Archive for the ‘Combination Products’ Category

BIOMEDevice: IP Insights

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

C’est clair et net, as a French friend of mine used to say, punctuating the phrase with clarinette (French humour—don't ask): there is immense interest in combination products. The first BIOMEDevice Europe event, co-located with Pharmapack in Paris at the beginning of the week, was tremendously successful. The show floor ...

BIOMEDevice: Enabling Technologies for Manufacturing Combination Products

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

[caption id="attachment_11873" align="alignleft" width="70" caption="Marc Klinkhamer"][/caption] At the two-day BIOMEDevice conference taking place in Paris next week, industry professionals from the pharmaceutical, medical device and biotechnology industries have the opportunity to learn more about new enabling technologies, solutions and regulatory frameworks. The first day of the conference provides general information about combination ...

BIOMEDevice Debuts in Paris

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

The BIOMEDevice Europe conference and exhibition gets underway next month at the Grande Halle de la Villette in Paris. Co-located with Pharmapack on 1 and 2 February, BIOMEDevice is described as the first European event dedicated to combination products, a convergence of medical device and pharmaceutical technology and, in some ...

New Computer Model Simulates Drug-Eluting Stent Behaviour In Vivo

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

[caption id="attachment_3999" align="alignleft" width="350" caption="Taken from MIT’s computer-modeling software, this image shows the arterial drug distribution patterns for three different scenarios of drug release in a single stent. Blood flow in this 3-D simulation is from left to right. Red represents the highest concentration of drug release and blue represents ...

Researchers Develop Needle-Free Testing Device for Diabetes

Sunday, October 12th, 2008

Here's a shot of good news for diabetics: they may soon see a day when they will no longer have to prick their fingers to check blood glucose levels, reports Shane Hickey in the Hoya, the newspaper of record of Georgetown University (Washington, DC). Teams of researchers from the Georgetown Advanced Electronics ...

A New Pharma–Device Meeting of Minds Began Here

Friday, September 26th, 2008

The dramatic convergence that is creating new drug–device combination products needs to be matched by a similar convergence of the pharmaceutical and medical device industries if this area is to make swift progress, said John Masefield, STERIS Isomedix, at yesterday’s radiation industry workshop. The market for combination products that contain ...

US Company Announces Combination Product Award

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

ISSAC Medical, which is the parent of contract manufacturer Innovative Surgical Products (Tustin, CA, USA) and Specialty Silicone Fabricators (Paso Robles, CA, USA), has announced that it will award US$10,000 to an individual or a group that best demonstrates innovation in the field of combination products. “There is good ...