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Hidalgo launches new range of
Equivital vital signs monitor
Wireless innovations company
Hidalgo has launched its latest range of mobile vital signs
monitors, the Equivital EQ02 LifeMonitor. 29 Nov 2011
US and Asia show strong demand for
German medical technologies
Demand for German medical
technologies will grow by 6% percent in 2011, according to industry
experts, with above average demand from the USA and Asia. 28 Nov
2011
Systagenix launches point of care test
for rapid assessment of chronic wounds
Woundchek Protease
Status, the first product arising from the collaboration with Alere
Scarborough, is the world’s first rapid, point of care test for the
assessment of protease activity in chronic wounds. 28 Nov 2011
Michelson Diagnostics shareholders
invest £1.9m to expand sales of skin cancer scanner
Michelson
Diagnostics has announced an investment of £1.912 million by
shareholders Octopus Investments, Catapult Venture Managers and
individual investors from London Business Angels. 28 Nov 2011
Leica Microsystems
acquires Labindia’s Microscopy and Histopathology Divisions
Labindia Instruments Pvt. Ltd.
is a leading solutions and service
provider in India that has successfully distributed Leica’s products
in India for over 20 years. 28 Nov 2011
Sphere Medical floated on AIM
Sphere Medical Holding plc has announced trading of 18,943,843
additional Ordinary Shares on 18 November on AIM, following First
Admission of 17,861,801 Ordinary Shares on 17 November 2011. 23 Nov
2011.
NanoKTN offers advice for applying for
£27m Technology Strategy Board funds
The UK Nanotechnology
Knowledge Transfer Network (NanoKTN) is encouraging its members to
apply for a share of £27 million made available by the Technology
Strategy Board for grants for innovative research and development
projects. 22 November 2011
Endomagnetics raises
additional funding for novel cancer diagnostics probe
Cambridge-based Endomagnetics has raised funding totalling £1.8
million. The Company has also announced a move to Cambridge and two
new appointments as it expands its operations. 23 November 2011
BioCity Nottingham attracts ex
AstraZeneca and Pfizer entrepreneurs
Six new companies
started by former AstraZeneca Charnwood employees will create 15
jobs within BioCity Nottingham by the end of November. 23
November 2011
Cellnovo mobile diabetes management
system wins EU approval
Cellnovo has received CE Mark approval for
its diabetes management system built around mobile, wireless
technology. 23 November 2011
MEDICA and COMPAMED
driving jobs in the med tech sector
At this years events
4,571 exhibitors presented the entire cross-section of new products,
services and processes for increasing efficiency and quality for in
and out-patient care to 134,500 visitors. 23 Nov 2011
Oxford Medical Diagnostics achieves
detection of 1ppm acetone in breath
Oxford University
spinout Oxford Medical Diagnostics has announced that it has
achieved a significant target in developing a cost-effective
desk-top breath analysis device to diagnose diabetes. 21 Nov 2011
Smart Solutions winners
chosen by North West NHS Innovation Service
Medical experts
in Liverpool, Tameside and Warrington are to play a key role in
testing three new medical devices chosen as winners of the Smart
Solutions for Healthcare competition. 21 Nov 2011
Rohde & Schwarz
supplies analysers to Micrima for wideband radio breast cancer
screening
Rohde & Schwarz has announced it has supplied its
high-speed vector network analysers to Bristol University spin-out
Micrima for the clinical trials of their revolutionary radio wave
breast cancer screening technique. 21 Nov 2011
Key protein for self-healing damaged heart muscle discovered
German scientists have identified a protein that stimulates
the regression of individual heart muscle cells into their precursor
cells which could then be used to regenerate damaged heart muscle after
a heart attack. 20 Nov 2011
Domainex awarded TSB
funding to develop kinase-inhibiting anti cancer drug
Domainex has been awarded a £250,000 grant by the TSB to support the
development of a new drug for the treatment of several common
cancers. 20 Nov 2011
Cambridge Consultants creates novel
drug auto-injector
Technology design and development company
Cambridge Consultants has announced that it had created a novel
auto-injector concept that has been ergonomically designed to be
easy to hold and use. 20 Nov 2011
Smoking and obesity during pregnancy
linked to child obesity
Researchers can predict which
children are most likely to become obese by examining their mothers'
behaviour around their birth. 20 Nov 2011
Record number of exhibitors at
Medica 2011
From 16-19 November 2011, the attention of health
and medical professionals from around the world will once again
focus on Düsseldorf, as the world's largest medical trade fair,
MEDICA 2011, World Forum for Medicine, and COMPAMED 2011 get
underway
Philips’ Sparq ultrasound system brings clarity and ease-of-use at point of care
Sparq is a mobile system designed to provide immediate, intuitive
ultrasound imaging for guidance during regional anesthesia and pain
medicine procedures and at the bedside
Rhône-Alpes region's health sector
strongly represented at Medica 2011
The Medical Technology
Cluster in Saint-Etienne and the I-Care Cluster in Lyons will
attend, together with a number of their members. 15 Nov 2011
UK med tech companies
lead export push
Companies from across the UK are putting
their medical technology products on the international trade map
this week when they exhibit at MEDICA. 15 Nov 2011
Cerner shows how technology can
deliver world class healthcare at lower cost
At the ‘British
Experience in Technology for Health’ conference in Barcelona, Cerner
detailed how technology can help people take more control of
their healthcare deliver better care at reduced cost. 14 Nov 2011
Aerte launches revolutionary
free-radical based air disinfection device
Aerte's AD 2.0 is
specifically designed and proven to continuously eliminate airborne
healthcare associated infections (HCAI) in clinical settings —
including MRSA, C difficile and Norovirus. 14 Nov 2011
Cresset announces
design-a-molecule competition winners
The competition
challenged chemists to design the most biologically similar molecule
to a reference compound that was provided. 14 Nov 2011
Sony DADC wins Löhn
Award for advancing microfluidics manufacturing
The Award is
for the for the transfer of highly dynamic variothermal technology
to Sony DADC in Austria. 14 Nov 2011
Philips introduces IntelliSpace PACS 4.4 to support new level
of collaboration
IntelliSpace informatics solutions are a portfolio of
clinical informatics and patient care technologies that facilitate
the delivery of detailed, actionable patient information to
clinicians. 14 Nov 2011
UCLB becomes first leading academic institution Partner of One
Nucleus
UCLB and University College London will be able to access
networking, training opportunities and the One Nucleus group
purchasing scheme. 14 Nov 2011
Image Information
Systems to showcase mobile diagnostic image reading at MEDICA
Company highlights at the show will include pioneering products:
iQ-MOBILITY and iQ-BOOSTER. 14 Nov 2011
Cobra Biologics acquires Unitech
Pharma Group
The facility in Matfors will bring over 20 years
of bio-production experience to Cobra, with their offering
complimenting Cobra’s existing expertise and capacity. 11 Nov 2011
Sygnature Discovery and
Saretius strategic alliance for drug discovery
The
companies will collaborate to provide a fully-integrated drug
discovery service to accelerate clients’ drug discovery programmes
into development. 11 Nov 2011
Ultrasonic tap nozzle gives
revolutionary cleaning power to water
The nozzle generates
bubbles and ultrasound that travel down the water stream and
generate the increased cleaning power of the water. 9 Nov 2011
Medical technology
innovations from 75 UK companies on display at Medica 2011
The Association of British Healthcare Industries is once again
organising the UK Pavilion at MEDICA (Hall 16 Stand G10-3), housing
75 of the UK’s most innovative med-tech companies.
London gets new cord blood donation
facility to support stem cell treatments
A new specialist
collection service for lifesaving cord blood started at University
College Hospital (UCH) in London last week. It is rich in stem cells
that can help patients whose own bone marrow is not working. 7 Nov
2011
AQAI launches TestChest
lung-heart function simulator
The AQAI Simulation Center
based in Mainz, Germany, has launched TestChest, a device that
simulates the functioning of the extremely complex lung and
heart-lung functions in humans. 7 Nov 2011
Microsulis microwave
ablation sytem approved to show ETL safety mark
This
accreditation mark will now appear on Microsulis Medical’s Sulis
VpMTA Generator, which powers the Acculis range of microwave tissue
ablation devices. 7 Nov 2011
Growing rate of premature mortality
in European men
An EC report reveals a growing rate of
premature mortality in European men and deteriorating health. Its
lead author, Professor Alan White, the world’s first Professor of
Men’s Health at Leeds Metropolitan University, presented the
findings at an Expert Symposium on Men’s Health as part of the
launch of the University’s Institute for Health & Wellbeing on
Thursday. 4 Nov 2011
New findings contradict plaque
formation as cause of Alzheimer’s disease
The new study
suggests that it is the neurons’ inability to secrete beta-amyloid
that is at the heart of pathogenesis in Alzheimer’s disease. 3 Nov
2011
The Velcro Companies
exhibit innovative solutions at Medica
Products are used in
a wide range of applications, from disposable, single-use devices,
such as patient gowns, surgical tubing and tracheostomy straps, to
high-end durable devices intended for long-term reuse. 3 Nov 2011
The winning formula for improving
health systems at low cost
There is a winning formula for
improving health systems that low income countries can apply,
according to a new study led by the London School of Hygiene &
Tropical Medicine. 3 Nov 2011
Philips opens centre for study of
healing environments
Philips has opened a dedicated research
facility at its Eindhoven-based Research Laboratories for studying
healing environments to accelerate and improve treatment outcomes. 1
November 2011
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