NPPA to regulate price of 14 more medical devices

The National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) has started scrutinising more medical devices that it says are being sold at inflated […]

Medtronic gets CE Mark for its Smallest Pacemaker

Medtronic plc has announced that it has received CE Mark of the Micra Transcatheter Pacing System (TPS), one of the […]

Fortis Malar Performs India’s First LVAD Implant

The device performs the function of the left ventricle of the heart and pumps the blood when the heart is too weak to […]

Innovation Central in Heart Care

Research, innovations and continually developing healthcare infrastructure in India is key Dr Suhas Prahlad Hardas, Consultant & Interventional Cardiologist, Ruby […]

Mind-Controlled Bionic Limbs Holding Promise, and the Demand is Growing say IEEE Experts

The age-old fascination with machines mimicking humans has frequently manifested itself in science fiction literature and cinema, mainly because authors and directors could only wildly speculate about these

Engineering Bio-Medical Marvels : Dr. Rajat Aggarwal, Implants, University of Southern California

In addition to the routine clinical work, Dr. Agarwal is involved in the Artificial Retinal Implant project, being carried out in collaboration with Texas Instruments, which aims at developing a complex artificial epiretinal device in patients with advanced retinitis pigmentosa and age-related macular degeneration, which will help these patients see again.

A HELPING HAND

[This article was published in the January 2007 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]

The Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) of the USA has initiated its efforts to revolutionize prosthetic devices for amputee soldiers.