Archive for the ‘Breaking News’ Category
Thursday, May 9th, 2013
Allegations of bribery among senior officials in Russia's medical device registrations division have prompted the government to suspend registration services, reports Emergo Group on its blog. Services will resume when the government has reorganized the registration division of its device regulatory agency Roszdravnadzor. In addition to hiring new personnel, the agency ...
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Friday, April 26th, 2013
Just a few days ago, we wrote about the defiant stance taken by Jean-Claude Mas, founder of Poly Implant Prothèse (Pip), who is on trial for fraud in Marseilles, France. He continued to claim that the Pip breast implants, which were formulated using industrial-grade silicone, were no more dangerous than ...
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Monday, November 12th, 2012
“The pieces are now in place for mHealth to take off in Europe,” writes Don Jones, vice president, global Strategy and Market Development Qualcomm Life in a recent blog post that cited reimbursement, regulatory, and wireless interoperability hurdles that have been overcome there. To help the process, Qualcomm Life recently ...
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Friday, July 8th, 2011
From the wire: Medisize Corp. announced today that it will be acquired by Phillips Plastics Corp. Phillips Plastics is a global leader in design, engineering and manufacturing for the medical, consumer, defense and automotive industries. Medisize partners with medical device OEMS in the development and manufacture of drug delivery devices, ...
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Monday, October 25th, 2010
Kyzen, a provider of environmentally responsible precision cleaning products for electronics and high-technology manufacturing operations, announces that it has signed an exclusive distributor agreement with Rotec bvba for Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg.
Rotec was originally founded in 1982 by Roland Fick as a distributor for soldering equipment and consumables serving ...
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Wednesday, October 13th, 2010
Rofin-Sinar Technologies Inc. (RSTI) has announced that it has agreed to acquire Lasag AG of Thun Switzerland and its worldwide operations in the United States, Germany, Japan and Italy. The deal is subject to customary closing conditions. Further terms of the acquisition have not been disclosed.
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Monday, August 2nd, 2010
Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, European Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science has announced a nearly €6.4 billion of European Commission (EC) investment in research and innovation for 2011, a 12% increase compared with this year’s investment. The programme is intended to create more than 165,000 jobs and develop “a more competitive and greener ...
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Friday, July 30th, 2010
Pantec Biosolutions AG, a privately owned company that develops transdermal drug-delivery technologies has announced that its first manufactured product, P.L.E.A.S.E. Professional received an "honourable mention" at the red dot award: product design 2010. The red dot awards for product design recognise outstanding international product design in a variety of industry sectors ...
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Monday, July 12th, 2010
Pilgrim Software Inc., a provider of enterprise risk, compliance and quality management (ECQM) software, has announced the global availability of its expanded Regulatory Reporting platform. In addition, the company has introduced the MedDRA adapter, which integrates with its Complaints Management product to simplify adverse event reporting to global ...
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Monday, July 5th, 2010
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A new, interdisciplinary study at City University London has been awarded £240 000 from The Leverhulme Trust to assess how industry regulators make decisions about safety under ...
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Friday, July 2nd, 2010
Aegis Software has announced an OEM agreement with Juki Automation Systems Europe, a supplier of automated assembly equipment for surface-mount applications to the European and African markets. Under this agreement, Juki will offer Aegis NPI software for BOM, CAD, Gerber and scanned board data conversion with their line-level management and ...
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Friday, July 2nd, 2010
Merit Medical has announced a €6.7-million expansion of its plant based in Galway, which will create 100 new jobs. The manufacturer, which manufactures guidewires and inflation devices as well as components for medical device OEMs, has had a presence in Galway since 1994. The Irish facility serves as the company's principal office ...
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