Topic: Medical Devices

Defective Medical Products - Implantable Cardiac Defibrillators

Guidant had an idea to develop an implantable cardiac defibrillator that captured the world by storm, but ended up in a nasty recall of 7 models of their medical product.READ»

An Artificial Knee, for Just $20

High-tech prosthetics can easily cost $50,000. They're a luxury usually afforded only to Westerners. But an engineer at Stanford has just unveiled an artificial knee that costs a mere $20. Last year, Joel Sadler was presented ...READ»

Reimagining the Prosthetic Arm

Students at New York's School of Visual Arts rethink what a prosthetic arm can be.READ»

SmartHand: Cyborg Limbs Will Feel Like User's Own

SmartHand is a European collaborative project to develop a next-generation robotic prosthetic limb, and as part of the project Swedish researchers have successfully demonstrated a neat psychological trick that makes wearers feel like ...READ»

How Toumaz Is Building a Complete Ecosystem for the Networked Body

Alison Burdett Director of Technology Toumaz Abingdon, England Building the Plumbing Alison Burdett, 42, developed the Sensium, a tiny chip-based wireless system for medical-device developers that is sold through Texas ...READ»

• Fast Talk: Making It Personal
• Fast Talk: Designing a Lifestyle App
• Fast Talk: Empowering the Patients

Holy MOMA! An Eames-Inspired Prosthetic Leg

You read that right: For an undergrad design project at Carnegie Mellon, Joanna Hawley came up with the funny, strange concept of a prosthetic leg inspired by the famous Eames Lounge Chair. As she writes: Prosthetics generally lack ...READ»

Toyota Unveils Wheelchair Propelled by Thoughts Alone

We'll still have to wait a few years to mind-meld with our Camrys, but researchers at Toyota have unveiled an advanced brain sensing system that controls the movement of a wheelchair by reading a user's thoughts alone. By processing ...READ»

Artificial Knees, Made to Order

ConforMIS, which creates custom knees using rapid prototyping, just raised $50 million in venture financing.READ»

Fantastic Voyage

Cyberonics' medical implant is the size of a chocolate-chip cookie, and it could--could--be worth $2.8 billion someday. But as this dramatic tale of innovation and entrepreneurship shows, saving lives can be one tough business.READ»

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NASA Tech Worms Its Way Into Your Heart, Via Medtronic's Attain Ability

Here's another poke in the eye for people who gripe that the space industry is a waste of money: Technology originally developed by NASA as an insulator for spacecraft has been incorporated into a new implantable medical device ...READ»

Agnosticism, Ad Agencies, and End Runs

Two articles in today's New York Times highlight relatively new approaches to advertising. In the first, Melody Petersen takes a look at how medical device manufacturers are making an end run around doctors and appealing to consumers ...READ»

Amputation – Loss of Limb Litigation

In most instances, amputation is thought of as the removal of a body part via surgery or trauma. It is usually performed to stop the spread of a disease or limit an existing malady.READ»

Changing Course Can Lead To New Direction – Abiomed Focuses On Heart Recovery

To assist or replace? That was the question that Mike Minogue focused on during his first few weeks as the new chief executive officer of Abiomed (NASDAQ: ABMD), a technology company that created the first artificial heart. A student ...READ»

MIT Advances the Model for Retinal Implants

Several institutions have developed models for retinal implants--some companies, such as California-based Second Sight, have even started developing them commercially. But, while cochlear implants, for example, can impart fairly ...READ»

Freedom Leg Makes Crutches a Thing of the Past

After the pain, the worst part of breaking a leg or ankle is the helplessness of having to hobble around on crutches. But what if you could trade in crutches for your very own prosthetic leg--without cutting off a real one? That's ...READ»

Implanted Heart Attack Detector Saves Lives, Wirelessly

Even if someone has a heart attack, it routinely takes three hours before the symptoms become manifest. And that's precisely the problem--Every hour that ER treatment is delayed raises the chance of death by a percentage point, so ...READ»

Sustainability: Next Stop: Tomorrowland

In the quest for more efficient, green energy sources, a group of researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have made a breakthrough: batteries made out of paper. Ok, so it's a bit more complex than a piece of loose leaf. But ...READ»

Intel Inside ... More Than Computers

In the Web 2.0 world, computers aren't the only products that depend on Intel chips.READ»

• Intel Risks It All (Again)
• Intel Everywhere
• Intel Then, Now, and Tomorrow

Tripping the Tube Fantastic

It's become conventionally cool among some forward-thinking marketers to say that television is no longer as important as it used to be and that advertising on television has lost its punch. That just isn't true. Our lives continue to ...READ»

Defective Medical Devices Lurk in Waiting

Modern medicine is a marvelous thing when it works without side effects.READ»

Endovascular Aneurysm Repair Device Market to Reach $3.4 Billion by 2015

A New Report from Medtech Ventures Forecasts a Market of $3.4 Billion for Endovascular Aneurysm Repair Devices by 2015READ»

Lasik Eye Care

Dr.David Kleiman - laser vision correction offers a permanent improvement for your vision, and it does not necessitate years of expense and hassles; and of course, vision correction does not deprive the cornea of oxygen, cause ...READ»

Market for Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm Stent Grafts Surpasses $160 Million

According to a newly released report from Medtech Ventures, the forward looking strategy think tank for the medical technology industry, the global market for Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm Repair (TEVAR) devices reached $160 million in 2008.READ»

EasyToInsureME Health Insurance Quotes Reform Weekly

This week, lawmakers fine-tuned their reform proposals and, once again, the public option became the central issue of the health care reform debate.READ»