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• Growth Factors in Wound Management

  
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  Extensive research has demonstrated that wound fluid is rich in growth factors. Growth factors are naturally occurring proteins found primarily in platelets and macrophages. They are needed for normal wound healing to promote growth and migration of fibroblasts, endothelial cells and keratinocytes. The functions of ...
  4 days ago

• A decade (and more) of medtech startups

  
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  For the past decade (actually, more like 12 years), we have been identifying and tracking medical technology startups. These are companies that we identified sometimes only a week or two after their company registrations were filed (and, invariably within the preceding two years) who started businesses to develop and ...
  5 days ago

• Transcatheter Valves At The Tipping Point

  
  Medical Devices Today — Authority: 132
  Although Edwards is the pioneer and market leader in TAVR, there is no shortage of competitors – in both the aortic and mitral valve segments – developing next-generation devices who would be happy with a fraction of this potential multibillion-dollar opportunity.
  2 weeks ago

• Medical technology being redefined by forces, innovation

  
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  One of the significant challenges in current markets for medical technology is the evolving definitions that dictate the nature of the competitive landscape. The unrelenting economic forces underpinning medtech — to drive down the cost of healthcare — have forced manufacturers to respond to competition that is ...
  2 weeks ago

• Growth in posterior pedicle screw fusion systems in spine surgery

  
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  Posterior pedicle screw fusion systems are used extensively in spine surgery; eight or more screws may be used in a single procedure. The posterior pedicle screw fusion system will continue to be used in spine surgery for the foreseeable future. Industry managers believe that, even as new treatments come on to the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Wound healing physiology

  
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  When body tissue is damaged by trauma, surgery, hypoxia, or other destructive processes, it quickly reacts to protect itself and begin the process of healing. Clean surgical wounds closed by primary intention heal rapidly and do not usually require additional medical intervention and support. Chronic wounds and those ...
  2 weeks ago

• Trend and distribution in clinical/technology focus of medtech startups

  
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  MedMarket Diligence has been tracking the formation of medtech startups for over a dozen years. For the sake of definition (since not everyone has the same view of “medtech” or “startup”), we view “medtech startups” as: Medtech companies are those principally developing and/or marketing medical devices ...
  2 weeks ago

• Medtech fundings for May 2013

  
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  We are tracking medtech fundings for May 2013 at link , so check back during the month to see updates. Fundings for medtech so far this month total $152 million. Top fundings for the month thus far include: $62.5 million for Proteus Digital Health (wearable and ingestible sensors) $54.6 million for Natera ...
  3 weeks ago

• Opportunities, drivers and growth platforms in medtech

  
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  The medical technology industry is characterized by its steady focus on finding and developing innovative solutions on the horizon that will meet the demands of clinicians and healthcare systems to more rapidly and effectively solve problems in the management of disease and trauma. Given the state of the art in ...
  3 weeks ago

• Neuromodulation Market: Innovation Brings High-Growth Rewards

  
  Medical Devices Today — Authority: 132
  Neuromodulation is one of the largest and fastest growing segments of the worldwide medical device market, with global revenues expected to reach $6 billion by 2020; as a result, the number of products in the neuromodulation pipeline is exploding. New and improved technologies will permit deeper penetration of ...
  3 weeks ago

• Technologies at recently identified medtech startups

  
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  Below is the list of technologies under development by medtech startups that were recently identified and included in the Medtech Startups Database . Laser-based detection of metastatic cancer cells. Ultrasound therapeutics. Detection of concussion. Orthopaedic implants. Spine surgery implants including ...
  3 weeks ago

• Advanced wound technologies penetrating, expanding markets

  
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  Advanced medical technologies gain footing in medical technology markets by a combination of displacing caseload previously served by older, established technologies, and tapping into previously unserved (or underserved) caseload by offering new product benefits. In other words, new technologies gain sales by both ...
  3 weeks ago

• High growth spine surgery markets worldwide

  
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  Growth of sales for medical technologies can be determined almost as much by geography as by whether the market is emerging or displacing existing competitive technologies.  For this reason, we review spine surgery markets globally considering the growth of specific spine surgery technologies in specific countries. ...
  4 weeks ago

• Robotic Hysterectomy: Procedures Increasing, But Questions Remain

  
  Medical Devices Today — Authority: 132
  Controversy continues to swirl around robotic surgical procedures and this time the target is robotic hysterectomy. However, the drama does not seem to be impacting the number of these procedures performed robotically, a statistic that is clearly on the rise.
  4 weeks ago

• Requirements for effective surgical sealants

  
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  Tourniquet, pressure and sutures have been used for controlling excessive bleeding during surgical procedures for many hundreds of years. Fibrin sealants represented a revolution in local hemostatic measures for both bleeding and nonbleeding disorders. Fibrin sealant has the potential to provide life-saving control of ...
  4 weeks ago

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