Archive for June, 2010
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
Customers from the medtech and pharmaceutical sectors are famously demanding, notes Tampoprint AG, a maker of fully automated pad printing systems for those and other industries. High expectations can drive companies to innovate, which is how Tampoprint came to develop a 12-colour system for printing along the circumference of catheters.
Tampoprint ...
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Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
[caption id="attachment_15565" align="alignleft" width="350" caption="Each molecule passing through the nanopore can be identified by monitoring the change it causes in an ionic current flowing across the membrane. When different molecules (purple and green objects) enter the pore (green shown in inset), each reduces the current by a certain amount and ...
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Tuesday, June 29th, 2010
MaRVis Technologies GmbH (Aachen, Germany) has achieved proof-of-concept for its novel platform technology for the use of medical devices such as guidewires and catheters in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)–guided treatments. This new technology has been designed for applications in radiology, neuroradiology, cardiology and interventional tumour therapy. ...
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Monday, June 28th, 2010
Designed to measure the thickness and properties of thin film coatings on orthopaedic products, stents and related devices, the n-Gauge metrology instrument puts beam profile reflectometry technology within reach of a range of sectors for the first time, according to UK-based Nightingale-EOS Ltd. "Previously available only to high-volume semiconductor ...
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Monday, June 28th, 2010
Canon Communications has joined forces with IBM to provide complimentary white papers in topics such as change management, quality management, engineering and product development. To access one of the white papers, click on a link listed below, register some basic information and you’ll get access to the suite of articles ...
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Sunday, June 27th, 2010
While the market for ultrasound imaging equipment in Western Europe and the United States has been battered by the Great Recession and lingering economic uncertainty, China's market is a picture of health. The Chinese market for ultrasound imaging equipment will exceed US$1 billion by 2014, achieving annual growth of 9.3%, ...
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Thursday, June 24th, 2010
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From the Wire: Organic semiconductors are promising candidates as starting materials for the manufacture of cheap, large area and flexible electronic ...
Posted in Electronics, From the Wire, medtechinsider | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
With the hope of making the city a hub for medical device research and development, the municipal government of Kyoto has opened an office in the centre of Kyoto to attract manufacturers, researchers and engineers. From 2006 to 2011, the city has committed to support researchers from local companies and in the ...
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Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
The medical technology sector in France registered virtually no growth in 2009, a new low for an industry that has seen its growth rate plummet from 5.43% in the period between 2006 and 2007 to 1.41% between 2007 and 2008. The statistics were announced this week in a press release ...
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Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
"Medical devices are not subject to any regulatory approval; [manufacturers] don't have to prove their effectiveness nor their safety." Would you believe that's what Professor Juergen Windeler, future head of the Institute for Quality and Economic Efficiency in Healthcare (IQWiG), claimed in an article published on 10 June in the German ...
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Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010
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Batteries might gain a boost in power capacity as a result of recent research at MIT. Scientists at the university found that using carbon nanotubes ...
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Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010
[caption id="attachment_15375" align="alignleft" width="180" caption="A new kind of degradable implant can stimulate the body to regenerate itself. Source: Fraunhofer"][/caption]
The body can heal minor bone injuries itself - but with major injuries, it needs help. That‘s when implants frequently come into use. In contrast to long-term implants based on titanium, degradable ...
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