Archive for the ‘Industry News’ Category
Monday, August 30th, 2010
According to a current survey by German Medical Technology Association BVMed, job vacancies in the medical industry can be found in 96% of the companies. However, it is becoming increasingly difficult for the companies to recruit adequately qualified staff, states the report. In the survey in which 94 BVMed member companies participated, ...
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Monday, July 26th, 2010
A revamped lancing device for a blood sugar measurement system contains a band with test fields for 50 tests instead of individual test strips and can be docked onto a measurement device. Patients benefit from the combined pricking and measurement functions. The development of this fifth-generation device is described in ...
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Sunday, May 2nd, 2010
How important is the domestic medical device industry to the German economy as a whole? Germany's industry association BVMed did the numbers in the recently published 2009/2010 annual report. To wit:
Approximately 10% of jobs in Germany are healthcare related.
Healthcare spending represented 10.4% of gross domestic product in 2007, and it ...
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Friday, April 2nd, 2010
A new Life Sciences Innovation Delivery Board (LSIDB) has been set up to champion innovation in drugs and medical technologies in the UK’s National Health Service (NHS). The LSIDB wants to increase the use of cost-effective medicines and medical technologies, improve relationships between the life sciences sector and the NHS ...
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Wednesday, March 31st, 2010
Automation specialist, ATS Automation Tooling Systems Inc. is to purchase the Sortimat Group, a manufacturer of specialised assembly systems for medical products and pharmaceutical dosing devices, reports ECOreporter.de.
Headquartered in Germany, Sortimat is experienced in advanced system development, manufacturing, handling and feeder technologies primarily for healthcare products, which account for approximately ...
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Wednesday, March 24th, 2010
City University London, UK, is introducing a new Masters course in September 2010 to address the growing global need for trained professionals, who can develop and manage the advanced technologies on which healthcare provision increasingly depends. The MSc in Clinical Engineering with Healthcare Technology Management has been developed to provide ...
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Monday, March 1st, 2010
On the Wire: A new campaign has been launched to put pressure on the UK National Health Service (NHS) to examine where its medical instruments come from, reports BBC News.
The British Medical Association (BMA) says at least one fifth of surgical instruments are made in northern Pakistan, where child labour ...
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Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
The European Parliament has voted in favour of President Barroso’s new Commission team. The Medical Devices Unit falls under Commissioner Dalli’s new competencies in DG SANCO. Eucomed, the European medical technology industry association said in an announcement that it especially looks forward to working with John Dalli, the Commissioner for ...
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Monday, February 8th, 2010
MedilinkWM is reinforcing its position and activities in the assisted living sector. The new name for its division dedicated to this sector is Alvolution (previously i-Health). The name has been created to reflect the organisation's role and position in stimulating the next stage in the evolution of technological advances for ...
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Monday, February 1st, 2010
SGS has extended its medical device Notified Body status to include Directive 98/79/EC for in vitro diagnostic (IVD) medical devices. The company’s initial scope of designation as an IVD Directive Notified Body includes all LIST B devices and Self-Test IVD devices. This scope will be further expanded to include all ...
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Friday, January 22nd, 2010
From the Wire: Dr Jeffrey Shuren has been appointed permanent Director of FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH). He previously served as Acting Center Director after the resignation of Dan Schulz in August 2009. FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg appointed Shuren to the job on a permanent basis on ...
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Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
EDANA, the trade association serving the nonwovens and related industries has announced its programme of events and training courses for 2010 and early 2011. Pierre Wiertz, General Manager of EDANA, said, “With a global scope and outlook, we are pleased to support our members and the broader industry with activities ...
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