News Digest 15.09.2023-18.09.2023
Regulators
The Ministry of Health will create a special commission for the purchase of medical products by trade names
The Ministry of Health has developed a draft regulation on an interdepartmental commission to develop a list of medical devices and specialized medical nutrition products purchased for patients for medical reasons under specific trade names.
Representatives of the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the Federal Antimonopoly Service, Roszdravnadzor and Rospotrebnadzor will resolve the issue for each type of such product.
Market news
Olympus Medical Systems Corp. recalls batches of endoscopes
Olympus Medical Systems Corp. is carrying out a voluntary recall of batches of endoscopes due to endoscopes getting stuck in the endotracheal tube connector.
Source: https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/ires/index.cfm?Event=92779/#
Other
Sechenov University has developed an innovative method for diagnosing osteoarthritis
Scientists from PMGMU named after. THEM. Sechenov, the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation presented a special probe, with the help of which, during arthroscopy, the doctor can find out accurate information about the quality of intra-articular tissues. The action of the product is based on optical spectroscopy. The new diagnostic method received grant support from the Russian Science Foundation in the amount of 18 million rubles.On the basis of the Institute of Regenerative Medicine of Sechenov University with the participation of specialists from the Department of Traumatology,
Orthopedics and Disaster Surgery of the ICM named after. N.V. Sklifosovsky conducted experimental work on explants of the knee joint of patients with osteoarthritis, as a result of which it was established that the optical parameters obtained during measurements can be used to assess the condition of articular cartilage in clinical practice.
Source: https://t.me/vademecum_live/11406
An international group of scientists has created a test to determine chronic fatigue syndrome in the blood
The authors took as a basis the fact that in CFS, the energy function in cells is disrupted. Therefore, in the developed blood test, the result is determined by peripheral blood mononuclear cells (immune T cells, monocytes and lymphocytes). In the experiment, specialists tested blood samples from 61 patients with CFS and 16 without it. The data was then loaded into the neural network so that the algorithm could learn from the information received. After which the approach was tested on 2 thousand cells from 98 patients. The system worked with 91 percent accuracy. In the future, the team plans to continue optimizing the test.
In September, Cornell University researchers showed that viral infections can cause chronic fatigue syndrome.
Source: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/advs.202302146
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