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DaVinci Robot For Treating Thyroid Cancer

DaVinci Robot For Treating Thyroid Cancer

Thyroid cancer is a disease which affects 37,000 patients in the US each year according to the National Cancer Institute. It affects female patients more commonly. In fact the incidence in females can be as high as three to one. Patients affected by thyroid cancer are usually younger, in age group 30 to 55 years. [...]

Circular External Fixator To Treat Charcot Foot Disease

Circular External Fixator To Treat Charcot Foot Disease

Charcot foot is a medical condition which occurs in patients having significant nerve damage (neuropathy). This nerve damage limits the ability of the patient to feel pain when foot is injured due to bumping or overdoing an exercise program. As a result of inability to feel the pain, the patient continues to use the injured [...]

Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography

Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography

Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) is a nuclear medicine tomographic imaging technique which uses gamma rays for detection of cancer or infection. It is different from other imaging techniques as it is able to provide true three dimensional image data of cross-sectional slices through the human body using tomographic reconstruction algorithm to edit images [...]

SoluLink Biomedical Company

SoluLink Biomedical Company

20 July 2010

Bioconjugation is the linking of two biomolecules to form a hybrid, the bioconjugate, that retains the properties of each individual component yet yielding a single entity with two complementary functions, i.e. in 1 + 1 = 3 synergy. (From Why SoluLink White Paper) SoluLink is a biomedical company that develops high-performance products to link biomolecules [...]

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Tekmira to Develop RNAi Therapeutic Against Ebola Virus

Tekmira to Develop RNAi Therapeutic Against Ebola Virus

19 July 2010

Tekmira pharmaceutical specializes in the advancement of therapeutic agents in the field of gene silencing, known as RNA interference (RNAi). Tekmira has received a $150 million contract to develop RNAi Therapeutic against Ebula virus. Out of this money $34.7 million of it is disbursed during the initial phase over the next three years. “This work [...]

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Littman Electronic Stethoscopes

Littman Electronic Stethoscopes

09 June 2010

Stethoscopes have been used by doctors since long ago to diagnose different ailments and body disorders. Until recently, doctors used acoustic stethoscopes to examine patients. A Littman electronic stethoscope is bundled with a lot of advanced features. This electronic stethoscope receives acoustic waves from the body, and converts them into electrical signals. Read the whole [...]

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Drug Delivery Companies

03 June 2009

Drug delivery is the method or process of administering a pharmaceutical compound to achieve a therapeutic effect in humans or animals. Here are some of the largest drug delivery companies: Apotex Meliorum Technologies, Inc. Epigenesis Pharmaceuticals Incara Pharmaceuticals In future posts I will go more in depth about each of the above four companies.

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The Equipment Review

02 June 2009

Today I was browsing biomedical news and resources around the web and came across a website that I thought is worth letting you guys know about. The website (ebme.co.uk) is a forum for medical and clinical biomedical equipment reviews. The reviews are made by members and users. It is a great website to bookmark.

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GE Healthcare To Facilitate Cardiovascular Imaging

30 May 2009

GE Healthcare and LightLab Imaging Inc.(Westford, MA), a market leader in optical imaging, have announced a collaboration that enables improved workflow between GE Healthcare’s Innova cardiovascular X-ray system and LightLab’s C7-XR optical coherence tomography (OCT) system. Both the C7-XR and Innova systems were featured last week at the annual meeting of EuroPCR, the official congress [...]

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