Cleaveland Clinic announced today their top 10 medical innovations list. The list includes technologies that are expected to have a significant impact on healthcare in 2008.
- Flexible Intraluminal Robotics
- Percutaneous Aortic Heart Valves
- RNA-based Therapeutics
- Convergence of advances in genome scanning and informatics to support clinical applications
- New oral anticoagulant drugs for treating and prevent thrombosis
- Live attenuated influenza vaccine for children as young as six months
- Image fusion for diagnostic and therapeutic use
- Implanted device allowing neural control of objects by the severely disabled
- Engineered cartilage products for joint repair
- Dual energy source computed tomography (CT) imaging
[Source: PRNewsWire]
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