"We're not trying to burden tanning salons, " said Dr. Jeffrey Shuren, FDA's director for medical devices.
For medical devices, delays are a big problem because product cycles are fast.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) launched its competitive bidding program for medical devices and equipment in 2009.
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Webb, who holds some 40 patents, largely for medical devices, has yet to show the product to national retailers, rather seems to be focusing on a marketing and PR campaign to spread the word.
Prices and reimbursements for medical devices will continue to be negotiated between the device industry and insurance companies, retail establishments, and the federal government, in the case of veterans and active duty service members.
Shares of Wilson Greatbatch, which makes batteries for medical devices, jumped more than 5% after the company beat the Street by 13 cents in the fourth quarter and offered inline guidance for fiscal year 2009.
According to a study coauthored by Josh Makower, a professor of Medicine at Stanford University, patients in America must wait two full years longer, on average, than those in Europe for medical devices to hit the market.
Diagnostics for All, a Massachusetts-based start-up that has developed paper-based diagnostic tests the size of a postage stamp, chose to commercialise its idea in the developing world so as to circumvent America's hideously slow approval process for medical devices.
The price distortions in the CMS program are likely to ricochet throughout the health sector, making it difficult if not impossible to find the true competitive price for medical devices in the future, according to Tom Bradley, chief of Medicare cost estimates at the Congressional Budget Office.
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Dr Fraser and the other specialists called for a standardised guidance system on assessing high risk medical devices, the introduction of rules for newer devices such as electronic medical records that are not currently scrutinised, more consistent advice on clinical testing and more information on standards and study results.
In April 2010 RIM bought QNX Software Systems, a maker of operating systems for cars and medical devices.
Aetna offers discounts for gym equipment and medical devices that can be used at home.
This is not a tax on consumers and claims that the tax will result in higher prices for prosthetics or other medical devices are wrong.
That can lead to shortages for key types of medical devices.
It is supposed to be one of the most biologically inert substances known, and has been used in various forms in a wide range of other medical devices for decades.
Tens of thousands of cardiologists, scientists and drug industry employees will converge in New Orleans this Saturday for the annual meeting of the American College of Cardiology, a showplace for new medicines and medical devices.
The so-called autonomous adaptive structures are part of a long-term research into shape-memory healing which could impact long-term developments of implantable medical devices, for instance.
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One of Nektar's earliest hires was Adrian Smith, a mechanical engineer who had designed ink-jet printers for Hewlett-Packard and medical devices at venerable design firm IDEO.
Further, physicians tend to like gadgets and tools and have taken up mobile technologies, in particular the iPhone, iPad and iPad mini at unprecedented speed for devices in the medical field.
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Congress is already mulling a bill that would overturn a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that made it almost impossible to sue manufacturers over Food and Drug Administration-approved medical devices, for example.
The FDA, an agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, protects the public health by assuring the safety, effectiveness, and security of human and veterinary drugs, vaccines and other biological products for human use, and medical devices.
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The dispute began less publicly in 2006, when a consultant reviewer, Robert Smith, a controversial radiologist formerly at hospitals operated by Yale and Cornell, and several center employees raised concerns that the agency was overlooking safety concerns in approving substandard medical imaging devices for mammograms and colonoscopies.
In addition to his work at Scripps, he is vice chairman at the West Wireless Health Institute, a nonprofit medical research organization dedicated to innovating, validating, and advocating for the use of technologies, including wireless medical devices, that aim to reduce health care costs by transforming medicine.
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But its biggest and most controversial application is as a hardener for making polycarbonate plastics and epoxy resins the materials of choice for manufacturing clear, shatter-proof bottles, spectacles, medical devices and CDs as well as dental coatings and linings for food cans.
The leader in the group is Cytori Therapeutics (CYTX), which develops and makes medical products and devices for regenerative medicine.
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Elast-Eon was designed at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) in Melbourne, Australia, as a biostable material for use in life-critical medical devices such cardiovascular implants.
It seems our elected officials realized this tax, which applied to gross sales, not profits, just might serve as a disincentive for medical device makers to innovate new devices.
Graphene is far stronger than steel, more conductive than copper and more flexible than rubber so it could potentially open up entirely new avenues for manufacturing, consumer products and medical devices.
And there was an exception to that for sales of food, medicine and medical devices to Iran.
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