ExThera Medical, a developer of blood filtration systems and biotechnologies, has received Expedited Access Pathway (EAP) designation from FDA for its latest technology, the Seraph 100 blood filter.

The Ebola outbreak in West Africa has claimed at least 2,500 lives, and a treatment or vaccine is still at least months or years away. But what if deadly viruses like Ebola can be effectively treated ...

MARTINEZ, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A new peer-reviewed case-study by COL Stephen Olson, M.D. and colleagues at Walter Reed Army Medical Center determined that ExThera Medical’s Seraph 100 ...

Bob Ward ’71, ’12 (H) has earned a national reputation for the breakthrough technologies he has developed for the medical device industry. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, he turned his attention to ...

Cytokine storms created by COVID-19 are causing major organ destruction and death, and for the first time in the United States, when patients begin to show signs of trouble, physicians are replacing ...

In patients with blood clots in the veins of their legs — a debilitating condition called deep-vein thrombosis — physicians sometimes implant miniature filters to prevent the clots from migrating to ...

BOSTON, June 3, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Haemonetics Corporation (NYSE: HAE), a global medical technology company focused on delivering innovative hematology solutions to drive better patient outcomes, ...

A new filter fires ultrasound at tiny tubes of blood to separate out blobs of fat. The device could stop fat getting into the brain during heart surgery, say its Swedish developers. On the operating ...

Engineers have devised a computer model of how slits in the spleen filter blood. The model shows that these slits determine the size, shape, and flexibility of red blood cells. Red blood cells must be ...

In patients with blood clots in the veins of their legs a debilitating condition called deep-vein thrombosis physicians sometimes implant miniature filters to prevent the clots from migrating to the ...