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by Joe Jancsurak, Senior Editor
A bad-news-good-news message for medical device manufacturers was delivered by Boston Scientific President and CEO Jim Tobin during a luncheon at last week’s Innovations Summit at the Cleveland Clinic.
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A fully implantable artificial heart intended to overcome the worldwide shortage of transplant donors will be ready for clinical trial by 2011, according to heart transplant specialist Alain Carpentier. As head of the European research team behind the project, Carpentier said the prosthetic heart is ready to be manufactured and should be ready for human use "within two and half years."
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A recent industry report by Manhattan Research, a New York-based healthcare research organization confirms that more than 60 million adults in the United States are using “Healthcare 2.0” technology, which includes electronic health records, health-related blogs, message boards, and chat rooms.
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The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) and GE Healthcare are collaborating to develop 25 cancer centers in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East over the next 10 years. UPMC will provide its cancer expertise while GE Healthcare provides the equipment for scanning, generating mammograms, and monitoring internal organs during operations.
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Redesigned LCF400 tension and compression load cells by Futek are used by manufacturers of artificial joints and robotic limbs.
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NEW LITERATURE ON HYDROPHILIC COATINGS
 New technical information is available from Biocoat, Inc. that describes the advantages of the HYDAK® hydrophilic coatings system and their consistent performance benefits. Based on hyaluronan, nature’s own natural lubricant, the HYDAK two-coat system represents a major advance in biomedical device coatings. Organic solvent and aqueous dispersion base coats are also compared for their adhesion properties on a number of metallic and polymeric substrate materials in a ready-reference chart format. Testimonials from several medical device manufacturing companies are also included. To request a copy of this brochure, call Josh Simon, Sr. Product Manager at 215-734-0888 Ext. 115, or visit:
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Three power supplies from Murata Power Solutions. provide continuous full power across an operating temperature range of -5C to +55C with airflows as low as 250 linear ft/min.
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Rollers, seals, gaskets, handles and buttons by Rubber Industries for medical diagnostic equipment such as CT scanning systems and blood analyzers, are chemically bonded during vulcanization and curing for permanent sealing of the bonded components.
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Boker's 2008 Washer Catalog
Boker's, Inc.'s FREE 2008 Washer Catalog has over 22,000 non-standard sizes
available with no tooling charges. A wide range of ODs, IDs and thicknesses,
plus 2,000 material variations provide millions of possibilities.
www.bokers.com
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