Important medical decisions regarding a patient’s blood pressure are often based on an embarrassingly small amount of data. Blood pressure changes continuously throughout the day, hence a single reading, such as in a doctor’s office, could be misleading by either vastly under or over estimating...

Medtronic , having received European approval for the company’s Driver Sprint RX Coronary Stent System, is launching the product for worldwide sale. The new upgrade to the popular stenting system improves deliverability for easier placement. The new system combines the proven Driver Bare-Metal...

VisionCare Inc., now out of Saratoga, California, is reporting that the “FDA Ophthalmic Devices Advisory Panel unanimously recommended that the FDA approve, with conditions, the premarket application (PMA) for its implantable telescope for End-Stage AMD.” We have been reporting about this...

NeuroVasx out of Maple Grove, Minnesota received European regulatory approval to market the firm’s innovative polymer based intracranial aneurysm ablation system. cPAX is a polymer strand delivered through a microcatheter using the same delivery technique as the currently used platinum coil technology....

The Drake Center, a rehab hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio, has announced an agreement with Nexstim , a company out of Helsinki, Finland, to initiate clinical trial of the firm’s eXimia NBS system for patients recovering from stroke. The device features Navigated Brain Stimulation technology, which...

Filed under: Fitness I love swimming laps — I might not be able to run long distances (at least, not at a respectable pace), but swimming? Swimming, I can do forever . In fact, I often swim long enough that I completely lose track of how many laps I’ve done. Obviously, other people have...