Sunday, August 17th, 2008
When you're the editor of a medical device manufacturing publication, you don't really want to sample the products that are typically covered in the pages of your magazine. No offense, but I prefer to engage with catheters, say, on an intellectual level rather than in situ. Of course, stuff--for want ...
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Friday, August 15th, 2008
Companies interested in this novel improvement that optimises radiation therapy time are invited to contact the University of Florida’s Office of Technology Licensing.
Radiation therapy is an integral part of many types of cancer treatment and more than one million patients are reportedly treated each year in the United States. Nearly ...
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Monday, August 11th, 2008
To the surprise of no one, the med-tech industry is finding that there is, still, plenty of room at the bottom, to paraphrase physicist and nanotechnology pioneer Richard Feynman. The global medical market for nanotechnology applications accounted for approximately US$1.7 billion in 2007. The vast majority of this revenue--nearly 90%--was ...
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Friday, August 8th, 2008
A greater range of drugs: Advances in particle technology and the art of particle flow dynamics are expanding the number of drugs that could be used in inhaled drug delivery. In addition, the ability to create stable dry particle forms of protein and peptide drugs increases their attractiveness for dry ...
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Friday, August 1st, 2008
Future medical products could include wireless sensors embedded in knee and hip implants that transmit information for doctors to confirm that the implants are handling pressure and functioning correctly, reports www.fwdailynews.com. Data on how an implant is behaving inside the body will also be valuable during post-procedure check ups.
This concept ...
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