Invent Bio-Med’s Nova Vida Chrome Gets CE Certification

INVENT Bio-Med, a manufacturer for high quality Vascular Interventional Devices in India, has recently received the Conformite Europeenne (CE) certification for drug eluting stent (DES) - Nova Vida Chrome, from EVPU as.

Ravi Shankar Srivastava, chairman and managing director and Shardul Srivastava, vice president, Invent Bio-Med, Confirmed that it is the fourth company in India to have CE certificate from EVPU for this kind of Class III product...

Arkray Group To Acquire IVD Business Of Span Diagnostics For Rs.100 Crore

Indian arm of Japanese medical technology leader, US$ 700-mn Arkray Group will acquire the In-Vitro Diagnosis (IVD) business of Gujarat-based Span Diagnostics Ltd (Span). The enterprise value of the transaction is estimated to be around Rs.100 crore...

Evonik Launches Care Product Lines Designed Specifically For Medical Market

Polymer’s Biocompatibility, Chemical Resistance Excellent For Medical Devices

Evonik Corporation launched VESTAMID® Care, TROGAMID® Care and VESTAKEEP® Care product lines of high-performance polymers, which are designed specifically for use in medical devices...

New Silicone Film From Wacker For Wound Dressing

Wacker, the Germany-based chemical group, launched a silicone film for medical applications at Compamed 2013. Silpuran Film can be used as a flexible wound dressing, as a breathable membrane or as a dielectric elastomer in sensors and artificial muscles...

Medical Device Innovator Spreads Winds In Country

Masimo, the inventor of breakthrough noninvasive patient monitoring technologies, recently announced the opening of offices across India to meet the health demands...

Medical Device Plastic Material Innovations To Watch

The medical device universe encompasses a particularly imposing spectrum of constant technological innovation, including hundreds of different technologies and thousands of types of products. This affords high-performance specialty plastics material suppliers unique opportunities in medical device market development...

US-Based Merit Medical Systems Opens Office In Bengaluru

US based Merit Medical Systems, Inc., a leading manufacturer and marketer of proprietary medical disposable devices used primarily in cardiology, radiology and endoscopy, has kicked off operations in Bengaluru...

Johnson & Johnson Adjusted Net Earnings Up By 37% In Q4

Johnson & Johnson (J&J) has posted a net profit, after special items, of US$ 3,519 million during the fourth quarter ended December 2013 from $2,567 million in the corresponding period of last year, a growth of 37.1 per cent. However, its profit before special items and tax declined by 11.3 per cent to $2,750 million from $3,100 million...

Lilly India & Boehringer Ingelheim India Launch 'Next Generation' Re-Usable Insulin Pen – HumaPen SAVVIO

Eli Lilly and Company India (Lilly), a leading innovation-driven corporation, and Boehringer Ingelheim India, the world’s 20 leading pharmaceutical companies, recently announced the launch of HumaPen SAVVIO, an innovative insulin delivery pen that meets the diabetics’ individual need. This latest innovation is engineered to resemble as a small personal accessory rather than a medical device...

Plastic Device Aids Knee Replacement

OrthoSensor Verasense Knee System is a new technology for knee replacement operations. In the past getting the alignment of the joints correct has taken a mixture of experience and educated guesswork, without specific metrics to aid in the alignment. Up until now, plastic tibial trial spacers, and other instrumentation, were used to aid the surgeons, but without any concrete data as to load and alignment...

Mediprene TPE Used For Radial Compression Device

Perouse Medical, the French medical equipment maker, has chosen grades of Mediprene thermoplastic elastomer (TPE) from Elasto Sweden for its Seal One radial compression device.

The Seal One allows for precise adjustment and control of compression levels of the radial artery. The two grades of Mediprene TPE were developed by Elasto Sweden specifically for this application...

Innovations In Plastic Drive Past, Present & Future Medical Care

Ever stop and look around during a doctor or hospital visit? Even a cursory look reveals dozens of medical instruments and hygienic tools made with plastics: protective examination gloves, sterile bandages and gauze, syringes that help prevent infection, IV tubes and bags that guard against contamination-all made possible by plastics...

Creating Medical Plastics That Heal Themselves

New polymers could allow for self-healing materials, the University of Pittsburgh recently reported.

Materials manufactured from the new composites can regenerate themselves when damaged. Results of the Pitt research were recently published in the journal Nano Letters by the American Chemical Society...

MedTechs Tackle Replacing 'Workhorse' Plasticizer

The jury is still out over whether phthalate plasticizers such as DEHP really cause health problems in humans, according to Peter M. Galland of Teknor Apex. But publics and governments in the U.S. and Europe have become convinced enough that medical device companies will have to find replacements for them anyway...

Plastic Injection Protects Mouse Hearts After Attack

The discovery was a happy accident. It turns out that an injection of microscopic tags made of a plastic-like polymer can help limit tissue damage after a heart attack in mice. The hope is that it could one day help treat this and other conditions in humans...

New Packaging Plastic That Protects As Good As Aluminium Foil

Tera-Barrier Films (TBF) Pte Ltd, a spin-off company from A*STAR’s Institute of Materials Research and Engineering’s (IMRE), has invented a new plastic film using a revolutionary nano-inspired process that makes the material thinner but as effective as aluminium foil in keeping air and moisture at bay. The stretchable plastic could be an alternative for prolonging shelf-life of pharmaceuticals, food and electronics, bridging the gap of aluminium foil and transparent oxide films...

3 Major Trends In Barcode Labeling For Medical Devices

Trend: the general direction in which something is developing or changing. In the medical device industry - one of the fastest-growing and dynamic industries - trends are growing at the same pace, despite significant headwinds. Major trends take hold as rules and regulations are finalized, implementation dates are set, and initiatives turn into standards...

ASEAN Countries Could Be The Next Emerging MedTech Markets

Thanks to a large population, rising middle class, and increasing healthcare spending, the 10 countries that make up the Association of Southeast Asian Nations are gaining attention from medical device makers...