Researchers in Germany are using brain waves to test how different pricing schemes impact the emotional state of consumers. “Everyone thinks that they’ve truly figured out how to sell a relatively inexpensive product for a lot of money. But the odd thing is that even this company doesn’t understand it,” notes Kai-Markus Müller, a neurobiologist…
Stryker Corp. and Imris ink a deal to collaborate on spinal imaging suites incorporating Stryker’s automatic image registration and surgical suites made by Imris. Stryker (NYSE:SYK) and IMRIS Inc. (TSX:IM) said they’ve inked a deal to incorporate automatic spinal and cranial image registration into surgical suites. The non-exclusive collaboration will see Stryker’s image registration technology…
Online interest in the medical device tax is at the highest its ever been amid Congressional wrangling for an end to the government shutdown. The public is clamoring for information about the medical device tax in the wake of the federal shutdown after a plan to keep the government funded and running fell apart over…
NuVasive introduces its new Precept posterior fixation system in Japanese patients, hoping to use the device to break into the country’s spinal market. California medical device company NuVasive Inc. (NSDQ:NUVA) debuted its Precept spinal implant in Japan, treating the 1st patients with the posterior fixation system. The device, which won Japanese regulatory approval in July, is…
Researchers at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute have reported the first experimental evidence that supports the theory that a soccer ball-shaped nanoparticle commonly called a buckyball is the result of a breakdown of larger structures rather than being built atom-by-atom from the ground up. Technically known as fullerenes, these spherical carbon molecules have shown…
Just a reminder… next week we will be hosting: Multidisciplinary Orthopedic Care Symposium — An Interactive Seminar and Live Surgery Demonstration
Titan Medical touts the 1st working prototype of its robot-assisted SPORT Single Port Orifice Robotic Technology, which allows surgeons to conduct surgeries using only instruments inserted in a 25mm-diameter opening in the abdomen. Titan Medical (CVE:TMD) now has a functioning prototype of its Single Port Orifice Robotic Technology (SPORT), a robot-assisted surgical system that precisely matches a…
Lombard Medical Technologies PLC, has announced that the first U.S. patients have been successfully treated with Aorfix™, the Group’s flexible stent graft for the endovascular repair of abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs). Aorfix was approved by the FDA for commercial sale in the U.S. in February 2013. The approval included a label indication for the treatment…
Students of all ages put their summer breaks on hold to participate in SERI’s annual summer science camps, learning things from Newtown’s theory of relativity to the anatomy of the heart! Each camp lasted four days, where campers explored all aspects of science; expertly lead through experiments, dissections and explosions.
Medtronic files the 1st module of a pre-market approval application with the FDA for its In.Pact Admiral drug-eluting balloon to treat peripheral artery disease. Medtronic (NYSE:MDT) applied for pre-market approval from the FDA for a medical device designed to treat peripheral artery disease, the In.Pact Admiral drug-eluting balloon. Fridley, Minn.-based Medtronic said it’s gearing up for a…