Researchers at UC San Diego Health System’s Department of Reproductive Medicine and the National Latino Research Center (NLRC) at Cal State San Marcos University recently presented data at the American Public Health Association Conference in Washington D.C., demonstrating the impact of text4baby, a free mobile service that provides pregnant women and new mothers in San [...]

Phones are not just for conversation anymore. A surgeon in Indian used an iPhone app to help install a new knee and now Aesculap Implant Systems has launched an App for use on the Apple iPad, iPhone and iPod. The new App features OrthoPilot navigated surgeries, shows animated surgical techniques, operating room videos and an [...]

Boston Business Journal — Boston Scientific Corp. (NYSE: BSX) has announced that a shipment of medical devices was stolen last month on its way to the company’s sterilization facility. The Natick, Mass.-based medical device company said that the devices, which include endoscopy and urology/women’s health devices, could cause infection, since they were not yet sterilized. [...]

Playing two Wii Fit video games-Step and Hula-can provide adequate exercise to improve health and physical fitness, reports a study in the March issue of The Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, official research journal of the National Strength and Conditioning Association. The journal is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer [...]

(Reuters) – Johnson & Johnson, which has been plagued by repeated recalls of its consumer medicines and medical devices over the past year, on Wednesday said it recalled 107 batches of surgical sutures in December due to potential sterility problems. The recall came to light on Wednesday after the United Kingdom Medicines and Healthcare products [...]

SAN DIEGO and MUNDELEIN, Ill., Feb. 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — CareFusion Corporation (NYSE:CFN – News) a global, medical technology company, and Medline Industries, Inc., the nation’s largest privately held manufacturer and distributor of healthcare products, today announced an agreement to sell the CareFusion International Surgical Products (ISP) distribution business to Medline for approximately $130 million. [...]

Males who use laptops on their laps are likely to experience scrotal hyperthermia – elevated temperatures in their testicles – which can significantly affect the quality of their sperm, and consequently their fertility, US scientists report in the medical journal Fertility and Sterility. The authors add that even if they protect their laps with a lap [...]

GE Healthcare has successfully linked its electronic medical records (EMR) solution with several non-GE inpatient systems, providing a single view of the patient record that will go beyond the requirements of meaningful use. The interoperability solution is set to debut at beta sites Capital Region Healthcare (N.H.) and Decatur Memorial Hospital (Ill.) in early 2011 [...]

SAN CARLOS, Calif., Oct 13, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Natus Medical Incorporated /quotes/comstock/15*!baby/quotes/nls/baby (BABY 14.81, +0.01, +0.07%) today announced that it has acquired Medix, a leader in the development, manufacturing, and sales of devices for newborn care in Latin America. Medix, based in Argentina, manufactures incubators for use in hospital nurseries and neonatal intensive care [...]

Boston Scientific Corporation is to acquire Athmatx. Inc, from Synnyvale, California for an upfront payment of $193.5 million plus additional payments of up to $250 million. Boston Scientific says it has just signed a definitive merger agreement with Athmatx. Asthmatx designs, makes and sells a less-invasive, catheter-based bronchial thermoplasty procedure for persistentasthma treatment in patients [...]