Archive for August, 2010
Wednesday, August 25th, 2010
Do you have a winning idea for a technology that could spur economic growth in the United Kingdom? The Technology Strategy Board would like to hear about it. The governmental body invites businesses across the country to compete for support to develop innovative technologies that could create new growth areas ...
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Wednesday, August 25th, 2010
DSM Biomedical and its Berkeley-based operation, DSM PTG, yesterday announced that the company has entered into six multi-year licensing agreements with global medical device manufacturers in the orthopaedic, cardiovascular, vascular and urology fields. The new agreements allow DSM to work in conjunction with leading medical device manufacturers throughout the various phases ...
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Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
A team of Oxford University biomedical engineers and cardiologists has developed a way of merging 3-D data from ultrasound transducers placed in different positions on a patient’s body. The researchers recently reported in the journal JACC Cardiovascular Imaging that, in a pilot study of 32 people, this boosted the quality ...
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Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
An article recently published on www.emdt.co.uk expains how acoustic micro imaging technology can identify latent defects in products during development and manufacture and prevent field failures. When a medical device fails during active use, the failure is often preceded by a latent defect of some type. If the failure is not ...
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Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
Switzerland has a new platform for the medical device industry: Medtech Switzerland. The Swiss Medical Cluster co-founded the platform on 9 August 2010 together with OSEC, Switzerland's official promotion agency for foreign trade. The aim of the platform is to provide manufacturers, suppliers and service providers with information about the most important ...
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Monday, August 23rd, 2010
Researchers at Arizona State University have demonstrated a way to simplify testing patients for infectious diseases and unhealthy protein levels. New testing instrumentation developed by professors Antonia Garcia and John Schneider could make the procedure less costly and produce results in less time.
Current testing is slow and expensive because ...
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Monday, August 23rd, 2010
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The generation of an electric field by the compression and expansion of solid materials is known as the piezoelectric effect, and it has a range of applications ranging from everyday items such ...
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Monday, August 23rd, 2010
The United States Patent and Trademark Office has awarded Interface Catheter Solutions for “balloon catheter folding and wrapping devices and methods” (Patent No. US 7,762,804). The patent covers equipment and processes that use arms and blades to create multiple folds in a balloon catheter. Precise radial movement of temperature controlled blades ...
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Sunday, August 22nd, 2010
Pan-European trade association Eucomed has announced the full programme of the forthcoming MedTech Forum 2010. The event will feature discussions of such provocative issues as corruption in the healthcare system, the methodology and ramifications of health technology assessments and the way forward for medtech companies wrestling with a feeble economy. ...
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Friday, August 20th, 2010
US firm Potomac Photonics has demonstrated the feasibility of wireless sensor node miniaturisation. To fulfill a National Science Foundation Phase I SBIR contract related to energy storage, electrical distribution and packaging for wireless sensor networks, the company succeeded in reducing the volume of the current wireless sensor package by a factor of ten. ...
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Friday, August 20th, 2010
The doctor is in . . . your pocket. That may soon be a reality for people with a cardiovascular condition. A German company has developed a mobile phone that provides a quick and simple way to measure, record and dispatch electrocardiogram (ECG) readings to a doctor or hospital. It ...
Posted in qmed daily europe, Telemedicine, Wireless technology | 1 Comment »
Thursday, August 19th, 2010
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Building on an enzyme found in nature, researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have created a nanoscale coating for surgical equipment, hospital walls and other surfaces which safely eradicates methicillin resistant Staphylococcus ...
Posted in Coating, qmed daily europe | 1 Comment »
