Month: April 2018

Merivaara has unveiled one of the world's most versatile operating tables for elective procedures. The new, smarter Practico was designed to improve ergonomics with the industry's widest range of posture possibilities. “Customers have been asking for a table like this for years,” says Jyrki Nieminen, Merivaara's R&D director. “It has been in development for two years and we have received amazing feedback regarding the design, aesthetics and technical specifications.” Flexible, mobile operating tables are in high demand due to the…

BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), a leading global medical technology company, announced the commercial availability of the CE-IVD marked PAXgene® Blood ccfDNA tube within the European Economic Area and Switzerland (Western Europe). The plastic blood collection tube, which includes a proprietary sample stabilization additive and BD Vacutainer® Hemogard™ technology to help protect healthcare worker safety, was designed to ensure accurate and reproducible results in molecular diagnostic testing applications using circulating cell-free DNA (ccfDNA), such as cancer and non-invasive prenatal tests.…

A new ultrathin, elastic display that fits snugly on the skin can show the moving waveform of an electrocardiogram recorded by a breathable, on-skin electrode sensor. Combined with a wireless communication module, this integrated biomedical sensor system - called “skin electronics”—can transmit biometric data to the cloud. This latest research by a Japanese academic-industrial collaboration is led by Professor Takao Someya at the University of Tokyo's Graduate School of Engineering. Thanks to advances in semiconductor technology, wearable devices can now…