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AHA blog: Can collaborative efforts to improve device design improve safety?

Despite elegant efforts to design for safe use, rigorous standards and regulatory requirements, and lots of training of health care professionals, there’s still room to ensure clinicians are using medical devices correctly — especially in high-stress, high-risk situations.
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White House announces tariffs on steel and aluminum imports

The Trump administration yesterday announced it issued
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Utah Medical Center First in Nation to Use Game-Changing Device to Treat Aortic Aneurysms

Intermountain Medical Center in Murray, Utah, has become the first hospital in the United States to use the newly FDA-approved Gore EXCLUDER Thoracoabdominal Branch Endoprosthesis (TAMBE) device to treat complex aneurysms in the visceral aorta.
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HHS says impacts to medical products should be limited as strike at U.S. ports begins

The Department of Health and Human Services Sept. 30 released a statement on the dockworker strike at ports along the East and Gulf coasts, saying that immediate impacts to medicines, medical devices and other goods should be limited.
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New Robotic Platform Technologies are Helping Transform Early Lung Cancer Diagnoses

A triple-whammy of advanced new diagnostic and treatment options holds the promise for better outcomes for New Jersey lung cancer patients.
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Petersburg Medical Center delivers gentler, more effective breast cancer screenings

Petersburg Medical Center in Petersburg, Alaska, has ushered in a new era of breast cancer detection with the arrival of its advanced 3D mammography machine.
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Sharp Memorial Hospital’s “heartfelt” approach to predicting future strokes

At Sharp Memorial Hospital in San Diego, health care providers use a technology called robotic transcranial Doppler (TCD), to identify PFOs in the heart and determine a patient’s likelihood of ischemic stroke.
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FDA clarifies definition of 'remanufacturing' for medical devices needing maintenance

The Food and Drug Administration May 9 released final guidance clarifying the definition of “remanufacturing” for reusable medical devic
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Nebraska Medicine Targets Earlier Diabetic Retinopathy Detection with AI

Nebraska Medicine, based in Omaha, Nebraska, however, has begun testing an AI tool in two of its primary care clinics to detect diabetic retinopathy in patients — a condition that can lead to blindness.