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What would you say to FDA commish?(EDITORIAL)
April 1, 2009... President Obama recently announced Margaret Hamburg as his choice for FDA commissioner. Hamburg is former New York City health commissioner, while newly named deputy commissioner Joshua Sharfstein is former Baltimore health commissioner. Both are doctors and FDA outsiders, and pending Senate...

Rapid 2009 emphasizes medical.(MEDICAL NEWS IN BRIEF)
April 1, 2009... North America's largest annual rapid manufacturing conference and exposition, The Rapid Conference & Exposition (sme.org/rapid), set for May 11-14 at the Schaumburg Renaissance Hotel & Convention Center, Schaumburg, IL, will devote much of its program to medical applications. Launched in...

Machine vision focuses on eye disease.(MEDICAL NEWS IN BRIEF)
April 1, 2009... Researchers at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, have borrowed a machine-vision technique used to find defects in ICs to seek out retinal diseases in patients. In a test project in Memphis, digital photos of patients' retinas are taken and relayed to a distant center housing a...

Pressure sensor inserts into femoral artery.(MEDICAL NEWS IN BRIEF)
April 1, 2009... An implant now under development could include a blood pressure sensor, about 1-mm dia. including its casing, that takes measurements about 30 times per sec. "A doctor would introduce the pressure sensor directly into the femoral artery in the groin," says Hoc Khiem Trieu of the Fraunhofer...

No stimulus for you.(INDUSTRY VIEWPOINT)
April 1, 2009... What a great time to talk about the recent stimulus package--tax month. It took me about a year to get through the 1,200 pages of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, so if you read like me, you'll finish the 1,100 pages of the spending bill (in the version I reviewed) by about March 2010, if you can...