Archive for November, 2011
Monday, November 21st, 2011
In a recent press release, MAZeT GmbH announced that the development and production of electronics for medical equipment is becoming increasingly important in the market orientation of the German development and production service provider for embedded computing solutions and optoelectronics. To meet customer demands, MAZeT is increasingly required to depict ...
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Monday, November 21st, 2011
Last week, the medical trade fair Medica and the medical manufacturing supplier trade fair Compamed took place, attracting visitors from around the world.
At Medica, the German packaging supplier PolyCine introduced a processing technique that blocks migration of plasticisers from PVC. EMDT Editor in Chief Norbert Sparrow spoke with PolyCine's Head ...
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Sunday, November 20th, 2011
Despite what publicists and copy writers would like us to believe, fundamental technology breakthroughs are few and far between. Bringing incremental improvements and assembling existing, sometimes decades-old technologies to fix persistent problems is the more common scenario. That describes the home health hub (HHH), which semiconductor company Freescale introduced at ...
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Sunday, November 20th, 2011
Almost all ostomy bags and pouches are made from PVC or PVDC, says Colleen Ward, Global Director of Marketing for Avery Dennison Medical, and there’s a good reason for that. “Those materials have excellent barrier properties, and that’s especially important in ostomy applications."
On the other hand, these materials and their ...
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Thursday, November 17th, 2011
A research team at Uppsala University (Uppsala, Sweden) has developed multifunctional surface coatings that enable bone tissue to form in areas were it did not originally exist, according to a university press release. The research is described in a dissertation by Sonya Piskounova.
The coatings consist of a layer of hydroxyapatite, ...
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Thursday, November 17th, 2011
As a supplier of electronics design and manufacturing services to the global medtech sector, Jabil Healthcare & Life Sciences has a vast footprint. That is generally a good thing, but it can cause some customer service headaches.
For example, Jabil operates three design centres in Europe, each of which ...
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Thursday, November 17th, 2011
From the wire: ASG Medical Systems, the leader in catheter and guidewire manufacturing automation, and Technical Innovations, the leader in catheter hole drilling, hole punching and skiving technology, have merged to create Syneo.
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Wednesday, November 16th, 2011
With the exception of blood-pressure cuffs, it never occurred to me to put Velcro and medical devices in the same thought bubble. The distinctive ripping sound the material makes as it is pulled apart and its generally gritty aspect just don't lend it a medical aura. So when I saw ...
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Wednesday, November 16th, 2011
PolyOne Corp., a provider of specialised polymer materials, services and solutions, will exhibit a newly expanded portfolio of specialised solutions for the healthcare industry at Compamed 2011. Building on the company’s growing mix of healthcare materials, services and solutions, this portfolio now includes new colourants for its Dow Health+ polymers ...
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Wednesday, November 16th, 2011
Even if medical-grade PVC is still a healthcare staple, the narrative on the use of PVC in medical applications has been driven largely by the prohibition crowd. The health impact of plasticisers leaching from the material into patients' bodies has put the media spotlight squarely on PVC-alternative materials. PolyCine is ...
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Wednesday, November 16th, 2011
The stunning revelations of how Olympus Corp. managed to cover up huge investment losses for more than 20 years is making Japanese doctors anxious about whether the scandal will hurt the company’s mainstay gastro-intestinal endoscope business.
“It’s nothing but a humiliation to all medical workers that Olympus took tens of billions ...
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Tuesday, November 15th, 2011
Advanced Medical Solutions Group plc (Winsford, United Kingdom) has announced a collaboration with University of Chester’s Faculty of Health and Social Care (Chester, United Kingdom) on a wound care educational programme.
The programme will be offered to healthcare professionals in a series of five modules, including basic skin anatomy and physiology, ...
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