Archive for the ‘medtechinsider’ Category
Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
A new generation of shape-memory alloys that can “remember” several shapes has the potential to revolutionise an array of products including medical devices. Multiple Memory Material Technology, developed by engineering researchers at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, will enable expanded functionality in devices such as stents, braces and ...
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Wednesday, August 25th, 2010
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A couple of months ago, we covered a microneedle antimicrobial technology developed by researchers at North Carolina State University. Now, researchers ...
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Wednesday, August 25th, 2010
A new approach to building an "artificial nose" – using fluorescent compounds and DNA – could accelerate the use of sniffing sensors into the realm of mass production and widespread use, say chemists at Stanford University. If their method lives up to its promise, it could one day have a ...
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Wednesday, August 25th, 2010
Do you have a winning idea for a technology that could spur economic growth in the United Kingdom? The Technology Strategy Board would like to hear about it. The governmental body invites businesses across the country to compete for support to develop innovative technologies that could create new growth areas ...
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Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
An article recently published on www.emdt.co.uk expains how acoustic micro imaging technology can identify latent defects in products during development and manufacture and prevent field failures. When a medical device fails during active use, the failure is often preceded by a latent defect of some type. If the failure is not ...
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Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
Switzerland has a new platform for the medical device industry: Medtech Switzerland. The Swiss Medical Cluster co-founded the platform on 9 August 2010 together with OSEC, Switzerland's official promotion agency for foreign trade. The aim of the platform is to provide manufacturers, suppliers and service providers with information about the most important ...
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Sunday, August 22nd, 2010
Pan-European trade association Eucomed has announced the full programme of the forthcoming MedTech Forum 2010. The event will feature discussions of such provocative issues as corruption in the healthcare system, the methodology and ramifications of health technology assessments and the way forward for medtech companies wrestling with a feeble economy. ...
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Friday, August 20th, 2010
US firm Potomac Photonics has demonstrated the feasibility of wireless sensor node miniaturisation. To fulfill a National Science Foundation Phase I SBIR contract related to energy storage, electrical distribution and packaging for wireless sensor networks, the company succeeded in reducing the volume of the current wireless sensor package by a factor of ten. ...
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Thursday, August 19th, 2010
Innomech, which specialises in the development of advanced automation systems, is helping to develop a low-cost way to uniquely mark healthcare products and improve product traceability. The technique not only will enable rapid identification and resolution of quality-related issues but it can serve as an anticounterfeiting tool because the coding ...
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Wednesday, August 18th, 2010
Last month, the NHS published a white paper titled "Equity and excellence: Liberating the NHS." The document recommends thorough structural reform, proposing that healthcare be "run from the bottom up, with ownership and decision-making in the hands of professionals and patients." A significant portion of the document outlines how improving healthcare outcomes will be ...
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Wednesday, August 18th, 2010
To state the obvious, emerging markets have different needs than developed economies. Consumers in India are not looking for a stripped-down Buick that guzzles gas and is impossible to navigate. Massive MRI machines will not have an impact on the rural population of Brazil that does not have the means ...
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Wednesday, August 18th, 2010
Leading-edge medical technology and a competent team of German doctors allowed Bono, frontman of the rock band U2, to return to the stage after undergoing back surgery nine weeks earlier. Without its lead singer, U2's 2010 European summer tour could not have taken place as scheduled. The 50-year-old singer had to ...
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