However, in a subsequent analysis, where clinical investigators excluded three patients selected for the device group because they had a stroke before the device was implanted, the results were statistically significant.
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The medical-device giant Medtronic already has a small group working on a prototype device to see what would be needed to make optogenetics therapy possible.
And due to failure to roll out device management software and write group polices, they are hesitant about letting employees bring their tablets in for work.
According to a study by the industry group AdvaMed, the device tax alone could cost the industry more than 10% of its jobs, slashing some 43, 000 positions.
Loeb's group has developed a device that mimics human skin, but puts the actual sensors away from places where skin is likely to be damaged or worn out.
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Dr. Andrew Carr, chief executive of the biosciences group, says the device is critical not only to his own company's fortunes but also to turning around the beleaguered drug industry.
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Broad Group has developed a miniature device for measuring air pollution that can fit into mobile phones.
One Huthwaite-trained medical device salesman was asked by a hospital group to submit a sales proposal for some big machines like MRIs and X-ray devices that go for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
One Huthwaite-trained medical device salesman was asked by a hospital group to submit a sales proposal for some big machines like MRIs and X-ray devices that sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
When asked about the end of scaling, Dr. Kelin Kuhn, Intel Fellow, Technology and Manufacturing Group and director of Advanced Device Technology, rattled off a list of prior technical challenges and the technology advances that moved the industry past those limitations.
He is one of a small group of doctors allying with medical device firms hoping to shake up the status quo.
The device features a D-Pad -- the group of four buttons that looks like a plus sign and has been found on the left side of Nintendo remotes for decades.
Though it is still early, the school says its first survey of the test group already points to high satisfaction with the device.
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Over the last few years, the mobile phone has emerged as a popular device for what at first may seem an unlikely user group: the deaf and other people who are hard of hearing.
Faisal Javi, a spokesman for Kandahar's governor, said the roadside bomb exploded in Mewand district, which has a strong Taliban presence, but he said the group had not yet claimed responsibility for planting the device.
KDDI, a mobile and fixed line communications company in Japan, has developed extensive information about its customers through the data it collects including URLs visited, type of mobile device, purchase history and buying habits, gender and age group.
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The group claim that the data grabbed contains user names, device names and phone numbers of the users affected.
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Called the Enterra, it was approved in 2000 under the FDA's humanitarian device exemption, which is for devices that target a very narrow group of patients.
Unlike most other portable media players on the market, the device will play EPAC files instead of MP3 (Motion Picture Experts Group, Audio Layer 3) files, the companies said.
But the hard work of inventing a powdered insulin and a delivery device that produces relief in a whiff was done by a determined group of scientists and engineers at Nektar Therapeutics.
Last week, hacker group AntiSec, and offshoot of the hacking group Anonymous, claimed that it has stolen the unique device identifiers (UDIDs) belonging to 12 million iPhones, iPads and iPod touches.
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Studies support that among this age group, the iPhone still ranks as the most coveted consumer device.
It turns out that the device can decrease the number of deaths from dangerous arrhythmias but in this group the deaths from other causes increased.
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First, a group of scientists in the UK developed a new energy-harvesting device that attaches to the joint between the thigh and shin.
Researchers measured brain activity of 47 healthy adults -- a small but scientifically valid size group for this type of study -- while using a mobile device.
Recently, Cepheid got 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (a pre-marketing submission to demonstrate that the device to be marketed is safe and effective) for GeneXpert to work on Group B Streptococcus.
So he joined the Vertical Group, a New Jersey venture capital firm that invested in medical-device companies.
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