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Sphere Medical, an innovative company in critical care monitoring and diagnostics equipment, announces that its Proxima™ bedside blood gas monitoring system is compatible with Philips IntelliVue Patient Monitoring Systems through the Philips IntelliBridge Interface Module. Sphere Medical’s Proxima is an acute respiratory and metabolic monitoring system used in critical care settings which supports proactive patient […]

Shimadzu Corporation was recognized for their global strategies and product launch efforts for diagnostic X-ray imaging systems and received the 2017 Global General Radiography Product Line Strategy Leadership Award from Frost & Sullivan, a major global market research and consulting company based in the U.S. The RADspeed Pro EDGE package general radiography system, the MobileDaRt […]

Opioid-free general anaesthesia is safe, effective and dramatically decreases postoperative nausea, according to a single-centre study of more than 1,000 patients. Using opioid alternatives during general anaesthesia is part of an effort by TEAMHealth Anesthesia at Select Physicians Surgery Center in Tampa, Florida to reduce the use of opioids during and after surgery. The study […]

Researchers from LSTM’s Research Centre for Drugs and Diagnostics (RCDD) have found a way of significantly reducing the treatment required for lymphatic filariasis and onchocerciasis from several weeks to seven days. By targeting Wolbachia, a bacterial symbiont that the filarial parasites need to live, the team has discovered a drug synergy that enables effective treatment […]

Robot-assisted laparoscopic surgery to remove a patient’s entire kidney requires slightly longer operating times and results in increased costs compared with the use of traditional laparoscopic surgery, according to a large, multiyear analysis conducted by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. However, the two approaches have comparable patient outcomes and lengths of hospital […]