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Power Medical Interventions > Successful Demonstration of Incision-Free Bowel Surgery > Resection and Anastomosis via the Colon > New Techniques > Possible Widespread Adoption of Incision-Free NOTES Surgery > Natural Orifice Surgery Consortium for Assessment and Research’s NOSCAR > Natural Orifice Translumenal Endoscopic Surgery NOTES

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Does the successful procedure further support the versatility and precision of the Intelligent Surgical Product Line? Are surgical techniques possible that allow for small bowel resection and anastomosis without abdominal incisions? Will the new technology accelerate the procedures related to Natural Orifice Surgery Consortium for Assessment and Research’s NOSCAR and Natural Orifice Translumenal Endoscopic Surgery […]

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Power Medical Interventions Inc > Langhorne Pennsylvania > Intelligent Surgical Instruments > Financial results > i60 reload revenue > Market acceptance and underpinning for future demand > Sales of green and blue reloads > Largest source of recurring revenue > Educate the marketplace and drive market penetration

Thursday, May 1, 2008

Will Power Medical use the remainder of 2008 to roll out i60, iDrive and other iSeries products? Is Michael Fard as Vice President of Operations implementing improvements to the manufacturing processes to enhance product quality? Will the efforts to reduce cash burn through ongoing cost reductions lead to the expected outcome?

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Natural Orifice Surgery NOS > Natural Orifice Surgery Consortium for Assessment and Research NOSCAR > Mark Talamini > University of California San Diego > School of Medicine > Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons SAGES 2008 > Natural-orifice gastric revisions > Covidien > Ethicon > USGI Medical

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

What is the value that the Natural Orifice Surgery NOS technique adds to a surgical procedure? Is NOSCAR surgery enthusiasm self-serving in order to keep the research going? Which high-volume procedure will be the incentive to keep the NOS development rolling?

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Twenty-five years ago, typical appendectomy patients could expect […]

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Power Medical Interventions PMI > Provisional stay of enforcement to resume sales of Circular Stapler Products in Germany > Pending Patent Litigation With Ethicon Endo-Surgery > European patents owned by Ethicon Endo-Surgery

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Do PMI products infringe on the European intellectual property rights of Ethicon? Will the sale of the SurgASSIST circular stapler product continue inspite of the lawsuit? Does PMI’s ability to prevail in two of the three lawsuits validate the integrity of PMI’s intellectual property?

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Power Medical Interventions(r), Inc…announced today that the Court […]

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Power Medical Interventions Inc PMI Receives FDA 510k Marketing Clearance for iDrive Intelligent Surgical

Tuesday, January 8, 2008

Is the iDrive a step towards computer-assisted, power-actuated endomechanical instruments for use in minimally invasive surgery? Are Robotic Articulating Endoscopic Linear Cutter making the conventional linear staplers obsolete? Will there be more Intelligent Surgical Instruments developed for use in the emerging field of Natural Orifice Translumenal Endoscopic Surgery NOTES?

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