Category Archives: Medical Technology

With the passing years, technology continues to evolve, and there is no stopping it. Continue reading →

What to Know Sean Murphy went from shopping in Mansfield to Patriot Place on Thursday. In between, he went home to murder his mother with a kitchen knife, police say Continue reading →

Most of us have a nightmare scenario when it comes to our medical bills. Weeks after a procedure, a notice arrives from our health plan with a complicated explanation of what is and what isn't covered. Continue reading →

A Crowd and a Source Crowdsourcings basic premise, that individual knowledge can never match collective wisdom, applies to diagnostic medicine as well. Well-trained physicians and other health professionals typically diagnose health conditions. But some things confound even the experts, and even the experts confound some things. Continue reading →

Small enough to fit in a pocket, OraSure Technologies Inc.'s products sold by 23andMe bring DNA testing into the home for people to learn about their health and heredity. They make saliva tests for HIV cheap and fast enough for public health workers to take them door to door. That helps get people treatment and stem the virus' spread among homosexual men -- the population most at risk for getting HIV -- in places where homosexuality is a crime punishable by death. Continue reading →

Forget ghost stories, the real horror this Halloween comes from the inhumane practices of the Federal Drug Administrations (FDA) drug approval process. In a country that prides itself on individual freedom, you would think that patients dying from a terminal illness would have the ability to access potentially life-saving drugs that are in late stages of efficacy testing. Youd be wrong Continue reading →

Flo and Clue, two popular period-tracking apps, recently introduced health tools that evaluate a womans risk for the hormonal imbalance known as polycystic ovary syndrome. In September alone, more than 636,000 women completed the Flo health assessments, said the apps developer, Flo Health. The app then recommended that 240,000 of those women, or about 38 percent, ask their doctors about the hormonal disorder. Continue reading →

At a presentation to the Actuaries Institute conference in Melbourne on Wednesday afternoon, the Private Healthcare Australia chairman, John Hill, will say insurers find it challenging not to pass on the rising costs of medical devices through premium increases. In December, the health minister, Greg Hunt, boasted that the governments reforms to make private health insurance simpler and more affordable had delivered the lowest annual premium change in 18 years for 2019. But the relief appears to have been short-lived owing to cost increases for knee and hip replacements and cardiac implants Continue reading →

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Netherlands-based medical device maker GTX medical has merged with US-based medical device developer NeuroRecovery Technologies (NRT) to create a neurostimulation company with a focus on spinal cord injury (SCI). The merged entity will be known as GTX medical BV following the deal and will focus on developing neuromodulation therapies to improve functional recovery of people with SCI. Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation, a North American nonprofit organisation dedicated to curing spinal cord injury, will be a shareholder in the merged company, alongside the present investors, including LSP, Inkef, Wellington Partners and GIMV Continue reading →