Category: Technology & Devices
Andhra Pradesh, TUV Rheinland team up to deliver quality medical devices
The Indian subsidiary of German technical services provider TUV Rheinland has collaborated with Andhra Pradesh MedTech Zone (AMTZ) to create an infrastructure for Electro-Magnetic Interference (EMI/EMC) with an investment of Rs850 million over four to five years. The public-private partnership aims to reduce the medical device import, production cost and to help deliver quality medical [...]
‘Smart’ clothes invented to monitor healthcare
Asahi Kasei aims to monitor wearers’ health through “smart” clothes which includes medical applications that can potentially save their lives. Smart clothing is a promising new field in Japan’s crowded textile market. Tokyo-based Asahi Kasei lags its competitors — it hopes to enter the business as soon as next year — but is looking to [...]
India’s drug pricing regulator seeks addition of medical devices to control list
India’s drug pricing regulator requested the country’s health ministry for the addition of four medical devices to a list of products qualified for price controls to lower the costs to patients, which would mean another swing to the nation’s US$5 billion-a-year medical-technology industry. The National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) stated that it did not plan [...]
Wales receives UK’s first proton beam machine
Proton Partners International (PPI), a Wales-based private company that provides innovative cancer care, has received the key component that will fire the UK’s first high-energy proton beam machine at its Rutherford Cancer Centre. Currently, only low-energy treatment is available in the UK for rare eye cancers. But PPI said the UK’s “most-advanced piece of cancer [...]
Capsule robot could make colonoscopies easier for patients
A new 18-mm magnetized capsule colonoscope which is guided by an external magnet attached to a robotic arm has been shown to successfully navigate and perform intricate maneuvers inside the colon. Researchers are hoping the new technology could help make the life-saving screening test easier and less uncomfortable for patients. They are also hoping the [...]
Pelican BioThermalunveils Series 22 Universal for CRT shipments
Pelican BioThermal, a global leader in cold chain and temperature-controlled packaging solutions for the life sciences industry, has launched its Series 22 Universal system for Crēdo shippers at Temperature Controlled Logistics in Biopharmaceuticals USA located in Princeton, New Jersey. Series 22 Universal is one of two options for Pelican BioThermal controlled room temperature (CRT) cold [...]
New tech that could monitor drug levels may prevent under-, overdosing
Engineers have developed a new drug delivery tool that has the potential to help monitor and maintain drug levels in the body. If the experimental medical technology successfully works in humans, it could help deliver the optimal dose of life-saving drugs and prevent harmful overdosing or underdosing. Each person processes medication differently. One person’s perfect [...]
US FDA approves handheld device designed to treat cluster headaches
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a handheld device that is designed to treat a rare form of headache, known as cluster headaches, which affect mostly men. The device is a vagus nerve stimulator. However, it’s still not entirely clear how it works. The idea is to disrupt signals that run along [...]
Smart bandages with real-time 5G tech could be trialed within next 12 months
Smart bandages that would use real-time 5G technology to monitor what treatment is needed, keep track of a patient’s activity levels, detect how a wound is healing, and send messages back to doctors could be trialed within the next 12 months, scientists said. The work is being led by Swansea University’s Institute of Life Science [...]
Evonik’s healthcare unit opens new applied technology lab in Thailand
Evonik Health Care, a part of global specialty chemicals company Evonik, opened a new applied technology laboratory in Bangkok, Thailand for the development of oral formulations for drugs and dietary supplements. The new facility is the latest addition to Evonik’s global network of Health Care laboratories, and is the first laboratory in Southeast Asia for [...]
