Medical experts can see the innovativeness of the industry for themselves during their visit to MEDICA 2009. In a presentation clearly structured according to product groups, the event will show the entire spectrum of products, systems and services for medical care in doctors’ surgeries and clinics: ranging from medical technology/equipment and electro-medicine, laboratory technology . . . → Read More: Industry shows an appetite for innovation at MEDICA
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19th November Reported by Kashif Rai Medica 2009 : The Norwegian company Surgitech Norway AS has developed a new instrument for minimally invasive surgery, that … more efficient surgery. The surgical instruments have a unique ergonomic design that is comfortable in use and promotes efficient muscle action. The instruments thereby reduce fatigue and discomfort . . . → Read More: Norwegian Innovation Better Tools for European Surgeons The highlight of this year’s trade show presentation by Hoerbiger Micro Fluid GmbH will be the new lift Column for Heavy Load, CHL. It sets a new standard for lift columns used in operating tables. Conventional operating tables are designed for a patient weight of up to 180 kilograms, or just under 400 pounds. . . . → Read More: Hoerbiger Micro Fluid GmbH: Hydraulic drive technology for patient positioning Taipei, Nov. 11 2009 Reported by CNA Biomedical companies in Taiwan and China have reached an agreement for cooperation on 10 projects of Biomedical, a step that is expected to lead to expansion of the emerging Biomedical industry on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. Vice Governor of Jiangsu Province Zhao Kezhi said “the . . . → Read More: Taiwan, China to cooperate on biomedical projects Abbott Labs (ABT) recent acquisition of Solvay is a lead indicator for a new wave of acquisitions of Biotech companies by Large Pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer (PFE), Bristol Myers (BMY) and Novartis (NVS) according to Serge Depatie, portfolio manager for NatCan Investments. One target that Mr. Depatie thinks will make a good acquisition is . . . → Read More: Canada Biotech Mergers and Acquisitions Wave Coming Soon The recent announcement that GE has been awarded a $1.2 Million NIH-funded grant to develop a low-cost transducer for portable ultrasound systems is noteworthy — but not nearly as important as its recently settled patent litigation with SonoSite, Inc. that occurred just two weeks ago (http://www.sonosite.com/news/2009/10/sonosite-announces-global-patent-settlement-with-ge/ ). With the filing of its first US . . . → Read More: Is GE Global Research Developing a Portable Solar-Powered Ultrasound Device? IOWA USA: John Poppajohn, an Iowa venture capitalist and philanthropist, known to have shaped Iowa State of USA’s future, along with his wife Mary, have made a $26.4 million gift to the University of Iowa for the creation of a new interdisciplinary biomedical research center in Des Moines. A feet that must be role . . . → Read More: Philanthropists’ gift to support University of Iowa biomedical research BOSTON (November 3, 2009) Researchers have reduced breast cancer metastasis to bone using an experimental agent to inhibit ROCK, a protein that was found to be over-expressed in metastatic breast cancer. In a study in mice, the team of researchers from Tufts University School of Medicine, the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences at . . . → Read More: Experimental agent reduces breast cancer metastasis to bone SINGAPORE: More than 1,000 highly skilled jobs will be created when the six biologics plants being implemented in Singapore are fully operational, said Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam. These jobs will appeal to fresh graduates and mid-career professionals from related sectors such as the chemicals, electronics and processing sectors, said Mr Tharman at the opening . . . → Read More: Over 1,000 biologics jobs to come in Singapore Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) and Macmillan Scientific Communications (MSC) have launched a new open access website, A*STAR Research to highlight some of the best research published by A*STAR’s research institutions. The regularly updated A*STAR Research, which will be accompanied by a twice-yearly 60-page print compilation of research highlights, features important . . . → Read More: A*STAR of Singapore to launch an online publication promoting its research Lilongwe Malawi The Malawi National Aids Commission (NAC), a coordinating body for all HIV/Aids activities in the country, on Tuesday granted US$40 million from Global Fund to the health ministry to help it scale up its HIV prevention intervention. The grant included funds for the procurement of health products like antiretroviral (ARV) drugs through . . . → Read More: Malawi body grants US$40m to gov’t ministry to fight HIV/Aids Super Religare Laboratories (SRL), India’s largest diagnostics network, announced the launch of the ‘Global Knowledge Forum’, inaugurated by Nobel Laureate in Medicine professor Peter C Doherty from University of Melbourne. The SRL Global Knowledge Forum will offer an interactive platform for qualitative scientific discourse amongst individuals from varied fields of biomedical sciences. It will . . . → Read More: SRL launches Global Knowledge Forum for exchange of ideas amongst biomed sciences professionals Cambridge Consultants, a leading technology product design and development firm, has recently unveiled VenaHub, a data collection and aggregation system that promises to simplify personal health management in a connected health environment. VenaHub employs a small pocket device to capture data from a user’s ecosystem of wireless medical devices, which it then integrates into . . . → Read More: New Telehealth Device Brings Health Management Home  Comments are closed  Biomed Company News, Device / Technology News, Innovation & Advances, International Biomed MALVERN, Pa., Oct. 28 Siemens Healthcare’s SOMATOM® Definition Flash dual-source computed tomography (CT) scanner is now poised to assist Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children, Orlando, Fla., to better serve its pediatric patients. The SOMATOM Definition Flash requires only a fraction of the radiation dose that systems previously required to scan even the tiniest anatomical . . . → Read More: Siemens Delivers Flash Speed, Lowest Dose to Arnold Palmer Children Hospital Environmental Tectonics Corporation’s BioMedical Division Announces Multiple Hyperbaric Chamber Sales SOUTHAMPTON, Pa., Oct. 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Environmental Tectonics Corporation’s (OTC Bulletin Board: ETCC) (“ETC” or the “Company”) BioMedical Division today announced a record month for sales of their Baramed monoplace chambers. Dave Mitchell, Vice President of ETC Controls Group, said, “A total of 15 . . . → Read More: Multiple Hyperbaric Chamber Sales announced |
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