Creganna-Tactx Medical has announced today that Robert B. Hance will join the company as Chief Executive Officer in September 2013, taking over the role from Helen Ryan who has held the position for the last eight years. Robert ...
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Despite significant headwinds, several medtech companies flourished in the past year while several stumbled. Here are five of the most successful: DexCom, a glucose monitoring specialist, has seen the value of its stock nearly triple in ...
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New blood pressure guidelines for U.S. adults age 60 and older are higher -- 150/90 -- but for those age 60 and younger they remain at 140/90. Dr. Paul A. James, chairman of the department of family medicine at the University of Iowa and ...
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A new family of LEDs in a PLCC-2 package that can handle higher drive currents and thus produce improved luminous intensity is the newest product from the Optoelectronics group of Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. (NYSE: VSH). The new ...
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Although the Affordable Care Act has been blamed for increased health insurance premiums, little is attributed to healthcare reform, U.S. researchers say. The analysis for the Commonwealth Fund, a private foundation supporting independent ...
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US-based privately-held therapeutic antibody firm AnaptysBio has commenced an antibody development program with Momenta Pharmaceuticals, focused on the development of new antibodies against a therapeutically relevant target. Both the ...
Echo Therapeutics’ Symphony CGM system has won Medical Devices Business Review’s Medical Device Innovation Award. Echo's device was selected from four nominations shortlisted for the award. Symphony CGM system is a ...
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Advancis Medical, a UK-based manufacturer of advanced wound care products, has announced the opening of a new company in the Netherlands. Based in Kampen, the Netherlands, Advancis Medical Nederland will be run by healthcare executive, ...
Oticon Medical, a manufacturer of bone anchored hearing systems, has obtained 510(k) approval the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market its Ponto Plus bone anchored sound processors in regular version (down to a hearing loss of ...
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In two separate clinical trials, researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have found that periodic meetings with a lactation consultant encourages women traditionally resistant to breastfeeding to do so, at ...
US-based medical technology company Medtronic has announced the randomization of the first patients in the SYMPLICITY HTN-4 clinical trial at Medical University of South Carolina, Piedmont Heart Institute and Duke University Medical Center. ...
Bristol Instruments The thickness of materials such as specialty plastic films, medical membranes, and ophthalmic products is measured with reliable accuracy. VICTOR, NEW YORK February 5, 2013 – Bristol Instruments, Inc., a leader ...
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SiSTEM Technology, a supplier of high quality processing equipment to the semiconductor and high technology industries, has announced that the Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) equipment it supplies from Picosun Oy is being used in the fast, ...
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Review Display Systems Ltd (RDS), specialist provider of optimal technical and commercial display system and embedded computing solutions, announces its appointment as distributor for Lumineq Displays – handling both their transparent ...
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Biodel, a specialty pharmaceutical company, has announced a long-term supply agreement with Becton, Dickinson and Company, a medical technology company, for worldwide exclusive rights to the novel and proprietary BD Uniject SCF disposable ...
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