Tag Archives: FDA

Migraine Zapper, a new device to reduce Migraine

This is a Migraine zapper gadget. It is a hand-held device. It is shaped like a large brick connecting with a handle. It emanates strong but lower frequency magnetic pulses. It may decrease the pain due to migraine if used … Continue reading

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Urgent PC Neuromodulation System: treating overactive bladder and Faecal Incontinence

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a gadget that is the urgent PC Neuromodulation System from Uroplasty Inc. It motivates the tibial nerve in just a thirty-minute session only. This treatment is effective when the conventional therapy fails. This … Continue reading

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DIAM Spinal Stabilization System gets approval for clinical study

Medtronic Inc. announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have granted an investigational device exemption (IDE) to the DIAM Spinal Stabilization System for use in a clinical study. Medtronic will be the first of three planned clinical trials … Continue reading

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SmartPill pH.p Capsule Gets FDA Thumbs Up

SmartPill pH.p Capsule developed by SmartPill Corp. has got FDA’s approval. The capsule, which is a wireless, indigestible medical device, can be swallowed like any ordinary vitamin pill to determine the medical pressure, gastric emptying time (gastroparesis) and total transit … Continue reading

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EXOGEN 4000+* Bone Healing System

Smith & Nephew’s Orthopaedic Trauma & Clinical Therapies has got the green signal from FDA for its EXOGEN 4000+* Bone Healing System. The EXOGEN 4000+ Bone Healing System is a low-intensity pulsed ultrasound device that is externally applied 20 minutes … Continue reading

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FDA Approves CompuFlo(TM) Computer Controlled Infusion Pump

Milestone Scientific Inc. in New Jersey, renowned for developing dental devices, has got FDA thumbs up for its CompuFlo™, a computer controlled local anesthesia infusion pump, CompuFlo(TM). PRnewswire reports that the company calls it an “‘intelligent’ computer controlled local anesthetic … Continue reading

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Spire Brings Long-Term Dialysis Catheters

Spire Corporation has got FDA thumbs up for its new Silver Coated Hemodialysis Catheters. The company claims that the lubricious silver coating, nanocrystalline can reduce bacterial colonization for up to two months on its long-term dialysis catheters. The coating will … Continue reading

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At-Home HIV Test?

OraSure Technologies, a name in oral fluid diagnostics and maker of the OraQuick ADVANCE® Rapid HIV-1/2 Antibody Test is trying its darn good to get an FDA’s approval for its HIV testing products to be used at home. The OraQuick … Continue reading

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‘Nanofiber Bandages’ to Heal Wounds Faster

Daniel Smith and Darell Reneker, researchers at the University of Akron have developed a new type of Nanofiber based bandages that can speed up the healing process of the human body. The duo used electricity to spin ultrafine polymer fibers … Continue reading

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BiPAP AutoSV: Solution for complicated sleep-disorders

Respironics has launched BiPAP autoSV, a FDA approved device intended to provide noninvasive ventilatory support to treat adult patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) and Respiratory Insufficiency caused by central and/or mixed apneas and periodic breathing. What is Sleep Apnea? … Continue reading

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