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Topical Oxygen Therapy Awarded Positive Treatment Recommendation by the International Working Group on the Diabetic Foot in their 2023 Diabetic Foot Ulcer Guidelines
AOTI Inc, the global leader in multi-modality topical wound oxygen, announced exciting news from the 9th International Symposium on the Diabetic Foot (ISDF). The ISDF is often referred to as the Olympics of the Diabetic Foot, due to being held only every 4 years and the high quality of the clinical sessions.
Thermo Fisher Scientific Expands ImmunoCAP™ Test Availability Across U.S.
Testing supporting allergy diagnosis now accessible to more people in more communities
Beckman Coulter Unveils Next Generation Immunoassay Analyzer Enabling Elite Laboratory Performance With No Daily Maintenance
DxI 9000 Access Immunoassay Analyzer Boasts Industry’s Highest Throughput per Footprint: Up To 215 Tests/Hour/Square Meter Innovations Bolster Assay Performance and Laboratory Productivity with New Analyte Processing and Detection Technology, Precision Sensors, Smart Algorithms, Remote Real-Time System Monitoring, and is the Only Immunoassay Analyzer System with No Daily Maintenance i NT-proBNP Assay Now Available with Age-Based Cutoffs and Comorbidity Data
Randox Laboratories introduces Prostate-specific Antigen (PSA). This allows testing for indications of prostate cancer and other prostate conditions such as prostatitis and benign prostatic hyperplasia.
Produced by both normal and malignant prostate cells, PSA functions to liquify semen in the seminal coagulum allowing sperm cells to move freely and to dissolve the cervical mucus permitting the sperm cells migration to the uterus.
Randox Laboratories have introduced BNP1-32, an accepted clinical practice for the diagnosis of heart failure due to its high sensitivity and specificity.
Randox have released an automated test for levels of BNP, which is a protein made by your heart and blood vessels. Elevated levels of BNP are indicative of several comorbid conditions such as Congestive Heart Failure, Coronary Heart Disease, Atrial Fibrillation, Chronic Renal Failure and Chronic Respiratory Disease. It has additionally been shown to be associated with ischemic stroke and pre-eclampsia.
UPM Biomedicals enters the Switzerland Innovation Park Basel Area site Main Campus, Europe’s top life sciences hub
UPM Biomedicals is pleased to have established Basel, Switzerland, as the new bridgehead of introducing high quality nanofibrillar cellulose to life science and medical applications. UPM Biomedicals became a member of the Switzerland Innovation Park Basel Area resident community on 10 May and plans to open a cell lab in the premises later this year.
Two 3M Veraflo Therapy dressings receive first-ever FDA clearance for hydromechanical removal of non-viable tissue
Innovative therapy shown to help promote healing and reduce the need for surgical debridements creating potential savings for health care systems.
Hartmann
When verifying the safety of invasive transvaginal examinations, every possible preparation must be taken to eliminate chances of spreading pathogens. A reproducible method of manual disinfection that can be shown to reduce the risk of spread can help significantly with the overall safety of these common processes. Hartmann’s approach offers a potential solution.
The new point of view
The Finnish medical imaging company Planmed is introducing Planmed XFI – the world’s first full-body weight-bearing CT. The Planmed XFI system can do it all, from head to toe, both laying down and under natural load. Capable of bringing views previously not seen in diagnostic imaging to the disposal of medical professionals, helping them in their most important task: making an accurate diagnosis.
Stop the spread
Hospitals are places of healing; at least that’s the way most of us view them. But with the number of invasive procedures, open wounds and bacteria present, the inside of a healthcare facility can also present a high risk of infection to patients. Add the fact that staff have been dealing with a highly infectious virus for the past three years of the Covid-19 pandemic, and infection preventionists have had their work cut out. Hailey Hudson speaks to Dr Hilary Babcock, director of Infectious Disease Prevention and chief quality officer at BJC Healthcare, and Erica Susky, an infection control practitioner based out of Toronto, Canada, to find out how both have been working to keep infections down as much as possible amid changing government requirements.