Archive for December, 2009
Friday, December 18th, 2009
Nine UK components manufacturers have secured an estimated £1 million of export sales as a result of exhibiting at Compamed 2009 in Düsseldorf, Germany, as part of Medilink West Midlands’ (MedilinkWM) British Pavilion.
Run by industry specialists MedilinkWM and backed by UK Trade and Industry and Advantage West Midlands, the British ...
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Thursday, December 17th, 2009
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From the Wire: A new microscopic system devised by researchers in ...
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Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
In an effort to further strengthen its strategic partnerships with medical technology companies and help them to gain a competitive advantage, Sandvik MedTech has invested in a direct metal laser sintering machine (DMLS) from EOS. This will allow the company to shrink development time in creating working prototypes. Sandvik is ...
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Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
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The European Diagnostic Manufacturers Association (EDMA), announced on 15 December that it has published market estimates for the in vitro diagnostic (IVD) industry in Europe for 2008. European sales reached €10,016 million ...
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Monday, December 14th, 2009
From the wire: Icon plc, a global provider of outsourced development services to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries, has expanded its European Central Laboratory, located in South County Business Park, Dublin. The newly designed 3800-m² facility, which is three times the size of the previous laboratory, provides centralised ...
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Monday, December 14th, 2009
CAN in Automation (CiA) GmbH has scheduled a series of CANopen seminars.Controller Area Network (CAN) is a leading serial bus system for embedded control. The information provided in the seminars will enable development engineers and system integrators to judge if CANopen is suitable for their application. Within each one-day ...
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Sunday, December 13th, 2009
The organisers of eHealth Week 2010 want you to envision a world in which what’s old is new again, sort of. “Imagine that you don’t need to travel across town to see a doctor. Instead, the doctor comes to your doorstep,” notes a press release issued by event organisers last ...
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Sunday, December 13th, 2009
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Sabic Innovative Plastics has announced a comprehensive healthcare product policy designed to assist customers ...
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Friday, December 11th, 2009
Zarlink Semiconductor has announced that the Self-energizing Implantable Medical Microsystem (SIMM) microgenerator was recently honoured with the Emerging Technology Award at the Institution of Engineering and Technology’s Innovation Awards 2009 in London.
The SIMM in-body microgenerator is designed to augment battery power—and possibly someday replace it entirely—in pacemakers and ICDs. ...
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Thursday, December 10th, 2009
Custom thermoforming giant Prent Corp. has announced that it is opening new facilities in Shanghai and Holbaek, Denmark. The plant in the greater Copenhagen area—the company’s first in Europe—will begin operations on 4 January 2010. The Shanghai facility went online earlier this month.
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Thursday, December 10th, 2009
PEEK and thermoset polyimide extrusions with pad-printed graphics are now available from Putnam Plastics for high-performance catheter applications. The company typically uses internally developed pretreatment technologies, including plasma-based surface treatment, to prepare the surfaces.
The graphics serve critical functions including product identification, location and orientation during surgical procedures. “Strong adhesion of ...
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Thursday, December 10th, 2009
From the Wire: A system that turns brain waves into FM radio signals and decodes them as sound is reportedly the first totally wireless brain-computer interface. The system is currently being tested in 26-year-old Erik Ramsey, who suffers from "locked-in" syndrome. Ramsey can currently only express vowel sounds with the ...
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