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Just now out in the press is the news that
CEA-Leti and five partners are combining their expertise to develop a self-powered cardiac pacemaker eight times smaller than current models.
The Heart-Beat Scavenger (HBS) Consortium, which also includes the Sorin Group, TIMA, Cedrat Technologies, Tronics and EASII IC, is targeting an energy self-sufficient device that harvests mechanical energy from the movements of the heart, eliminating the need for batteries and post-implant surgeries to replace them.
A longer-term goal of the project is to reduce healthcare expenditures. Heart failure represents one of the biggest public-health costs today in Europe and the United States.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced steps to help reduce the risk of exposure to improperly reprocessed devices that can lead to the transmission of disease.
Medical devices intended for repeated use are commonplace in health care settings. They are typically made of durable substances that can withstand reprocessing, a multistep process which includes cleaning, disinfecting, or sterilization to remove debris and biologic materials that may transmit infection between patients. While successful reprocessing of reusable devices occurs routinely in health care settings, there are some devices which present particular challenges to reprocessing.
About
The Seminar has been jointly funded by AICTE and JISCE with the objective of providing a forum for interaction among academicians, industry experts, and doctors, faculties leading to sharing of research ideas, methodologies and practices. A series of invited talks & papers will be delivered on various important topics. Some of them are Biomedical Instrumentation, Biomedical Signal & Image Processing, Biomaterials & Artificial organs. Selected papers will be published in the Seminar Proceedings along with Best Paper Award.
Registration Details
Important dates
31st May 2011:Last date for abstract submission
10thJune 2011: Notification for abstract acceptance
This is a preview of National Conference on Biomedical Engineering Research and Application in Kolkata, 29-30th July-2011.
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What should Biomedical Engineering Students do now. They are busy in making projects which have long names but only little bit of innovation which serves the cause of improving healthcare. If this is the case . How will the technology develop?
What the Industry is looking after now?
What shall a Biomedical Engineer do to get good jobs?
How does one win over emerging markets like Asia? This is an inevitable question asked by most leaders of medical device companies who are planning growth strategies. Let’s try answering it. Like any market, emerging markets want product innovations relevant to their local healthcare needs. Local experience is an essential aspect for achieving this.
This is a preview of “Local Healthcare R&D:The Need of the Hour ” Pulse of the Biomedical Market.
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About the conference
2011 International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Biotechnology(BEB2011), to be held, in Shanghai China, 28-30 October, 2011, is one of the special tracks within the World Congress on Engineering and Technology (CET2011). BEB 2011 will be an open platform for researchers, engineers and academicians from all over the world to communicate their latest research results and development activities in Biomedical Engineering and Biotechnology.
Important Dates
Paper submission due: April.30,2011
Acceptance notification: Jun.15,2011
Camera-ready due: Jun.15,2011
Conference: Oct.28-30,2011
Topics: The conference is soliciting state-of-the-art research papers in the following areas of interest:
This is a preview of BEB 2011-International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Biotechnology.
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