The company is a long time veteran in the stent business and not too long ago I had an interview posted here on the blog . The interview related to stents, coated with antibiotics. As the business for stents continues to grow, it seems so does Cook. A new products on the horizon...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 11-30-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, Medical Devices, clinical trials, Cook Medical, Stents, peripheral arterial disease, arteries
With both consumer and commercial medical devices, Bluetooth has become a preferred connection. I remember back to the early days of Bluetooth and we all used to sit around and wonder in the Windows Mobile group where Bluetooth was going to somehow fit it. The cell phone was the obvious answer...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 11-25-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Windows Mobile, Medical Records, EHR, Medical Devices, Health IT, PHR, Google Health, personal health record, Healthcre, Bluetooth
There’s a lot of truth to this study in more ways than one. Shoot I’m sitting around Twitter hoping to inspire some physicians, readers, PHDs, journalists, business leaders, business organizations, students, you name it, to just try a FREE PHR, and see what power is there and what they do. ...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 11-23-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, Medical Records, Medical Devices, PHR, Personal Health Records, software, Caregivers, monitoring devices, Intrusive Technology, attitude
In addition there are applications for cardiology, obstetrics and emergency medicine. Medical devices are getting smaller and more portable every day. Mobility and healthcare are going hand in hand today with having the technology both portable and available. BD The European Journal...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 11-20-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, Medical Devices, Cardiology, Mobility, Siemens, Emergency medicine, portable ultrasound
This technology is amazing. I have included a video from YouTube that is home made and not related this this patient or case, but shows the procedures used with the machine and how the unit and dressing is changed. The cancer was so rare that it has only been seen twice at the M.D....
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 11-19-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Surgery, Medical Devices, Cancer, tumors, Heatlhcare, Wound care, wound VAC, M D Anderson, incision
All I can say here is that this goes back to a earlier post: The 2 New Hot Words in Healthcare: Algorithms and Whistleblowers In this case we have a bit of both, algorithms created by the scientists, but a requested change by the clinical side of the table? Sounds a bit like the algorithms run...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 11-19-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, drugs, healthcare, Medical Devices, Prescriptions, FDA, Medications, Whistle Blower, Data, Data Base, Algorithms
The reports on the device state that it contributes to both weight loss and normalization of blood glucose levels. In the trials the device was in place for 12 weeks, and then removed. The procedures takes around 30 minutes or so and is done endoscopically through the mouth . The report...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 11-19-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, Medical Devices, clinical trials, Diabetes, Glucose, Diet, weight loss, obesity, diabetes 2