February 15, 2017 — Doctors at the University of Alabama at Birmingham have implemented the first U.S. Food and Drug...
Stroke
This channel includes news and new technology innovations for stroke. It includes both diagnosis and treatment of stroke, stroke imaging, pharmaceuticals and interventional stroke technologies. Stroke comes in two forms, which have different therapies.
1. Ischemic stoke is a blockage of an artery in the brain, preventing blood flow and is offen referred to as a "brain attack" because it is a similar casue as a heart attack. This type of stroke is often treated with anti-coagulants, including use of tissue plasminogen activator (tPA). Interventional mechanical thrombectomy can also be used to remove the clot.
2. Hemorrhagic stroke is caused when there is bleeding due to a ruptured blood vessel in the brain caused by a brain aneurysm burst or a weakened blood vessels. These strokes are less common, but exact diagnosis is important, because use of tPA in these patients can have catastrophic consequences. Treatments include interventional embolization and surgical clipping of target vessels.
February 1, 2017 — Baylor Heart and Vascular Services at Fort Worth in November became the first program in Texas to...
January 17, 2017 — James Laskaris, emerging technology analyst at MD Buyline, recently offered his perspective on...
January 5, 2017 — A new report published by Allied Market Research forecasts that the global...
January 2, 2017 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) hopes to build clinical evidence through new...
November 18, 2016 — InspireMD Inc. announced in mid-October the online publication of positive clinical data in a...
November 14, 2016 — Atrial...
November 2, 2016 — St. Jude Medical Inc. announced the long-term data from RESPECT, a landmark trial, during a First...
November 2, 2016 — St. Jude Medical Inc. announced this week the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval...
October 20, 2016 — SentreHeart Inc. announced in late September the closing of a $35 million Series D round of...
October 18, 2016 — Medtronic plc announced last week that it has notified customers of a voluntary recall of certain...
October 13, 2016 — A surveillance project to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of transcarotid artery...
September 28, 2016 — Neuravi recently announced Conformité Européenne (CE) Mark approval and launch of the company’s...
August 8, 2016 — Updated recommendations from the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) states that catheter-based...
July 27, 2016 — Penumbra Inc. announced U.S. commercial availability of its latest...