Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
After the Pip implant scandal, breast implants from another manufacturer are now causing cancer fears in Europe, according to an article in the Daily Mail. A senior manager at the UK hospital chain Nuffield Health has warned the chain's leading doctors to avoid offering Silimed implants, manufactured by the German company ...
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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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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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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, October 12th, 2011
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It's Nobel Prize season, and only a few days after the Nobel Prize Committee announced that this year's prize in Physics would go to astronomers Adam Riess, Brian ...
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Tuesday, August 16th, 2011
A new biomaterial developed by researchers at Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland, United States) could be used to replace disfigured soft tissue in cheeks and lips, for example, according to a Technology Review article. The material is a blend of the biological material hyaluronic acid and the synthetic material polyethylene ...
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Wednesday, July 20th, 2011
Scientists at the University of Birmingham have developed a technique that makes stainless steel surfaces resistant to bacteria. The technique could be used to create bacteria-resistant surfaces for medical equipment, such as for medical instruments and implants.
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Monday, July 18th, 2011
The limitations of current technology and some potential solutions was one of the themes in last week's industry blog posts.
A post on MPMN's Medtech Pulse discussed a new memory device made of a liquid alloy of metals set into gels. While conventional electronics do not function well in wet environments, ...
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Friday, July 15th, 2011
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A man suffering from late stage tracheal cancer received a new trachea made from a synthetic scaffold seeded with his own stem cells during a surgery at Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm last week. ...
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Tuesday, July 5th, 2011
The Institute of Nanotechnology, Ceram and the Materials Knowledge Transfer Networks will hold the conference "Nanoscale Bioceramics in Healthcare and High Performance Ceramics" on 12 and 13 October 2011. The conference will take place at Ceram’s headquarters in Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom.
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Wednesday, June 29th, 2011
Rofin and Raydiance have extended their partnership agreement for an additional three years. The initial agreement, which started in June of 2010, was for one year. The collaboration between Rofin, a manufacturer of laser solutions for industrial material processing, and Raydiance, a developer of ultrafast laser technology, allows for the ...
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Tuesday, June 14th, 2011
From the wire: Sartorius Stedim Biotech and Südpack Medica AG have signed an exclusive cooperation agreement on the development, manufacture and supply of polymer plastic films for the biopharmaceutical market.
As part of this strategic partnership, which is based on an initial term of 10 years, SSB and Südpack will collaborate ...
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