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American Academy of Neurology recommends PFO closure for selected stroke patients
New guidance from the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) recommends the closure of a patent foramen ovale (PFO) for some people who have had...
COVID-19: Calls for physicians to address domestic violence during social distancing
Prism Schneider (Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada) and others write in a commentary in the Canadian Medical Association Journal—because of...
COVID-19: CMS outlines recommendations for restarting non-emergent procedures
On 18 March, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recommended “limiting non-essential care and expanding surge capacity into ambulatory surgical centres and...
COVID-19: Cotton and surgical masks may be ineffective at stopping spread...
In a brief report in Annals of Internal Medicine, Seongman Bae (Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea) and colleagues report that neither surgical...
COVID-19: European Commission agrees to postpone new MDR because of pandemic
The European Commission (EC) has adopted a proposal to postpone by one year the date of application of the new Medical Devices Regulation (MDR), which...
COVID-19: European Commission looking to postpone new MDR by one year
During a Q&A section of a European Commission (EC) college meeting on 25 March, EC spokesperson Stefan de Keersmaecker stated that the commission were looking to...
BIBA Briefings: Novel device seeks to overcome paralysis by “bypassing” nervous...
Synchron recently announced the first successful implant of its minimally-invasive neural interface technology (Stentrode) as part of a trial evaluating the safety and efficacy of...
Poll favours interventional radiologists to perform mechanical thrombectomy in lieu of...
According to a BIBA MedTech survey, 52% of neurointerventionalists believe that they are the only specialists who have the relevant skills and experience to perform...
Mentice and Siemens Healthineers aim to bring a virtual patient to...
Siemens Healthineers and Mentice have announced a collaboration to fully integrate Mentice’s Vist “Virtual Patient” into the Artis icono angiography system from Siemens Healthineers....
One in five US patients with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease cannot pay...
A review, published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, of the financial hardship associated with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (such as coronary...
Editors-in-chief of major cardiovascular journals claim medical misinformation puts “lives at...
The editors-in-chief of major cardiovascular journals—of both US and European societies—have come together to “sound the alarm” about the dangers of medical misinformation that...
Philips launces Azurion with FlexArm to aid image-guided procedures
Philips launches its Azurion with FlexArm to aid patient imaging and positioning during image-guided procedures.
During increasingly complex interventions, clinicians need to quickly and easily...
US FDA plan shakeup of its 510(k) clearance programme
The US FDA has announced plans to modernise its 510(k) clearance programme for approving medical devices for the US market. Data show that about...
One in five UK doctors say understaffing has affected patient safety
The annual census of UK consultants and higher speciality trainees—Focus on Physicians 2017–18—indicates that more than half of all consultants and two thirds of...
New study shows significant clinical workflow and staff experience benefits of...
Philips has announced the results of a comprehensive, independent, two-year study demonstrating the clinical workflow benefits of its next generation image-guided therapy platform, Azurion.
The...
Sentinel becomes first cerebral protection device to receive FDA approval
Claret Medical has received regulatory clearance from the FDA for its Sentinel cerebral protection system, via de novo classification, meaning that the device can...
