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Jan Medical’s Nautilus Neurowave Platform Could Be a Game-Changer for Quickly Identifying Stroke and Other Brain Abnormalities

January 29, 2013 OneMedPlace Team 0

Every 21 seconds, someone suffers a serious brain injury, such as a stroke, which is the third-leading cause of death in the United States and the leading cause of long-term disability. Today, Jan Medical is on the cusp of commercializing its first application of a revolutionary system, Nautilus NeurowaveTM, designed to help doctors quickly identify vasospasm and strokes.

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Can SpineGuard Shake-Up the $7 Billion Market for Spinal Fusion Using Screws with its Safety Oriented Technology?

January 7, 2013 OneMedPlace Team 0

SpineGuard, based in San Francisco and Paris, is addressing a major unmet need in spine surgery: the safe placement of pedicle screws for both patients and OR personnel. PediGuard®, its core technology, is the world’s first and only handheld device capable of alerting surgeons to potential pedicular or vertebral breaches during pedicle screw site preparation.

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ExThera Medical: Will Its Seraph™ Device Eliminate Bacteremia and Prevent Sepsis at Point-of-Care?

December 13, 2012 OneMedPlace Team 0

The first start-up by Bob Ward—The Polymer Technology Group (PTG)—earned a 555X return for investors upon its sale in 2008 to DSM, the global life sciences and materials company. Now, Bob Ward’s swinging away at another potential homerun: ExThera Medical, a Berkeley, California-based company, with its scientific origins at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden.