Neusoft to acquire stakes in JV with Philips

MedTech |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 11 Feb, 2013

Singapore: Neusoft, an IT solution and service provider in China with operations across the globe, has signed a term sheet with Philips on the proposed transaction of shares and assets in P...Read more

Radioembolization to see strong growth in China

MedTech |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 24 May, 2012

Singapore: According to Millennium Research Group (MRG), a provider of market intelligence on medical technology, the embolization particle segment of the Asia Pacific transcatheter emboliz...Read more

China's Neusoft gets FDA nod for CT scanner

MedTech |  Regulatory | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 05 Dec, 2012

Singapore: NeuViz 64 multi-slice CT scanner from China-based Neusoft Medical Systems, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Neusoft has received FDA 510k clearance. The FDA approval of the NeuViz 6...Read more

Cardiva gets FDA nod for extravascular closure device

MedTech |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 07 Feb, 2013

Singapore: Cardiva Medical has received pre-market approval for the Vascade vascular closure system from the US Food and Drug Administration. Vascade, an extravascular closure device, utili...Read more

Osprey enrolls first patient for Cincor study

MedTech |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 21 Mar, 2013

Singapore: Australia's Osprey Medical has enrolled the first patient in Cincor IDE clinical study at the Leipzig Heart Centre in Germany. Dye is routinely used for x-ray of heart tissue dur...Read more

Sunshine Heart gets conditional FDA approval for C-Pulse System driver

MedTech |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 13 Aug, 2012

Singapore: US-based Sunshine Heart, which has a subsidiary in Australia, has received conditional approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its next generation C-Pulse Sys...Read more

Oliver-Tolas expands global operations

MedTech |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 08 Jul, 2013

Singapore: The newly acquired 50,000 square foot facility is adjacent to Oliver-Tolas' current Feasterville, Pennsylvania operation at Pennsylvania Boulevard. "We have been deliberating exp...Read more

RAPS, Singapore to build regulatory talent in medical devices

MedTech |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 14 Mar, 2013

Singapore: The Regulatory Affairs Professionals Society (RAPS) is partnering with five Singapore government agencies to develop and implement a new medical device regulatory affairs (MDRA) ...Read more

Dehaier to supply equipment to Beijing hospitals

MedTech |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 06 Nov, 2012

Singapore: Dehaier Medical has signed three medical equipment procurement agreements with Beijing's Hospitals 304 and 307, two of China's most well-known first-tier hospitals, and with Beij...Read more

HSA lowers fees for some medical devices

MedTech |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 09 Aug, 2012

Singapore: The Health Sciences Authority (HSA) has lowered the fees for medical devices such as blood pressure monitors and hearing aids, brought in under the Special Authorisation Routes (...Read more

AITbiotech to invest $3.94 mn to boost diagnostic technologies

MedTech |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 06 Mar, 2014

Singapore: AITbiotech, Singapore based Asian Molecular Diagnostic (MDx) assay manufacturer and Genomic services provider, plans to invest close to USD3.94 million (SGD5 million) in commerci...Read more

St Jude Medical's device offers hope for BP patients

MedTech |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 15 Nov, 2012

Bangalore: St Jude Medical, a global medical device company, announced that the company's EnligHTN renal denervation system provided a safe, effective and sustained reduction in office and ...Read more

Agenix acquires diagnostics technology from Tyrian

MedTech |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 29 Oct, 2012

Singapore: Agenix has entered an agreement with Tyrian Diagnostics to license its rapid point-of-care human diagnostic technology in a share exchange transaction. Under the terms of the ag...Read more

Vela Diagnostics enters IVD market

MedTech |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 07 Jun, 2012

Singapore: Singapore-based Vela Diagnostics has emerged as a new global player in the in vitro diagnostics market. The Singapore-headquartered group, which has already opened sites in New J...Read more

FDA nod for Novartis cystic fibrosis inhaler

MedTech |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 25 Mar, 2013

Singapore: US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Novartis' TOBI Podhaler (tobramycin inhalation powder) 28 mg per capsule for the management of cystic fibrosis (CF) patients wi...Read more

Varian to help cancer patients in Vietnam

MedTech |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 22 Aug, 2012

Singapore: Da Nang cancer hospital, Vietnam, has contracted with Varian Medical Systems to provide a radiotherapy system capable of delivering intensity-modulated radiotherapy treatments (I...Read more

Golden Meditech signs deal with subsidiary China Bright

MedTech |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 20 Sep, 2012

Singapore Golden Meditech Holdings, a leading integrated healthcare enterprise in China has reached agreements with certain investors which invested in China Bright Group, non-wholly-owned...Read more

Eye clinic on wheels for north India

MedTech |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 24 Jul, 2012

New Delhi: Noted entrepreneur and philanthropist Mr Tej Kohli is all set to launch the Drishti Rath, a complete eye clinic on wheels. After the successful launch of the corneal blindness er...Read more