St Jude releases cyber updates for heart devices after US probe supriya10 Jan 2017 11:32 AM ISTAbbott Laboratories (ABT.N) moved to protect patients with its St. Jude heart implants against possible cyber attacks, releasing a software patch that...
Indian startup launches wearable devices for fitness supriya kashyap kashyap9 Jan 2017 9:45 AM ISTWashington : Aimed at changing the regular fitness regimes with a combination of new-age thinking and technology, an Indian startup has announced the...
Masimo launches advanced monitoring technologies in India supriya kashyap kashyap3 Jan 2017 2:27 PM ISTBengaluru : Masimo announced the launch and availability of the Rad-97™ Pulse-CO Oximeter®* and Next Generation SedLine®* Brain Function Monitoring in...
Pacemakers can get hacked warns FDA, issues guidelines supriya kashyap kashyap29 Dec 2016 9:00 AM ISTThe U.S. government issued rules for addressing cyber vulnerabilities in medical devices, providing manufacturers with guidelines for fixing security...
SynkroMax Biotech sings MoU for life saving implant SynkroScaff savita thakur thakur29 Dec 2016 9:00 AM ISTCHENNAI: Asia's first life saving Implant "SynkroScaff", a Tissue Engineered Bovine Pericardial Patch for critical cardiovascular patients is on its...
USFDA approves tissue expander breast reconstruction after mastectomy supriya kashyap kashyap23 Dec 2016 12:38 PM ISTThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration allowed marketing of a new tissue expander system for soft tissue expansion in two-stage breast reconstruction...
Stents under Price Control; Government amends Act Meghna A Singhania22 Dec 2016 12:41 PM ISTNew Delhi: Stents prices will soon have a maximum limit, as the government is moving ahead in its endeavour to bring them under the national list of...
FDA approves device to replace fingerstick testing for diabetes treatment supriya kashyap kashyap22 Dec 2016 12:07 PM ISTThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration expanded the approved use of Dexcom’s G5 Mobile Continuous Glucose Monitoring System to allow for replacement of...
Manufacturing an India specific line of medical devices will increase cost to patient, MTaI board supriya kashyap kashyap22 Dec 2016 11:12 AM ISTNew Delhi : At a board meeting, members of the Medical Technology Association of India (MTaI) discussed the forecast for 2017 for the medical...
34 percent medical equipment across country dysfunctional: Health Ministry supriya kashyap kashyap21 Dec 2016 12:38 PM ISTNew Delhi : A massive exercise to map the inventory of all bio-medical equipment, including their functionality status, has revealed that 13-34 per...
FDA approves first autologous cellularized scaffold for the repair of cartilage defects of the knee savita thakur thakur14 Dec 2016 9:09 AM ISTThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Maci (autologous cultured chondrocytes on porcine collagen membrane) for the repair of symptomatic,...
GE Healthcare selected as preferred radiology partner for IUIH Medicities being set up across 11 states in India savita thakur thakur13 Dec 2016 11:04 AM ISTNew Delhi: GE Healthcare, a global leader in medical technologies and services, has been selected as a preferred technology partner in radiology by...