New Medical Device

Natural Cycles’ ad branding it as a "highly accurate contraceptive app" and a "clinically tested alternative to birth control methods" was banned by the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA). The UK supervisory body found the sponsored post to be deceptive after it received three grievances pertaining to it. The ad featured for nearly four weeks in the middle of 2017, before the company withdrew it from  being alerted about the complaint. The ASA cautioned it "must not appear again in the form complained about". The ASA advised the Swedish company,  "to take care not to exaggerate the efficacy of the app in preventing pregnancies."  The company’s spokesperson said it gave respect to the ASA’s decision. The Natural Cycles app, awarded with the CE mark in Europe and sanctioned as a medical device for contraception, is available to users on a subscription of a month or a year. Along with a basal thermometer, it helps in contraception...

A new member has been added to the Fitbit Charge Family namely the Fitbit Charge 3 with an additional feature of measuring the SpO2. The new version will hit the market in October.  “ With Charge 3, we are building on the success of our best-selling Charge franchise and delivering our most innovative tracker, offering an extremely slim, comfortable, and premium design, along with the advanced health and fitness features our users want. Charge 3 gives existing users a compelling reason to upgrade, while also allowing us to reach new users who want a sleeker, more affordable wearable in a tracker form factor ,” CEO Fitbit James Park said in a statement. The new version claims to identify indicators of allergies, asthma, or sleep apnea with its relative SpO2 tracker which enables the device to assess variations in blood oxygenation levels and spot breathing abnormalities. As included in its Pre-Cert pilot, aiming to develop FDA-monitored software for illnesses like sleep apne...

Designed to assist patients in breathing,  medical ventilators  forever changed the medical world. As medical technology advances, so do these life-saving devices. The Ddu (drugdu.com) team has listed 3 types of medical ventilators to help you decide which would be the smartest buy next time you decide to invest in one. Emergency ventilator In any given emergency situation, time is of the essence. Having the best available  emergency ventilator  is crucial to saving a patients’ life. These devices should be light-weight and portable as well as flexible in use for both adults and children. These ventilators are can also suitable for the ICU, like the  pneumatic driven electrically control ventilator  for both hospitals and ambulances. Paediatric  Medical Ventilator When it comes to the special needs of children,  medical ventilators  specifically designed for the pediatric needs of children is a valuable asset for any clinic, hos...

The demand for novel medical technologies seems to grow continuously. Hence there has been an increasing number of start-ups in order to fill the gaps by providing innovative solutions to persisting health issues. In this article, we will have a brief look at five of the world’s most promising medical device start-ups. Rubi Life This US-based medical device start-up is one of the joint winners of the Digital Health Technology Show’s Start-Up of the Year Award 2018. Rubi Life has earned a good name in the pregnancy device market since it has created the world’s first sensor containing a passive fetal wearable monitor named Rubi that can track fetal movement in the third trimester. Livongo Health This California-based start-up enables diabetic patients to connect to a virtual care team. This company completed a $105m round of funding, which would be further used to support market growth by developing the consumer platform. Day Zero Diagnostics This medical device st...

A new biomarker might possibly furnish new clues required to develop a diagnostic tool for hypoglycemia-associated autonomic failure (HAAF), an LSU Pennington Biomedical Research Center study found. There is no current objective diagnostic device for this life-threatening condition, if unchecked. "There is currently no objective way for a health care provider to measure whether a patient has experienced repeated episodes of low blood sugar and therefore may be suffering from HAAF," said David McDougal, Ph.D., assistant professor-research and head of Pennington Biomedical's Neurobiology of Metabolic Dysfunction Laboratory. Researchers at LSU Pennington Biomedical aimed to find ways via which biomedical imaging could present new solutions that enable measurement of occurrence of glucose level collapse. Instead of looking at glucose uptake in the directly in the brain, they focused on the adaptation of the brain after an incidence of crashed glucose leve...

Allotrope Data Format (ADF), a promising standard developed by a conglomerate of pharmaceutical companies is being implemented to export files from laboratories by the newly launched upgraded version of a chromatography data system owned by Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A). The Agilent data system, OpenLab CDS ChemStation Edition, is the first to back the new format, planned to standardize data from different sources. The ADF was designed to standardize the compilation, trade, and storage of analytical data procured in laboratory functions. ADF helps labs to transport and share data across platforms. It also claims to enable amplified automation, minimizing manual errors. " The development of ADF is an important step toward obtaining faster results and more insight from the data collected and produced within pharmaceutical organizations involved in research, development, and production of chemicals and biomolecules ,” said John Sadler, vice president and general mana...