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Boston Scientific Announces FDA Approval Of New Leads For The Precision Plus™ Spinal Cord Stimulator System
Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX) announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval of two spinal cord stimulation (SCS) leads for use with its Precision Plus™ Spinal Cord Stimulator System, the world's first rechargeable SCS device for the management of chronic pain of the trunk and/or limbs...

Pioneer In 'Ultraslow-Motion' Imaging Receives American Chemical Society's Highest Honor
Ahmed H. Zewail, Ph.D., 1999 Chemistry Nobel Laureate and Linus Pauling Professor of Chemistry & Professor of Physics at the California Institute of Technology, has been named winner of the 2011 Priestley Medal by the American Chemical Society (ACS)...

Ortho Kinematics Launches Multi-Site Clinical Study Of KineGraph VMA™
Ortho Kinematics, a privately held spine diagnostics company focused on revolutionizing spine motion analysis, announced today that it has begun a multi-site clinical study of the KineGraph VMA™, and that the initial 23 patients have been enrolled. The study will help determine which types of patients are best evaluated with KineGraph VMA testing...

NRC, UOttawa Scientists First To Watch A Chemical Bond Break Using Molecule's Electrons
Scientists at the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) and the University of Ottawa (uOttawa) enjoyed a bird's eye view of a chemical bond as it breaks. The making and breaking of chemical bonds underlie the biochemical processes of life itself...

NICE Hopes To Help People With Motor Neurone Disease Breathe More Easily
People with motor neurone disease could live longer and more comfortably if their respiratory problems are identified and managed more effectively. This is what NICE is hoping to achieve from its new clinical guideline on the management of non-invasive mechanical ventilation, out yesterday (28 July)...

New York State Approves Quest Diagnostics' Fragile X Syndrome Test
An accurate, faster testing option to identify female carriers and other patients with genetic abnormalities that cause Fragile X Syndrome is now available to physicians in all fifty states with the recent approval in New York. Fragile X is the leading cause of inherited mental retardation and the most common known single gene cause of autism...

Texas Health Plano, Texas Back Institute Offer SpineAssist® Surgical Robot For Spine Surgeries
Fifteen-year-old Tressa Scott of Allen hasn't been able to stand up straight for more than a year until now. The Allen teenager grew an inch and a half and gained a dramatically straighter spine after undergoing a complex spinal surgery using a new type of surgical robot available at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Plano...

Implanted Wireless Glucose Sensor That Could Transform Management Of Diabetes Passes Crucial Test
American bioengineers have demonstrated that an implanted glucose sensor with potential to transform the management of diabetes has passed a crucial test: the device they developed worked continuously in animals for over a year, without showing signs of "tissue encapsulation" seen in trials with other similar devices...

Cytori Gains Stem Cell Device Approval In Europe For Breast Cancer Reconstruction And Soft Tissue Repair
Cytori Therapeutics (NASDAQ: CYTX) received expanded European approval (CE Mark) for its Celution® System, a medical device that extracts and separates stem and regenerative cells from a patient's own fat tissue...

Abbott's Enhanced ARCHITECTPLUS Systems Helps Labs Manage Surging Testing Demand Due To Aging Population
As hospital and clinical laboratories endure increasingly intense pressures to do more with less, they now face another challenge - rising demand for medical tests driven by an aging U.S. population that is expected to swell to more than 70 million in the next 20 years, an increase of more than 80 percent from today...

Northwest Hospital Doctor Performs First Da Vinci Robot Hand Surgery In America
Stacey Berner, M.D., medical director of the Hand Center at Northwest Hospital in Randallstown, MD, has become the first surgeon in America to perform a revolutionary new robotic hand surgery. Berner utilized the Da Vinci Surgical System to perform a ultra precise surgery. This system is an alternative to traditional open surgery or conventional laparoscopy surgery...

New Approach In Early Detection Of Atherosclerotic Changes In Vascular Systems
Cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease are the major causes of death in the world. Atherosclerotic plaque, the narrowing of blood vessels, causes audible turbulence in the bloodstream. Standard and electronic stethoscopes are designed to listen to heart and lung signals between 10-300 Hz...

Federal Agents Seize FastSize Extenders And FastSize EQM Erectile Quality Monitors
At the request of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, U.S. Marshals seized $346,954.43 worth of FastSize Extender devices and FastSize EQM Erectile Quality Monitor devices, as well as component parts used in the manufacture of the FastSize Extender. The FastSize Extender and the FastSize EQM Erectile Quality Monitor are manufactured and distributed by FastSize, LLC of Aliso Viejo, Calif...

MabCure, Inc. Announces Positive Results For New Ovarian Cancer Diagnostic Blood Test
Biotechnology company MabCure, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: MBCI) announced that a confirmatory study demonstrated the company's proprietary monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) successfully identified ovarian cancer in blood (94 percent accuracy) and with no false positives or cross-reactions with benign ovarian tumors or healthy blood...

DIATHERIX Laboratories Launches STD And HSV Test Panel
DIATHERIX Laboratories, adds a Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) panel and Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV) panel to its line up of highly sensitive, rapid response diagnostic panels. The HSV panel identifies herpes simplex viruses 1 and 2 and the STD panel identifies 10 sexually transmitted diseases simultaneously, many of which cannot be accurately identified by current testing methods...