Medical Devices/Equipment Consumer

There is a new alternative to having a total hip replacement. Now doctors are 'resurfacing' the bone instead.

In February, Boston Scientific said the Justice Department was investigating whether manufacturers had been promoting the devices for unapproved uses, among them the repair of weakened blood vessels.

It is one of the most audacious promises in a campaign that has been thick with them.

Researchers at Duke University Medical Center have developed a high-resolution imaging tool that can identify patients at risk for glaucoma decades before the disease claims their eyesight.

This patient education resource provides a step-by-step demonstration of how to use the GENOTROPIN PenЎ. Click the title for more information.

One study found that stimulating the back of the head with a handheld magnetic device – at the onset of a migraine – reduced migraine pain significantly.

Two letters signeed by 132 members of Congress urge a delay in the Medicare bidding program for home medical equipment.

CFC-propelled inhalers no longer available as of Dec. 31, 2008