Engineer Tried to Save His Sister and Invented a Breakthrough Medical Device
Posted on September 9, 2009 Comments (4)
Here is another remarkable example of the great benefit engineers provide society.
How a software engineer tried to save his sister and invented a breakthrough medical device
There are billions of dollars spent every year on clinical studies. I was surprised to discover that there were sometimes clinical studies of treatments for which there were no clinical applications. The trials would show successful results but no clinical applications.
I found a 1987 Italian funded set of clinical studies that showed successful treatment of tumors by the application of chemotherapy directly into the tumors. But I could find nothing since then.
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It took us two years to do the engineering. And it has taken the FDA seven years and two months to approve the product for sale. We were able to shorten the FDA process a little by saying that it was similar to other devices that had already been approved.
Great stuff.
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September 11th, 2009 @ 3:07 am
This useful videos for handling tumor… so many people get sick like that every man or woman… This videos open my mind that any much way to handle tumor.. Thanks…
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