The Cleveland Clinic, a leading U.S. medical center,
recently published a list of the top 10 medical technologies
it Health Care Executives and Medical Device Executives
should be on the watch for in 2007.
The innovations named to the list were selected by a
panel of Cleveland Clinic physicians and scientists,
reported the Association for the Advancement of Medical
Instrumentation:
Convection-enhanced drug delivery:
Drug delivery method to administer medication directly
to the site where it is needed without exposing the rest
of the body to the effects of the medication.
Left Ventricular Assist System: An implantable
device that helps the left side of the heart push blood
to the aorta. The device can sense when to increase
or decrease blood-flow rate.
Targeted cancer
therapies: Using cell growth inhibitors to treat cancers.
Endografting:
Treating vascular disease through a minimally invasive
repair technique traditionally used in cardiology.
Ranibizumab:
A drug therapy designed to inhibits uncontrolled blood
vessel formation in the eye — the
primary cause of age-related macular degeneration.
Bronchial
Thermoplasty: A therapy involving the application of
heat in the lungs to improve pulmonary function.
Optical
Coherence Tomography: A noninvasive imaging technology
used in the treatment and diagnosis of eye diseases.
Neurostimulation
for Psychiatric Disorders: Implantable devices designed
to treat those with treatment-resistant depression
and obsessive compulsive disorder.
Designer
Therapeutics Using Selective Receptor Antagonists:
Designing therapeutics to block peripheral side effects
of opioids.
Cancer Vaccines: Targeted therapies
used to prevent cancer and treat cancer patients according
to their particular forms of cancer.
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