Archive for February, 2013
Thursday, February 28th, 2013
Researchers at Brown University have reported the next advance in brain-computer interfaces, an implantable and rechargeable wireless sensor. The sensor could one day help people with severe paralysis control devices with their thoughts.
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Thursday, February 28th, 2013
Yes, Europe's regulatory system for medical devices is in need of an overhaul to improve patient safety and maintain timely access to innovative medical technology. No, the scrutiny procedure is not the best way to achieve that goal. That was—almost—the consensus at a meeting organised by the European Parliament’s Environment, ...
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Thursday, February 28th, 2013
Longevity and a contact-kill mechanism set apart an antimicrobial coating developed by BioInteractions Ltd from the panoply of technologies designed to prevent bacterial infection. The company based in Reading, UK, is touting its material and associated services at MEDTEC Europe in Stuttgart, Germany, for the first time this week.
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Wednesday, February 27th, 2013
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It's an illustration of the rapid pace at which the world moves these days that a forecast of the growth rate of western Europe's medical technology market drafted in May 2012 will have to be revised . . . downward, as it happens. Speaking to a ...
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Wednesday, February 27th, 2013
If Russia is not currently on your radar as a medtech market, it will be soon. That was the message delivered by Alexandra Tretiakova, Executive Director of Russia's International Medical Device Manufacturers Association, at the Breakfast Briefing hosted by European Medical Device Technology at MEDTEC Europe on 27 February. Currently ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2013
Debiotech SA and Valtronic announced that they have entered into an exclusive partnership agreement regarding the manufacturing of the electronic controller unit for Debiotech's novel insulin "JewelPUMPTM". Representing the most advanced use of microfluidic MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) technology in diabetes treatment, the watertight pump can be mounted on a disposable ...
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Thursday, February 21st, 2013
She wasn't born that way, but Lady Gaga has had a hip problem for some time apparently and has just undergone hip arthroscopy to repair a labral tear. The condition led her to cancel part of the Born This Way Ball world tour. When the news was announced, Surgical Innovations ...
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2013
Researchers at the University of Southampton, in collaboration with the University of Glasgow, have developed a new method to generate bone cells. The researchers cultured human embryonic stem cells on the surface of plastic materials, which included polycarbonate plastic, a method cheaper and easier than traditional ways of culturing embryonic ...
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2013
Much ink has been spilled over the scrutiny procedure in the proposed medical device regulation, but relatively little has been said about article 16, which would require an "implant card" to be distributed with each implantable device and provided to the patient who has been implanted with the device. Rolande Hall, ...
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2013
SMP Sintermetalle Prometheus (SMP) has developed chokes for use in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). These inductive components are exceptionally quiet in operation as well as being low-loss and energy-efficient. This has been achieved with magnetostriction-free materials that have been developed specially for use in medical equipment. SMP develops and manufactures inductive ...
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Tuesday, February 19th, 2013
What are you doing on 26 February? If you have an interest in the proposed medical device regulation and how it will affect patient safety and time to market, then you should make plans to be in Brussels. The European Parliament’s Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI) Committee has ...
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Monday, February 18th, 2013
Colder Products Company, provider of quick disconnect couplings and fittings for plastic tubing, announces the addition of PVDF to the available medical material options throughout its FitQuik Connectors product line. This material addition creates more than 100 new FitQuik Connectors alongside the existing nylon, polypropylene and polycarbonate materials and configurations ...
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