Archive for the ‘Opinion’ Category
Wednesday, November 16th, 2011
The stunning revelations of how Olympus Corp. managed to cover up huge investment losses for more than 20 years is making Japanese doctors anxious about whether the scandal will hurt the company’s mainstay gastro-intestinal endoscope business.
“It’s nothing but a humiliation to all medical workers that Olympus took tens of billions ...
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Thursday, September 29th, 2011
Guest blogger Amy Munice from Global B2B Communications writes:
Is today’s Internet your friend? Alas, for the typical EMDT reader, I have a mixed answer.
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At about the same time as the first stirrings of the worldwide recession, the world’s search engines began to start favouring local companies. Localised ...
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Monday, August 8th, 2011
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Guest Blogger Martin Bryant, Vice President, Uson, writes:
Multinational medical device manufacturers in Europe and the United States have been talking up the possibilities of moving operations offshore. In July, the US Congress started hearings about whether, how and if the inefficiencies of regulatory bodies were ...
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Wednesday, May 18th, 2011
As noted in the Daily Buzz yesterday on emdt.co.uk, there has been something of a feeding frenzy among the media questioning the efficacy and safety of Europe's regulatory system for medical devices. One of the more colourful comments is attributed to Nick Freemantle, Professor of clinical epidemiology and biostatistics, writing ...
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Tuesday, January 18th, 2011
Sixteen years ago, the city of Kobe, Japan, was rocked by a cataclysmic earthquake. Miki Anzai, Associate Editor of Japan Medical Design & Manufacturing Technology, reflects on how medical technology has helped to heal the region.
On Monday, 17 January, Kobe and neighbouring cities commemorated the 16th anniversary of the 1995 ...
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Monday, January 10th, 2011
It seems as if 2010 was the year of medical apps for smartphones. Faster, easier, cheaper, more convenient and personalised are the buzz words these days. But can your smartphone really accurately monitor your heart rate? And how smart is it to rely on your smartphone for such vital information?
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Thursday, December 30th, 2010
Formerly with Roche Diagnostics and now the head of a consultancy in Indianapolis, IN, USA, catering to life science companies, Bruce Frank was recently interviewed by the Indianapolis Business Journal. His consulting work often brings him to Germany, and the conversation turned to the impressive manufacturing base that Germany has ...
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Monday, December 13th, 2010
If you want to patent your idea in Europe, you can apply in each individual country or you can go to the European Patent Office (EPO). In this day and age, it would be foolish not to go a centralised body, right? Well, there is one nagging detail that may ...
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Monday, November 22nd, 2010
Last week, in our Qmed Daily Europe newsletter, we included a story on Medtronic's recent launch of a European Web portal, which, the press release explains, is intended to "help physicians and medical technology inventors to bring their innovative ideas to life."
The article prompted a reader to send us an ...
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Tuesday, October 12th, 2010
A recent study found that 52% of Britain’s small- to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) use social media. However, 27% of those polled in the Forum of Private Business study expressed doubts about the value of the popular networking sites—21% described them as "not useful" and 6% went even further, labelling them "useless."
An article ...
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Friday, June 4th, 2010
Conventional health technology assessment (HTA) has one serious flaw: its [inability] to capture the full cost of not treating the patient in terms of both quantitative and qualitative measures of broader social impact, writes Eucomed Chief Executive John Wilkinson in his blog this month. The cost of lost workdays and ...
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Thursday, April 8th, 2010
Are cities that encourage parks, pedestrians and bikes increasing inequality in physical activity? That provocative assertion is made by Melvyn Hillsdon, a so-called exercise specialist at the UK's Exeter University. He is quoted in a supplement to the 7 April issue of the Financial Times devoted to the future of ...
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