Bleeding is a fact of life in the operating room, especially as surgeons face increasing demands on the number and complexity of procedures they perform. But hemostatic technology hasn't kept up with these rising demands, according to a young medical device company called Arch Therapeutics (Wellesley, Massachusetts).

With the NCAA tournament going on in college basketball, the word "bubble" had both postive and negative connotations, depending on whether one's perspective team made it to the tournament. Bubble has also become the latest buzz word to flood the investment blogosphere, particularly as it relates to the healthcare information technology (HIT) space.

Researchers from North Carolina State University (NC State; Raleigh) have developed a new, stretchable antenna that can be incorporated into wearable technologies, such as health monitoring devices.

Colonoscopy technology has come a long way since it was first introduced more than 50 years ago. Video electronics have been added, along with water jets and better illumination technology. But standard forward-viewing colonoscopes still miss an unacceptably high number of polyps and tumors. Recognizing a need to help doctors catch significantly more lesions in the colon, EndoChoice (Alpharetta, Georgia), developed its Full Spectrum Endoscopy System (FUSE), equipped with multiple imagers that create a near-panoramic view.

Quanterix (Lexington, Massachusetts), a developer of high definition diagnostics, reported that JAMA Neurology has published a ground-breaking study in which its Simoa (single molecule array) technology was used to directly measure the brain protein Tau in the blood of athletes who had sustained mild traumatic brain injuries or concussions. These measurements have never before been possible in blood, the company noted.