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Artificial Cervical Disc Surgery Cheaper Than Fusion... [WaPo, HealthDay News] Playgroups 'cut leukaemia risk' ... [BBC] LASIK Patients Tell Their Woes to FDA ... [WSJ] Largest study to date finds...

Started in Medgadget • 5 months ago • 0 responses
Absinthe Is Just Booze

We have some sad news for all the absinthe aficionados: you are just an alcohol lovers, and nothing else. The whole idea of supposed absinthe exceptionalism is up in flames, so to speak. The American...

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How Roses Handle Water

A team of chemists from Tsinghua University in Beijing, China figured out why tiny water droplets seem to get stuck to petals of red roses. Not unexpectantly, the mechanism, known as the Cassie...

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Salvia Divinorum's Mysteries Being Studied

Salvia divinorum, an unusual psychoactive sage described by a Brookhaven National Lab scientist as "probably one of the most potent hallucinogens known," is currently on brisk sale throughout lower...

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LimiTorr Volume Limiting Cerebral Spinal Fluid Drainage System

Integra LifeSciences is introducing its new CSF drainage system that features a shutoff valve that activates when a preset amount of fluid enters the bag, increasing the safety of the patient as well...

Started in Medgadget • 5 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: neurological surgery
OneTouch UltraLink Meter OK'ed by FDA

OneTouch® UltraLink™ Meter is a newly FDA approved glucometer from Medtronic, that features wireless information transfer to the company's MiniMed Paradigm® insulin pump via...

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Tags: medicine
Complimentary F&S eBroadcast

Frost & Sullivan will be hosting a complimentary eBroadcast on May 8 discussing the issues of managing risk during medical device development. Medgadget is proud to be a media sponsor of the...

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More Good News for The Baha System, a Bone Anchored (Osseointegrated) Implant

At the recently concluded 10th International Conference on Cochlear Implants and Other Implantable Auditory Technologies held in San Diego, California on April 10 - 12, a group of investigators from...

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Fluidhand: Prototype prosthetic device

Fluidhand, a new prosthetic device currently developed as a prototype, is being tested at the Orthopedic University Hospital in Heidelberg. In addition to being softer and more natural than other...

Started in Medgadget • 5 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: orthopedic surgery, prosthetics, rehab
Diabetic Gadgets by Sascha Morawetz

Diabetics continue to complain about the lack of visual design and ergonomic considerations put into the hundreds of devices that are available on the market, and looking back on previous decades...

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Tags: medicine, pediatrics