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• NovaRay raises $5.9M for digital X-rays

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 781
  NovaRay Medical , maker of digital X-ray technology used for medical imaging, has brought in $5.9 million of an anticipated $10 million round of equity rights and securities, according to a filing with the SEC. Based in Newark, Calif., the company is backed by Wheatley Medtech Partners,among undisclosed others.
  17 hours ago

• Medtech Startups — 500 most recent

  
  advanced medical technologies — Authority: 127
  We have added the option to purchase and download, in Excel format, the 500 most recently identified medical technology startups. PRODUCT: Medtech Startups 500 most recent — $295.00   See the Medtech Startups Database . bookmark to
  1 day ago

• Human-device interface making big advances

  
  advanced medical technologies — Authority: 113
  The human-machine interface has been the subject of development at least since amputation or congenital defect has been an issue.  Recent developments have now made it seem likely that recipients of, for example, prosthetic arms will gain orders of magnitude better control, sensitivity and a semblance of normal ...
  3 days ago

• New Report Available on Advanced Wound Management Worldwide

  
  advanced medical technologies — Authority: 127
  The $5 billion global market for wound management products and technologies is comprised of commodity-like dressings and bandages (little differentiation beyond price) as well as advanced wound management products like physical wound healing systems (NPWT, others) designed to tackle the pervasive problem of high-cost, ...
  3 days ago

• Medtech: Where is the opportunity?

  
  advanced medical technologies — Authority: 127
  The areas of greatest opportunity in medtech are those which have already demonstrated they have plenty of upside, even if a robust number of competitors have already begun targeting them. Areas of the strongest market growth in medical technologies that we are seeing have emerged out of the major segments we have ...
  3 days ago

• The Device Industry Is Too Easy a Target

  
  advanced medical technologies — Authority: 113
  In a Nov. 5 article in the NY Times, Barry Meier takes more than a scathing perspective of the device industry. By the account given, the device industry runs like a business, seeking profit as a motive that is secondary only to self-preservation. But wait, the physicians are either all ignorant of anything that ...
  4 days ago

• Venture Capital in Healthcare

  
  advanced medical technologies — Authority: 127
  Regularly updated list of venture capitalists investing in healthcare .  Links to portfolio pages.
  5 days ago

• Big developments (like in stem cell) need big money

  
  advanced medical technologies — Authority: 113
  A project announced by the Invest in France Agency on the collaboration of three French biotech clusters for the development of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) today points to the promise of a non-controversial approach to stem cell therapies. By developing the technology to create custom induced ...
  5 days ago

• NOTES Procedures Offer Benefits, Some Challenge

  
  advanced medical technologies — Authority: 127
  The development of less invasive surgical procedures continues to move toward procedures that may be "incisionless" or only require small perforations to accommodate surgical tools.  Principal among approaches that are under evaluation are NOTES procedures — Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery — in ...
  6 days ago

• Technologies at medical technology startups

  
  advanced medical technologies — Authority: 127
  Medical technology startup companies that we identified during the month of October 2009 are developing the following specific technologies: Diagnostic imaging in urology and oncology. Endoscopic tissue management technology. Esophageal monitoring device to replace peripheral artery catheter. Products for ...
  1 week ago

• Medical technology financings take a dip in October

  
  advanced medical technologies — Authority: 127
  Medical technology financings for the month of October stood at $202 million, marking the third month in a row that financings have declined, from a high in 2009 of $440 million in July.  See financings by month for September , August  and July and for 2009 trend . We ...
  1 week ago

• Medical technology incubators

  
  advanced medical technologies — Authority: 127
  Here is a partial list of medical technology Incubators, defined as such by themselves or by the nature of their more active involvement (beyond funding) in the nuturing and development of "portfolio" companies — providing space, management and other support. Cardium Therapeutics The Foundry Interwest ...
  1 week ago

• Palmaz says the stent future is in bare metal

  
  advanced medical technologies — Authority: 127
  Dr. Julio Palmaz, who with Dr. Richard Schatz patented the balloon-expandable stent, believes that, while the market for stents has evolved from bare metal stents to drug-eluting stents (DES), the inevitable limitation of DES will be that they lead to inflammatory response and that their real drawback is thaty they ...
  1 week ago

• CryoLife Gets IDE Approval BioFoam Use in Hemostasis of Liver

  
  advanced medical technologies — Authority: 127
  CryoLifes BioFoam, a protein hydrogel, received FDA approval today to begin an IDE for sealing of liver parenchymal tissue when conventional methods (e.g., ligature) prove ineffective. The approved IDE is for a prospective, multicenter, randomized feasibility study evaluating safety outcomes of BioFoam as compared ...
  1 week ago

• Krucoff: Second-Generation Drug-Eluting Stents Better at Anti-Restenosis

  
  advanced medical technologies — Authority: 127
  The improvements in stent flexibility and biocompatibility have lead to the conclusion by Dr. Mitchell Krucoff that second-generation drug eluting-stents, such as Abbotts Xience stent, result in an improved ability to prevent restenosis following angioplasty and stent implantation. See an excerpt from Indias ...
  2 weeks ago

• October 2009 Medtech Financings

  
  advanced medical technologies — Authority: 127
  Medical technology company financings for the month of October have reached just shy of $200 million.  Levels have dropped from the burst of $400+ million per month in July and August, as well as from the $328 million in September.  Take out the two most significant fundings in October, the $40 million for Direct ...
  2 weeks ago

• Growth of coronary stent market in Japan, China

  
  advanced medical technologies — Authority: 127
  (The global market for coronary stents worldwide is assessed in the MedMarket Diligence report #C245 , "Worldwide Market for Drug-Eluting, Bare Metal and Other Coronary Stents, 2008-2017.") The market for coronary stents in Asia and the Pacific region contains both China (early technology adopters) and Japan ...
  2 weeks ago

• TummyTuck: Cohera Medical To Begin Abdominoplasty Human Clinical Trials of TissuGlu(R) in Europe | Reuters

  
  advanced medical technologies — Authority: 127
  According to a recent press release from Cohera Medical, the company is about to begin (in November) human clinical trials in Europe of its TissuGlue (see link .) for use in abdominoplasty: The feasibility study will investigate the safety and preliminary effectiveness of TissuGlu® and its effect on wound ...
  2 weeks ago

• Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (Gauze and Foam)

  
  advanced medical technologies — Authority: 127
  In results presented in a poster session at the 24th Annual Clinical Symposium on Advances in Skin and Wound Care (San Antonio, TX), the Advanced Wound Management Division of Smith & Nephew highlighted that gauze-based negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) can achieve the same treatment goals as foam-based NPWT, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Ultra High Resolution Video Used In Laparoscopic Surgery (Why?)

  
  advanced medical technologies — Authority: 113
  As an aficionado of advanced medical technologies, I can only marvel at a laparoscopc video system that has four times the resolution of HD. However, even if I were not being relentlessly remnded by every manner of media that healthcare costs are spiralling out of control, I would have to look at the description of ...
  2 weeks ago

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