Despite the hype, wearables are poised to make good on their promise to have substantial influence on society and business, according to a new report from PwC. Consumers seem to be excited by the potential of wearables, regardless of the ...
Tags: Life Sciences, Medtech, Wearables
Packaging services provider Packaging Coordinators (PCI) has acquired pharmaceutical services provider Biotec for an undisclosed amount. Headquartered in Wales, Biotec is a provider of clinical trials and temperature controlled ...
Amid daily updates from the pharmaceuticals industry on the latest clinical trials, last week's announcement by Hutchison China MediTech that it had enrolled patients for a study of colorectal cancer was hardly cause for excitement. But ...
Tags: Health, Medicine, Chinese Pharma
The FDA wants medical device developers to join them in facilitating a smoother, quicker approval process. A proposed Medical Device Development Tools qualification process would affect measurement tools that assess medical device ...
Medtech regulatory consultants and manufacturers are working to interpret the new medtech regulations promulgated in the People's Republic of China. The new regulations, designed to boost supervision and administration of medical devices, ...
An intensive care ward at Glasgow Royal Infirmary is trialling a lighting system that has been designed to kill superbugs including MRSA, E. coli and C. diff. The HINS-light system, which has been developed by the University of ...
Blood-platelet shortages may become a thing of the past, according to scientists at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. The researchers have designed an industrial-strength bone marrow bioreactor that can generate human platelets in ...
Tags: Bioreactor, Health, Medicine
Bosch will exhibit the new FHM 1000 laboratory device for liquid pharmaceutical filling operations at the CPhI Worldwide, a pharmaceutical networking event to be held in Paris from 7 to 9 October. The company will also showcase ...
Tags: Bosch, Pharmaceutical Equipment, Packaging
FDA-approved Grand River Aseptic Manufacturing (GRAM; Grand Rapids, MI) has announced that it has successfully closed a $9.8 million financing round. The privately held contract manufacturer provides manufacturing services for the aseptic ...
Consolidation in the clinical trials management software space recently took another step forward as the PharmaCM platform, along with substantially the rest of the assets of Deloitte Analytics LLC, became part of TrialScope Inc. ...
In a development that sounds as if it was lifted from the storyline of a vampire melodrama, a British research consortium has announced that it is well on its way to producing human blood on a scale that makes transfusions into real people ...
Medtronic's CoreValve transcatheter aortic valve replacement device. (Courtesy Medtronic) Almost before the judge's signature was dry on Friday's federal district court preliminary injunction in favor of Edwards Lifesciences Corp. ...
A study of 25 high-risk medical devices approved for use on children showed that 84 percent of those devices approved by FDA since 2008 had not been tested on any child under 18 years of age before the approval was granted. Eleven had not ...
Patients with spinal cord injuries and other forms of paralysis have reason to be optimistic, thanks to recent advances in the use of spinal-cord stimulator devices to regain some lower limb function. A recently announced study reporting ...
Afrezza hopes that its inhalable insulin product will be a gamechanger for diabetics. (Image courtesy Afrezza). Insulin injections may soon be a thing of the past if Mannkind Corp.'s inhalable insulin product, Afrezza, is approved by ...