Archive for the ‘Commercial opportunities’ Category
Monday, November 28th, 2011
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Sergey Tsyb was running late. The head of the Department of Chemical Industries and Bioengineering Technologies within Russia’s Ministry of Industry and Trade had agreed to meet with me ...
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Monday, July 19th, 2010
A solar-powered autoclave? Rest assured that this is not the brainchild of an overzealous environmental-minded engineer—the carbon footprint of all autoclaves currently in use would have to be infinitesimal. Rather, the device, which is not commercially available, is one of seven novel technological innovations submitted to the World Health Organisation ...
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Wednesday, May 5th, 2010
Qualoria went live today with a web-based Asset to Partnering product aimed at the life sciences industry. The matchmaking service showcases relevant assets to companies with the resources to give them a commercial life. Although heavily weighted towards the pharmaceutical sector, the partnering applies to diagnostic products and medical devices, ...
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Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
A fast, cheap and straightforward method to detect and identify pathogens (bacteria or fungi) present at even exceedingly low copy numbers in blood or tissue samples has been developed by scientists at the University of Oxford, UK. They expect the technology to enable correct diagnosis and same-day initiation of treatment ...
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Wednesday, January 13th, 2010
At a time when many companies are freezing recruitment, Coloplast, a leading supplier of wound, continence and stoma care appliances based in Peterborough, UK, is paying existing employees to help it find more. The company’s Talent Search scheme is offering existing staff a bonus of £600 if they introduce someone ...
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Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
GE’s $250 million “GE Healthymagination Fund” has a global focus and will make investments in highly promising healthcare technology companies. The formation of the fund is part of the company’s $6 billion Healthymagination initiative, a global commitment to deliver better healthcare to more people at lower cost. The fund will ...
Posted in Commercial opportunities, R&D funding, medtechinsider | 1 Comment »
Monday, September 21st, 2009
According to the US National Cancer Institute, thousands of people suffer from small intestine disorders and many of those cases result in death. The key to reducing these statistics is early detection. Gastrointestinal bleeding is another common life-threatening ailment that may arise for the small intestine. The upper gastrointestinal tract ...
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Friday, August 21st, 2009
The accelerating rise in antibiotic resistance is driving demand for new and more effective therapies to treat and prevent the spread of bacterial disease. Despite efforts to screen for new antibiotics, microorganisms continue to develop resistance at an increasingly rapid rate to all the therapies available to date. Identification and ...
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Friday, August 14th, 2009
The UK National Health Service is asking healthcare technology companies to get involved in developing six products that that do not currently exist. Practicing clinicians from the two fields of ambulance services and paediatrics have specified the design attributes and business opportunities that each product presents. Funding will be available ...
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Friday, July 10th, 2009
Surgeons find knot tying difficult and frustrating, especially in the growing field of minimally invasive surgery, which requires extremely small instruments. Knots also concentrate tension in one area, which can further damage the tissue they are supposed to repair. Researchers at the University of Florida have developed a new fastener ...
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Sunday, May 31st, 2009
Intravenous (IV) therapy is often preferred over the oral route for administering drugs/fluids, explains IV Select’s Chairman, Edric Ackland-Snow. The two main reasons for this are speed of entry into the arterial system and because the drug does not go through the digestive system and have to be metabolised by ...
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Friday, April 24th, 2009
The invention by the Chinese University of Hong Kong is a new method for ameliorating the onset of osteoporosis and other conditions involving loss of musculoskeletal integrity and function.
It is estimated that 1 in 3 women and 1 in 12 men over the age of 50 worldwide have osteoporosis. It ...
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