing artificial limbs at no charge if their insurance ... Read more
A little help here! Ideas from payers about clinical areas ripe for innovation

A little help here! Ideas from payers about clinical areas ripe for innovation

May 10, 2013 8:04 am by | 3 Comments

What payer problem really needs fixing? The men representing UnitedHealthcare, Aetna and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota had quick answers to moderator Lisa Suennen‘s question. The group was discussing ... Read more
Wheelchair, meet mountain bike. MIT grads’ design handles rough terrain in developing countries (demo)

Wheelchair, meet mountain bike. MIT grads’ design handles rough terrain in developing countries (demo)

May 8, 2013 8:55 pm by | 1 Comments

Employing user-centered design hasn’t exactly been easy for Global Research Innovation & Technology (GRIT), a social enterprise startup that emerged out of the MIT Mobility Lab last year. The team ... Read more
7 things you should know about protecting IP under the updated patent laws

7 things you should know about protecting IP under the updated patent laws

May 8, 2013 7:09 pm by | 1 Comments

Passed in September 2011, the final phases of the America Invents Act went into effect in March. Cyrus Morton, a partner at the Minneapolis office of Robins, Kaplan, Miller & ... Read more
Medtech investors explain the nuances of evaluating reimbursement risk

Medtech investors explain the nuances of evaluating reimbursement risk

May 8, 2013 1:22 pm by | 0 Comments

It’s not as simple as “Do I have a code?”A “early stage vs. late stage” panel at today’s MedTech Investing conference in Minneapolis talked about what questions they ask when ... Read more
Beyond the activity tracker: 4 intriguing uses for wearable sensors in health research

Beyond the activity tracker: 4 intriguing uses for wearable sensors in health research

May 8, 2013 12:13 am by | 1 Comments

Wearable sensors are getting a lot of buzz in the consumer health world right now, but there’s a whole other world where the applications for body sensors are getting even ... Read more
A diabetes doctor’s wish list for mobile health

A diabetes doctor’s wish list for mobile health

May 7, 2013 4:09 pm by | 0 Comments

The daily testing and monitoring responsibilities for diabetes patients has made them, and their physicians, a prime target for mobile health products and services. But research suggests that even in ... Read more
FDA strengthens warnings on tanning beds to reduce cancer risk

FDA strengthens warnings on tanning beds to reduce cancer risk

May 6, 2013 2:33 pm by | 0 Comments

Washington (Reuters) - Tanning beds and sunlamps will be required to carry stronger warning labels under new regulations proposed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which is also recommending ... Read more
Work it: Fitbit Flex exercise wristband ships today at $100

Work it: Fitbit Flex exercise wristband ships today at $100

May 6, 2013 1:49 pm by | 0 Comments

Fitbit began shipping its Flex wristband today, finding its place among established wearable (but expensive) fitness devices in the market. Flex is Fitbit’s answer to big-name companies like Nike and ... Read more
Surgeon attitudes shifting about joint replacement in younger patients

Surgeon attitudes shifting about joint replacement in younger patients

May 6, 2013 1:11 pm by | 0 Comments

Obesity and the rising popularity of extreme sports are pushing down the average age of joint replacement patients. The other factor in this shift is the changing attitude of surgeons. ... Read more
FDA approves J&J sedation drug device for use during colonscopies

FDA approves J&J sedation drug device for use during colonscopies

May 4, 2013 11:06 am by | 0 Comments

(Reuters) - U.S. regulators have approved Johnson & Johnson's Sedasys system to sedate patients during colonoscopies without the need for a physician to monitor delivery of the injectable sedating agent, ... Read more
It’s smaller than a fingernail, but this needle- free Nanopatch could be the future of vaccines

It’s smaller than a fingernail, but this needle- free Nanopatch could be the future of vaccines

May 3, 2013 8:57 am by | 1 Comments

This picture shows just one of the intriguing element of a tiny, needle-free drug delivery patch being developed by a startup jointly based in Australia and Cambridge, Massachusetts. That, of ... Read more
How 3D body scanning will help you find a suit that actually fits

How 3D body scanning will help you find a suit that actually fits

May 2, 2013 10:39 am by | 0 Comments

Carlos Solorio, the co-founder of Tailor Truck parent company Arden Reed, says that this is a use case that 3D scanning was made for. ’3D scanning gives us accurate measurements ... Read more
Capital Royalty’s $805M fund could be a source of alternative funding for life science companies

Capital Royalty’s $805M fund could be a source of alternative funding for life science companies

May 2, 2013 10:15 am by | 0 Comments

Somewhere between venture funding and bank loans is a kind of investment that seems to fly under the radar, but apparently over the last several years has become increasingly popular ... Read more