Global life sciences hiring demand dips in Q4 2012

MedTech |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 04 Feb, 2013

Singapore: ZRG Partners, a global authority on talent management issues in the life sciences, pharmaceutical and medical markets, revealed that the year 2012 ended with two straight quarter...Read more

Mindray to acquire Zonare for $105 mn

MedTech |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 13 Jun, 2013

Singapore: Mindray Medical has plans to acquire Zonare Medical Systems, an ultrasound technology leader in the high-end radiology segment for $105 million. Mindray's management expects the ...Read more

GE Healthcare, Fortis pioneer Asia's first eICU

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

New Delhi: Fortis Healthcare and GE Healthcare have launched Asia's first electronic intensive care unit (eICU) facility CritiNext. The eICU services offer accessible specialty critical car...Read more

LSQ: Financial crunch makes capital harder to get

MedTech |  Influencers | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 10 Jun, 2013

Life Sciences Queensland (LSQ), Australia, offers opportunity for industry stakeholders to come together and cooperate to grow their businesses and help create a dynamic, internationally co...Read more

Urbanization causes elderly health suffering in India

MedTech |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 28 Sep, 2012

Bangalore: A report titled, 'Preventive Care and Healthy Ageing Global Perspective', released by the the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) has highlighted the state of elderly healthcare in...Read more

Top 20: Malaysia - Crosses $1B Mark

MedTech |  Analysis | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 09 Jul, 2014

Singapore: Malaysia has been strengthening its base during the few years attracting significant investments and collaborations. Some of the key developments include: Malaysia-based biote...Read more

New laser to deliver drugs painlessly

MedTech |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 17 Sep, 2012

Singapore: A new type of drug delivery system has been devised, which uses an erbium-doped yttrium aluminium garnet laser to propel a precise stream of medicine with the correct amount of f...Read more

SHL grows to 2000 employees in Taiwan

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

Singapore: SHL, Taiwan based designer, developer and manufacturer of advanced drug delivery devices, has touched 2,000 employees in Taiwan as of September 1, 2013. With the company's conti...Read more

Roche cancer test gets expanded CE mark

MedTech |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 27 Nov, 2012

Singapore: Roche has received an expanded CE mark indication for the cobas 4800 human papillomavirus virus (HPV) test as a primary screen. This means that Pap cytology is no longer required...Read more

APAC healthcare 2012 market touched $369.9 bn: F&S

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

Singapore: Singapore healthcare expenditure market was worth $11.7 billion in 2012 and will grow to $22.3 billion by 2018, which represents a compound annual growth rate of 11.4 percent fro...Read more

Boston Scientific China gets new MD

MedTech |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 14 Jun, 2012

Singapore: Mr Warren Wang has been appointed vice president and managing director of Boston Scientific Corporation's operations in China. Mr Wang is responsible for leading the company's te...Read more

EU nod for Eli Lilly Alzheimer's diagnostic agent

MedTech |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 16 Jan, 2013

Singapore: The European Commission has approved Amyvid (Florbetapir) solution for injection as a diagnostic radiopharmaceutical indicated for Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging of ...Read more

GE gets Frost & Sullivan award for AgileTrac

MedTech |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 17 Oct, 2012

Singapore: Frost & Sullivan recognized GE Healthcare with the 2012 North America Frost & Sullivan Award for Customer Value Enhancement following its analysis of real-time location s...Read more

Echo Therapeutics expands agreement with Ferndale

MedTech |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 12 Jul, 2012

Singapore: US-based Echo Therapeutics, a company developing its needle-free Symphony tCGM System as a non-invasive, wireless, transdermal continuous glucose monitoring system and its Prelud...Read more

Johnson portable doser delivers 100N force

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

Singapore: Hong kong-based Johnson Electric launched miniature medication dosing system technology under the Johnson Medtech brand, a platform that provides high precision dosing accuracy o...Read more

Cordis is TriReme's new catheter distributor

MedTech |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 20 Feb, 2014

‎Singapore: TriReme Medical, a subsidiary of Singapore-based QT Vascular, has signed a broad distribution agreement with Cordis for the exclusive distribution of its unique Chocolate ...Read more

Toshiba to help US universities in MRI research

MedTech |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 22 Apr, 2013

Singapore: Toshiba has partnered with Shands at the University of Florida (UF) and the Keck Medical Center of the University of Southern California (USC), US, for research in Magnetic Reson...Read more

Medtronic taps Asia markets for growth

MedTech |  Analysis | By Piyusha Chatterjee | 0 Comment | 26 Nov, 2012

Medtronic is putting in place plans to grow its emerging markets' revenue to 20 percent of the overall revenue in the next few years. In FY'12, the US-headquartered medical devices company ...Read more