Test of Brain Device Is Setback for Maker
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Results from a crucial clinical trial showed that Northstar Neuroscienceâs brain-stimulating device failed to help stroke victims recover the use of their arms and hands.
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Analysis: The company admits that most of its toy recalls were due to its own design flaws, not Chinese manufacturers. Lesson: Mattel needs China as much as China needs Mattel
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Brain scans have been developed which it is claimed can predict what a person is about to do.
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Regulators sign off on implantable tracking device to manage treatment of Alzheimer's, diabetes, heart disease, other conditions.
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In a setback for flu vaccine development, Deerfield-based Baxter International Inc. said today it has suspended enrollment in a late-stage European trial for a cell-based flu vaccine.
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An Israeli company is working on a new device to monitor oxygen levels in the brain.
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A  tiny 100 electrode chip was implanted in a 24-year-old quadriplegic's brain in June of this year. He's now able to send email and play videogames using only his thoughts. The whole package is dubbed BrainGate.
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Hundreds of brain cancer patients in France and perhaps others in the United States may be contacted about their radiation treatments from malfunctioning machines, which were ordered shut down by the French government after a manufacturer's warning.
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Neurochem gets another step closer to a bad idea.
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File will cause portable gaming device to malfunction, company says.
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The Food and Drug Administration is considering not using the word "recall" to warn patients and doctors about defective pacemakers and defibrillators at the request of a physicians' group struggling to deal with a loss of public confidence in the safety of implantable heart devices.
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Regulators who oversee Medicare said that they did not think it was reasonable to begin covering the implanted electrical stimulator to treat severe depression in patients who had failed with other therapies.
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An experimental helmet is being tested by scientists as a treatment for Alzheimer's disease.
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The computer maker's retail stores are pretty easygoing about customers playing with the display machines. But when it comes to running an in-store hardware test lab, the company draws the line. By Leander Kahney.
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One of Forest Labs' Alzheimer's drugs fails in Phase III trials.
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Â· Thousands of women urged to contact doctors Â· 44 kits could have given bogus negative results
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Controversy is brewing over tests of a new pill that would alter, or possibly erase, the impact of painful or traumatic memories.