SINGAPORE, Nov. 20 Singapore announced on Friday that it will inject 36 million Singapore dollars (25.9 million U.S. dollars) into new programs to give a greater push to its growing medical technology…
Category: Pharmaceuticals
Industry shows an appetite for innovation at MEDICA
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…
Norwegian Innovation Better Tools for European Surgeons
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…
Hoerbiger Micro Fluid GmbH: Hydraulic drive technology for patient positioning
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…
Taiwan, China to cooperate on biomedical projects
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…
Canada Biotech Mergers and Acquisitions Wave Coming Soon
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…
Is GE Global Research Developing a Portable Solar-Powered Ultrasound Device?
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…
Philanthropists’ gift to support University of Iowa biomedical research
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…
Experimental agent reduces breast cancer metastasis to bone
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…
Over 1,000 biologics jobs to come in Singapore
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…
A*STAR of Singapore to launch an online publication promoting its research
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…
Malawi body grants US$40m to gov’t ministry to fight HIV/Aids
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…
SRL launches Global Knowledge Forum for exchange of ideas amongst biomed sciences professionals
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…
New Telehealth Device Brings Health Management Home
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….
Siemens Delivers Flash Speed, Lowest Dose to Arnold Palmer Children Hospital
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….