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12.29.08
The Boston Globe: Medical devices lag in iPod age. Patients' safety is at risk, experts say

12.16.08
New York Times: Looking Under the Hood and Seeing an Incubator

12.15.08
Boston Globe: He is 'The Man' of life-saving devices

12.08.08
Design News: Practice Makes Perfect
From life-sized, interactive mannequins to virtual reality systems, simulators are transforming medical training

11.26.08
NECN.com: Cancer fighting innovation wins Kennedy Award
Video: Researchers are working toward cancer treatments that are tailored to target areas where tumor cells cluster. Dr. Yolonda Colson describes the treatments. She is the lead researcher in an advanced cancer-fighting team that recently won the "Kennedy award for healthcare innovation" from CIMT, the Center for the Integration of Medicine, and Innovative Technology. Dr. Colson is the only female Thoracic surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital...

11.17.08
Technology Review: The Future of Healthcare
Video: The technologies that are sure to better the industry.

10.29.08
Boston.com White Coat Notes: CIMIT conference displays reach of healthcare technology
Old and new converged at the CIMIT Innovation Congress Exploratorium yesterday, where medical devices were pitched for use from the battlefield to the hospital to the retirement home...

10.29.08
The Wall Street Journal: Medtronic Exec: Medical Devices ‘Finished’
Would-be medical-device entrepreneurs got a sobering message Wednesday at a Boston conference of academic researchers and medical-device companies. “You can’t keep stuffing gizmos into people to treat end-stage disease,” the keynote speaker said. “When biotechnology gets right, we’re finished. Because it’s restorative, not palliative as devices are”...

10.29.08
Live Science: Brain Zap Improves Dexterity
A slight zap of electricity to the brain could make righties better at using their left hands, a new study shows. Researchers from the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School used a non-invasive electrical stimulation technique to see if it made 16 healthy, right-handed volunteers better at using their left hand...

9.30.08
Digital HealthCare & Productivity.com: Open Source Research Tool
The virtual operating room may be a step closer to reality, thanks to the latest version of 3D Slicer, a new generation of freeware that has already been used for brain mapping, image guided surgery, virtual colonoscopy, and other biomedical research. The aptly named “Slicer” provides different views of the same subject on demand, such as vivid 3-D images of the brain, created from the raw data of two-dimension magnetic resonance (MR) images...

9.23.08
MassHighTech: Gel matrix mends damaged ACLs without surgery
Tom Brady may not need knee surgery after all. That is, if Martha Murray, an assistant professor and researcher in orthopedic surgery at Children’s Hospital in Boston, has anything to do with it. Murray has developed a promising new gel matrix that acts as a scaffold for the ACL healing process...

9.23.08
Boston Globe: Wounded Knees
Tom Brady's misery has plenty of company as millions of Americans every year endure torn ligaments and
shredded cartilage

9.23.08
Washington Post: Scarless Surgery Uses Body's Own Openings
When Albert Pagliuca got gallstones, his surgeon offered to remove his gallbladder with a new operation designed to hurt less, get him back to work more quickly and leave no visible scars. But there was one catch: Doctors would pull the organ out through his mouth...

8.27.08
Medical News Today: CIMIT Names Recipients Of Young Clinician Research Grants Worth $50,000 Each
CIMIT announces that six bright and promising medical professionals have been named recipients of the Young Clinician Award for 2008. The program is being supported by Johnson & Johnson's Corporate Office of Science and Technology, and each award is worth $50,000...

8.21.08
Boston.com White Coat Notes: Doctor's visits via Web cam get thumbs up
Patients like face-to-face doctors' appointments, but videoconference visits were almost as popular
in a small trial in Boston...

7.15.08
KTVU Channel 2: "A New Way to Perform Surgery"

7.9.08
MIT Tech Review: "Plug and Play" Hospitals, Medical devices that exchange data could make hospitals safer.
The bewildering variety of new medical devices in U.S. hospitals promises higher standards of care. But it also poses new opportunities for error. A growing number of physicians believe that the interoperability of medical devices--their ability to communicate with each other--could make hospitals safer and more efficient...

7.8.08
Advanced Imaging: Endoscopes Push Imaging Boundaries
Dating Back Centuries, Endoscopy Takes Advantage of Today's Cutting Edge Technologies

7.1.08
US Department of Defense: Center Develops Partnerships to Create Cutting-Edge Medical Technologies
The U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command’s Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center is dedicated to advancing the discovery of new and novel medical technologies and research and following them through to implementation, said the center’s director...

6.24.08
Channel 7 News Healthcast: Endoscopic imaging
A new high tech tool is giving doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital a jump on preventing cancer.
Bill Temm, 61, of Scarborough, Maine is undergoing a new and innovative treatment for catching cancer before it develops. It's called optical imaging. Doctors use fiber optic technology to detect pre cancerous cells...

5.15.08
Philadelphia Bulletin: Surgery Revolution
In 1985, when Sam Kravitz had his appendix out, his surgeon opened his belly with a scalpel and removed the offending organ, leaving him with a seven-inch scar after a four-day hospital stay...

5.5.08
Mass High Tech: Return to Vietnam renews CIMIT founder Parrish's vision
John Parrish returned from his year of duty as a battlefield doctor in Vietnam 40 years ago, but the Boston physician's mission to improve treatments for soldiers has endured...

5.2.08
Boston Business Journal: Boston group to deliver $5M in research grants
Early-stage projects target blood infections, HIV and breast cancer
A group of Boston teaching hospitals and engineering schools will commit more than $5 million in grants to 26 medical-research teams in Massachusetts beginning this October...

5.2.08
Boston.com White Coat Notes: CIMIT awards $5m in grants for medical technology
A Boston consortium that brings together medicine and engineering has awarded $5 million to 28 research teams, including major grants to combat life-threatening blood infections, to detect viral illnesses, and to use nanoparticles to halt the spread of cancer...

5.1.08
Boston.com White Coat Notes: CIMIT clone: MIMIT
A Boston consortium of hospitals and engineering institutions that spurs innovation in medical technology has formed an affiliate in northwest England...

4.14.08
Newsweek: Open Wide. No, Wider. Are we ready for an era of 'natural-orifice surgery'?
Twenty-five years ago, typical appendectomy patients could expect to spend as many as seven days in the hospital and the rest of their lives with a two-inch scar on their bellies...

3.14.08
Boston.com: Dr. John A. Parrish Mentioned in White Coat Notes Notables

3.7.08
Mass High Tech: MIMIT mimics CIMIT. Techie docs hop the pond
After 10 years of spurring development of new medical devices, a Boston nonprofit consortium of clinicians and engineers is exporting its business model to the United Kingdom...

3.6.08
National Defense Magazine: Creating the Body's Microenvironment to Grow Artificial Organs
Whether due to disease, injury or other causes, millions of Americans suffer tissue loss or organ failure every year. Those who need replacements are put on organ donor lists. But the supply falls far short of demand...

2.25.08
Boston.com: CIMIT makes largest-ever grant for scar-free surgery
CIMIT has awarded a three-year, $2.1 million grant to a group of area doctors working on a new kind of minimally invasive surgery...

1.24.08
The Engineer Online: Medical research centre launched
A research centre known as MIMIT (Manchester: Integrating Medicine and Innovative Technology) has been launched to combine the talents of medics and engineers to solve clinical problems...

1.23.08
England's Northwest: Manchester aims to replicate Boston's medical success
Manchester has said that it hopes to recreate the success enjoyed by the Boston-based Centre for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology (CIMIT), following the launch of a new medical research centre in the city...

1.21.08
Science l Business: Manchester launches new medicine research collaboration
A new research centre bringing medics and engineers together to solve clinical problems is set to make Manchester a world leader in patient care...

1.18.08
Mass High Tech: Dr. Julian Goldman - Plug-and-play med devices could save lives
Physician Julian Goldman says patients are dying because of a lack of a widely adopted standard for the interoperability of medical devices -- a long-sought fix to link disjointed technologies in clinical settings...

1.8.08
American Society of Anesthesiologists: Scientific and Educational Exhibit Winners
First-place tie winners from Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School
The Committee on Scientific and Educational Exhibits has announced the winners for the ASA 2007 Annual Meeting held October 13-17, in San Francisco...

1.7.08
Boston Globe: Scar-free surgery. In new operation, doctors insert tools through natural orifices, keeping skin intact
It's mid-morning at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and the patient is lying flat on her back in the operating room, sedated. Her belly gently swells and falls as she breathes...

12.26.07
Boston Globe: Make a mistake, and this mannequin dies in battle. Dr. Steve Dawson and his team are creating a dummy that will die if you don't treat it right.
Dr. Steve Dawson and his team are creating a dummy that will die if you don't treat it right. Intended for training combat medics, the smart mannequin being built from scratch in his Massachusetts General Hospital lab...

12.1.07
IndUS Business Journal: Medical tech event reveals hot devices. Conference aims to pair doctors with technologists
The Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology’s ninth annual Innovation Congress took place in Boston and featured some of the latest emerging medical technology and brought together some of the most cutting edge researchers in the field...

11.29.07
NECN Video: Dr. Steve Dawson, Simulation Program create simulated patients for Army trauma medical training

11.14.07
Boston.com: CIMIT shows the future
Last night was a technophile’s dream at the Exploratorium, the CIMIT name for a room full of displays hinting at the future of medicine as envisioned by its member hospitals and universities...

10.05.07
Boston Business Journal: Transformed Toyotas can save lives -- as incubators
The "Transformers" science fiction movie that came out during the summer -- based on a 1980s-era toy line and cartoon -- made a big splash with its story about other-worldly robots that can morph and mold themselves into different objects...

9.20.07
Science Daily: A Step Toward Tissue-Engineered Heart Structures for Children
Infants and children receiving artificial heart-valve replacements face several repeat operations as they grow, since the replacements become too small and must be traded for bigger ones. Researchers at Children's Hospital Boston have now developed a solution: living, growing valves created in the lab from a patient's own cells...

9.20.07
XConomy: BioEngine - One Step Closer to Artificial Liver Device
For almost as long as surgeons have been transplanting organs such as hearts, livers, and lungs, they’ve been frustrated by the scarcity of available organs, and have imagined a future where artificial organs might ease the shortage. One local transplant surgeon, Massachusetts General Hospital’s Joseph Vacanti...

8.28.07
Technology Review: Dr. Khademhosseini named among nation’s top young innovators
His research is focused on improving engineered tissue in a process called “living Legos.”

7.13.07
Boston Business Journal: Novel NOTES causes docs to rethink incision decision
Dr. David Rattner witnessed something on video a few years ago that blew his mind: a surgery performed in India in which a man's appendix was taken out through his mouth...

7.07
Gastroenterology & Endoscopy News: Hype, Theories on NOTES Abound, But Where It Is All Headed Is Anyone’s Bet (PDF)            

5.8.07
Boston Globe: He develops robotics to assist surgery
Nobuhiko Hata, a radiologist who invents new technologies for use in surgery, is currently developing a swimming robot that will wriggle through the gastrointestinal tract.

4.29.07
CNN.com: Surgeons go to new lengths to prevent scarring
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3.27.07
Boston.com: Contrast agent may shed light on breast cancer diagnosis
Dr. John Frangioni, CIMIT Investigator and researcher at BIDMC, has developed a way to make a contrast agent that binds to malignant micro-calfications in the breast . . .

3.26.07
The New York Times: How to improve it? Ask those who use it.
Dr. Nathaniel Sims, an anesthesiologist, has figured out a few ways to help save patients' lives. In doing so, he also represents a significant untapped vein of innovation for companies . . .

3.21.07
Boston.com: CIMIT gets grant to bring managers and scientists together
CIMIT collaboration facilitated by gift from John Abele and the Argosy Foundation

3.19.07
CNN: Made-for-the-military products put brakes on bleeding
The solution to curb severe bleeding was the same three years ago as 3,000 years ago -- gauze, applied with pressure. But the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have added groundbreaking and fast-working wound dressings to the medic's bag...

3.15.07
MIT Technology Review: 10 emerging technologies of 2007
John Guttag says using computers to automate some diagnostics could make medicine more personal

3.8.07
USA Today: Military prodded on brain injuries
The Pentagon needs a comprehensive plan to identify and treat tens of thousands of troops who may suffere from traumatic brain injury, the signature wound of the Iraq war . . .

3.7.07
Boston Magazine: Whole New Game Plan:
An ingenious injectible gel reinvents surgery for an injury that vexes young athletes
Each year more than 175,000 Americans tear their anterior cruciate ligament, or ACL, the major stabilizing tissue in the knee. About 38 percent of those are high schoolers, a number that keeps rising as more kids get involved in sports; the injury is especially prevalent in girls, who are five times more likely to suffer a knee rupture...

2.21.07
CNS News: CIMIT Launches Neurotechnology Program
Neurological disorders are a significant cause of suffering and premature death, and cost the United States an estimated $400 billion annually in medical bills and lost productivity. As the population ages, the percentage affected will continue to increase...

2.9.07
Mass High Tech: Surgeon makes 'gel gun' to heal female athletes' injuries
Dr. Martha Meaney Murray, through initial funding by CIMIT, has developed a new way to treat ACL injuries . . .

2.1.07
Anesthesiology News: ASA Panel on Medical Device Interoperability

1.21.07
Mass High Tech: Advice for health-care IT entrepreneurs
Health-care IT is a complex, dynamic business. A 200-bed hospital can have up to 100 software applications, each supplied by a different vendor. It takes up to five systems exchanging data to dispense a drug...