Archive for January, 2009
Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
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In 2007, orthopaedic product manufacturer Nuvasive Inc. sought to enhance its Helix anterior cervical plating system by integrating a locking system to prevent screw fasteners from shifting and ...
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Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
The fast growing Middle East health care market is expected to be worth US$60 billion by 2025. The combination of a growing population and improving standards of living are creating heightened expectations in the standard of care. This, in turn, is driving investment in hospitals and medical facilities and pushing ...
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Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
Teknor Apex Company’s Vinyl Division has separated its production of medical grade poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC) compounds that contain di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP) and other phthalate plasticisers from its production of compounds plasticised with nonphthalate alternatives.
The changeover has taken place at two of the company's compounding plants in the US and could ...
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Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
To be precise, the Government of Ontario, Canada, is giving a grant of CAD$29.6 million to Agfa HealthCare, a provider of IT-enabled workflow and diagnostic image management solutions, and systems for capturing and processing images in hospitals and health care facilities. The award is to support operation centres in Toronto ...
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Tuesday, January 20th, 2009
Undaunted by economic turmoil, medical device manufacturers expect another year of double-digit growth in 2009, and several are looking to expand capacity, writes Plastics News reporter Mike Verespej in an article published on 12 January. But at the same time, manufacturers are placing a greater emphasis on efficiency, and some ...
Posted in Moulding, medtechinsider | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, January 20th, 2009
[caption id="attachment_3879" align="alignleft" width="250" caption="This patient-specific finite element model of the proximal femur of the hip joint was made with software from Ansys. Image courtesy VPHOP."][/caption]
Predicting the onset of osteoporosis among individuals may take a leap forward thanks to product development software from Ansys Inc. (Canonsburg, PA, USA). Its software is being ...
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Monday, January 19th, 2009
Many application areas of picosecond lasers are protected by a patent held by the University of Michigan. The patent covers microprocessing applications of ultrashort pulsed lasers used to ablate a variety of materials without heat effect in the surrounding area. Trumpf now offers users of its TruMicro Series 5000 the option of ...
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Friday, January 16th, 2009
"There is an enormous need for new ways of imaging plaques, which contribute to stroke, heart attacks, renal disease and peripheral vascular disease," says radiologist Mohammed Hamady of St Mary's Hospital, London, UK, in the New Scientist.
An MRI scan can see inside the body without risk, but it does not ...
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Friday, January 16th, 2009
The e2v Centre for Electronic Imaging (CEI) will be dedicated to the research and development of advanced technologies for electronic image sensing and provide knowledge exchange between industry and academia. The Open University and e2v will invest £3m over five years in new research activity through the e2v CEI.
e2v is ...
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Thursday, January 15th, 2009
[caption id="attachment_3823" align="alignleft" width="225" caption="Radi Kaiof, a former soldier paralyzed from the waist down, can walk using the ReWalk system."][/caption]
The first round of clinical testing has recently been completed for a mechanical suit that enables parapalegics to walk and even climb stairs. Known as the ReWalk, the system mimics a ...
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Thursday, January 15th, 2009
The US Food and Drug Administration has issued a new safety guidance for manufacturers and operators of hand-held X-ray systems.
This is reportedly required because at the time the previous standard for diagnostic X-ray systems was written it did not take into account these devices. Specifically, it did not address system ...
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Thursday, January 15th, 2009
Two established conferences are joining together to host the 4M/ICOMM 2009 event: the US based International Conference on Micromanufacturing and the International Conference on Multi-Material Micro-Manufacture, which has its roots in Europe.
Both conferences recognised that manufacturing at the microscale (a few microns to a few millimetres) will be critical in ...
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