Power Medical Interventions Inc. (PMI), a Langhorne, PA medical device company, has announced today the pricing of its IPO, a $11 stock to be sold on NASDAQ Global Market under the symbol "PMII." The company plans to sell 3,850,000 of its shares. PMI is trying to market its newly 510(k)'ed i60 Inte
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A collaborative project between high-energy physicists from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and neuroscientists from the Salk Institute in La Jolla, CA., has resulted in a discovery of a novel type of retinal cell dubbed the "upsilon cell." Furthermore, the investigators believe that they
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MIT and University of Rochester investigators are developing a device that will be able to capture pre-specified types of cells from the blood stream and subject them to various kinds of therapies, such as killing malignant ones or delivering intracellular drugs to the other types of cells: MIT and
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A new 21 inch medical monitor from LG.Philips LCD is being unveiled this week. Featuring an impressive resolution of more than 3 megapixels and low distortion at wide viewing angles, this may be the finest screen of this size yet developed. LG.Philips LCD announced today that it has developed a 20.
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Researchers at Harvard have demonstrated a new type of technology called the quantum cascade laser nanoantenna, that might be used to design smaller, possibly tabletop, microscopes, capable of visualizations of details on the "nanometric" scale, including the chemical composition of a cell. The las
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Philips has officially launched its new tablet PC for clinicians, called CliniScape. Previously only known as Mobile Clinical Assistant (MCA) (see our post from March), the CliniScape (MCA104 model) was just unveiled at the World of Health IT annual congress in Vienna, Austria. The system is design
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If the telltale breath and stained fingers and teeth weren't enough, it turns out a pulse oximeter is a pretty good tool for detecting smokers who won't readily admit their habit. In addition to detecting blood oxygen levels, it can detect carbon monoxide levels which are typically higher in smoker
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SonoSite is continuing its interesting strategy of developing ultrasounds for various specialties by offering a new device, the SonoSite S-ICU&trade, custom-designed for intensive care physicians. The system was introduced today at the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) annual meeting in C
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Carbon monoxide (CO), a silent and powerful poison gas, might actually lend itself for a variety of promising clinical applications, according to the researchers from Sheffield University in the UK. Professor Brian Mann and colleagues from the University's Department of Chemistry and hemoCORM Ltd,
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