Archive for September, 2008
Friday, September 12th, 2008
The versatility of polyurethane is now even greater with the availability of a technique that can intentionally design polyurethanes to have a specific set of properties for a specific application.
For orthopaedic and cardiovascular implant applications, polyurethane can be intentionally designed to be resistant to degradation. For applications where degradation is ...
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Thursday, September 11th, 2008
Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research have developed a polymer that is hydrophobic at 37°C but hydrophilic at room temperature. At the elevated temperature, the polymer is suited for use as a culture substrate for biological cells. After the temperature decreases, the cells easily detach from the ...
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Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
The housing market may be sitting idle, but acquisition activity appears to be brisk among subcontractors that supply products and services to medical device manufacturers. It was announced today that full-service design and development company MedTech Development LLC (Sunnyvale, CA, USA) has been purchased by Tronics Microsystems S.A. (Crolles, France). Described as ...
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Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
Nanotechnology has been the growing focus of exciting research and discovery for more than a decade. And experts are expecting that nanometer particles will become a lot more important in the future than they already are today. A huge market for medical products is being predicted for the coming decades, ...
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Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
Alsace BioValley announced on September 9 that it has signed a partnership agreement with GE Healthcare to carry out a feasibility study for setting up a technology platform in different fields of molecular imaging. The platform will focus on research and the translational medicine and will be accessible to the ...
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Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
A prototype PCI guiding catheter with two lumens from Hadasit, the technology transfer company of Hadassah Medical Organization, was successful in a preclinical test to determine proof of concept, it was announced on Sept. 5. Unlike conventional catheters, which have a single lumen, this device incorporates a second lumen to ...
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Friday, September 5th, 2008
Anyone involved with the irradation of medical products will view IMRP2008 as the must-attend event of this year. IMRP2008, the 15th International Meeting on Radiation Processing, takes place on 21–25 September 2008 in London, UK. The event offers an all-embracing technical, scientific and business programme of presentations and poster papers. ...
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Thursday, September 4th, 2008
A pacemaker may not seem like an obvious target for a hacker to pursue. But in March of this year, US researchers demonstrated they could hack an implantable cardioverter defibrillator using relatively inexpensive equipment. Although the risk may be remote, the potential implications are troubling, to say the least, because ...
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Thursday, September 4th, 2008
During the second day of the European Conference on Medical Polymers in Belfast, Don Fleming from Fleming Polymer Testing and Consultancy explained how capillary rheometry can be used to assess the radiation tolerance of polymers, predict when a failure may occur, and ultimately assist in selecting a grade of material.
The ...
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Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
As I was preparing for my very first trip to Northern Ireland to attend the Medical Polymers Conference at Queen’s University Belfast, organized by the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE), I figured I’d be on the safe side packing an umbrella and a raincoat. And boy am I glad I ...
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