Direct Flow Medical (Santa Rosa, California) said it has received FDA approval to broaden its SALUS trial including the addition of high risk patients and randomization against Medtronic's (Dublin) CoreValve.

In a move to strengthen its position in the diabetes market, Medtronic (Dublin) has formed an agreement with DreaMed Diabetes (Petah Tikvah, Israel), for the development and marketing of products incorporating DreaMed's MD-Logic Artificial Pancreas algorithm in the med-tech giant's insulin pumps.

When it comes right down to detecting sepsis most diagnostics companies use methods to identify the pathogen. But therein lies the issue with looking for the pathogen, because it has to be in the blood sample or the fluid sample to start with, otherwise a clinician can't find it. In the clinician's world this causes a lot of false negatives, because if that pathogen is not in that sample or that blood sample, it doesn't matter how fast or sensitive that technology is, the clinician won't find it."

The Las Vegas casinos were teeming with activity last week, but the true bets from orthopedic surgeons who descended upon sin city during the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons (AAOS) weren’t originating from the tables in their hotel lobbies. True bets were being placed on what would happen regarding the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR). Ultimately the House would overwhelmingly pass the bill. But the Senate went into recess before making a final vote. For the uninitiated, in 1997, Congress adopted the SGR formula as part of the Balanced Budget Act. The idea was to control federal health care spending. The...

ATLANTA — Could Google (Mountain View, California) be a strong enough healthcare company to overtake med-tech giant Medtronic (Dublin, Ireland) one day? While it might seem impossible now, under the premise of integrated healthcare, a lot of unlikely players that have technologies to track data could in fact have leading market share in the healthcare industry.