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Vasovist, a Vascular MRI Contrast Agent, Meets FDA Requirements

Epix Pharmaceuticals Inc., an Israeli firm that has developed Vasovist (gadofosveset trisodium), a novel MRI contrast agent, has announced that its product "has achieved positive results from the...

Started in Medgadget • 6 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: radiology, vascular surgery
OrthoSim, an Orthopedic Implant Simulator

An orthopedic computer simulator has been created by European scientists that may help implant surgeons to more precisely select implants for patients on an individual basis. The simulator takes...

Started in Medgadget • 6 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: orthopedic surgery
Health World Web: A Health 2.0 Platform

Health World Web, Inc., a Jacksonville, FL company is trying to create a new, more interactive platform for patients as well as medical professionals. It offers help, emotional support, non-medical...

Started in Medgadget • 6 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: net news
Possible Link Between Viruses and Lung Cancer Shown

Researchers from University of Louisville, Kentucky and Soroka Medical Center in Beer Sheva, Israel have presented two papers at the 1st European Lung Cancer Conference showing more evidence that...

Started in Medgadget • 6 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: in the news...
Scientists Create Cardiac Cells From Stem Cells

Scientists from the McEwen Centre for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Toronto created mesoderm heart progenitor cells from embryonic stem cells. Such a progenitor line is responsible for...

Started in Medgadget • 6 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: genetics
The Social Ladder Is Really In Your Head

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health discovered how the brain seems to exhibit signs of hard wiring when reacting to events within the social hierarchy, like seeing one's superiors. To...

Started in Medgadget • 6 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: in the news...
A Cigarette Pack A Day Keeps The Doctor Away?

A Chinese man, able to afford only part of his surgical treatment, was not able to cover the final costs of the treatment, leaving a 7 by 3 inch open wound in his chest which he's been keeping...

Started in Medgadget • 6 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: not funny
Trigger in Heparin Deaths Identified

An international group of investigators identified oversulphated chondroitin sulphate, a contaminant found in vials of heparin from China linked to a recent series of deaths, as a triggering agent....

Started in Medgadget • 6 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: in the news...
Ins and Outs

There will be no posts today, as we have to recover from overnight clinical duties (you know, our real jobs). We appreciate you stopping by, and we will see you here tomorrow. Below are some of the...

Started in Medgadget • 6 months ago • 0 responses
Mind Reading for Robotic Limb Control

Japanese scientists are continuing to push for a cyborg future, as researchers at Osaka University are attaching electrode sensors directly to the human brain, to study how the electrical activity...

Started in Medgadget • 6 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: neurology, rehab