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Firms race to develop renal denervation catheters to treat hypertension. |
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Star Tribune: This month, St. Jude Medical announced that its EnligHTN renal denervation system safely and effectively lowered blood pressure at six months. Boston Scientific also announced it will pay as much as $425 million for a California company that has developed a renal denervation system that has been approved for use in Europe and Australia. Medtronic's Symplicity system is on its third trial overall, first in the U.S., and has won European and Australian market approval. It has been used on more than 4,000 patients.
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Baxter said to be in talks to buy Gambro. |
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Chicago Tribune: Baxter International Inc. is in talks to buy Swedish medical-equipment maker Gambro for about $4 billion, according to a source familiar with the situation. A deal is seen in two to three weeks but has not been completed, so it could fall apart, the source said on Friday. Baxter and Gambro could not be reached for comment.
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Nanotechnology cures multiple sclerosis in mice; are other autoimmune diseases next? |
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Science Daily: "This is a highly significant breakthrough in translational immunotherapy," said Stephen Miller, a corresponding author of the study and the Judy Gugenheim Research Professor of Microbiology-Immunology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. "The beauty of this new technology is it can be used in many immune-related diseases. We simply change the antigen that's delivered."
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New DaVinci robotic surgery equipment reduces 3 small incisions to 1. |
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NY Times: Now there are robotic systems — one on the market, others in development — that are even less intrusive. They require only a single, small incision through which the robotic arms and camera enter.
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DNA sequencing helps tracks the course of an MRSA outbreak in real time. |
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Science News: Parkhill and Brown's team analyzed MRSA samples from the 12 patients with DNA sequencing technology and found that all the MRSA bacteria were closely related, confirming an outbreak. While this sequencing study was underway, the hospital's infection control team found a MRSA case in the special care baby unit - 64 days after the last MRSA patient had left. The team used advanced DNA sequencing to show in real time that this strain was also part of the same outbreak, raising the possibility that a staff member was unknowingly carrying and transmitting the MRSA strain.
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