'Medical' Tag

• USPTO grants two patents for Leto Medicals COS technology

  July 28, 2010

  [Story ID: 3314] Leto Medical, LLC, a privately held, early-stage medical device company, announced today that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has granted the company two patents (7,765,006 and 7,765,007) for its breakthrough Continent Ostomy System technology, a system of products that will restore continence control to individuals with colostomies.

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• St. Jude alleges San Diego company infringed on patents – Minneapolis Star Tribune

  July 28, 2010

  St. Jude alleges San Diego company infringed on patentsMinneapolis Star TribuneSt. Jude Medical Inc. said Tuesday that it has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against a California company that has developed a diagnostic tool and …St. Jude Medical Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Volcano Corporation …MarketWatch (press release)St. Jude Medical alleges patent infringement, stolen trade [...]

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• Leto Medical, LLC Issued Two US Patents on Breakthrough Continent Ostomy System

  July 28, 2010

  [Story ID: 3296] FERNANDINA BEACH, Fla.—-Leto Medical, LLC, a privately held, early-stage medical device company, announced today that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has granted the company two patents for its breakthrough Continent Ostomy System technology, a system of products that will restore continence control to individuals with colostomies.

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• Medical device complications send more than 70,000 kids to ER annually

  July 27, 2010

  [Story ID: 3286] The Associated Press: The first detailed national estimate on complications in medical device use by children says that more than 70,000 kids a year have to go to emergency rooms because of complications from medical devices, with contact lenses the leading culprit. “About one-fourth of the problems were things like infections and [...]

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• Insurers, advocates fight over upcoming spending rules

  July 23, 2010

  [Story ID: 3192] Insurance companies are banding together to weaken a key health law rule that requires them to spend as much as 85 percent of their revenues on medical care, according to the advocacy group Health Care for America Now. At issue is the definition of ‘medical loss ratio,’ a figure used on Wall [...]

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• St. Jude Medical second-quarter net sales increase 11% to $1.313 billion

  July 23, 2010

  [Story ID: 3161] St. Jude Medical, Inc., a global medical device company, today reported sales and net earnings for the second quarter ended July 3, 2010.

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• Researchers to integrate two existing medical devices for cancer treatment

  July 21, 2010

  [Story ID: 3090] Today, at the 52nd Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) in Philadelphia, a group of researchers from Stanford University will describe the latest developments toward their goal of integrating two existing medical devices — medical linear accelerators, or “linacs,” which produce powerful X-rays for treating cancer, and [...]

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• Ingen Files Patents & Gears Up to Produce New Medical Product

  July 16, 2010

  [Story ID: 2957] YUCAIPA, Calif. — Ingen Technologies, Inc. , an emerging medical device manufacturer developing innovative solutions for the respiratory market, with a new patented and proprietary medical product line targeting the $8B respiratory market, announced today that the company has also filed a U.S patent and will begin the required manufacturing processes to [...]

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• Valentus Medical Technologies signs partnership agreement with Medical Tactile for SureTouch technology

  July 14, 2010

  [Story ID: 2847] Medical Tactile, Inc. and Valentus Medical Technologies, Inc. announced today that Valentus Medical Technologies, Inc., based in Victoria, Canada, has signed a partnership agreement with Medical Tactile, Inc., and has taken on the exclusive Sales & Marketing rights for SureTouch’

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• New, updated guidelines on vitamin D published online

  July 14, 2010

  [Story ID: 2852] New and updated guidelines on recommended vitamin D intake have been published this week in the online issue of the Canadian Medical Association Journal.

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