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- How bureaucrats control the device market
- Few doubt that government bureaucrats have enormous impact on the market for medical devices.And they tend to travel in herds.For instance, here's a prediction. The market for drug-carrying stents, used to treat closing arteries, is going to take an enormous hit.The reason is a report to Britain's NHS which concludes...
- Tags: HEALTHCARE, Dana Blankenhorn, stent
- Blog posts 2007-09-04
- Triple-shape plastics for surgery
- In Plastics Day in Surgery, Red Herring reports that an international team of U.S. and German researchers has developed a new kind of plastic that can shift between three different shapes when the temperature increases. Even if these polymeric triple-shape materials have not emerged from the lab, they could eventually...
- Tags: C/C++, polymer, stent, C, plastics
- Blog posts 2006-11-25
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- The blurring of medical niches
- Patrick Driscoll of MedMarket Diligence has a problem.The market segments in this industry are getting all blurry. Is a coated stent a device or a drug? What's a drug and what's biotech? Are devices now competing with lifestyle changes, as in obesity?Market segmentation may mean little to patients. They matter a lot to...
- Tags: Insurance, Dana Blankenhorn, Obesity
- Blog posts 2007-08-31
- Nanotechnology leads to better bone implants
- A team of U.S. researchers has found a new and inexpensive way to create a nanowire coating for titanium surfaces used in bone implants. Their nanowire scaffolds can be used 'to create more effective surfaces for hip replacement, dental reconstruction and vascular stenting.' As said the lead researcher, 'We can...
- Tags: Researcher, Texas Instruments Inc., Nanotechnology, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-08-29
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