'More than 3 mn children await cochlear implants'

MedTech |  Influencers | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 03 Mar, 2014

Dr Ingeborg Hochmair is the founder and CEO of worldwide hearing implant leader MED-EL. In September 2013, Dr Ingeborg Hochmair, was nominated for the prestigious Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Me...Read more

Cochlear electrode gets US FDA approval

MedTech |  Regulatory | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 13 Jun, 2012

Singapore: Cochlear has received the US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) approval for its Nucleus CI422 with Slim Straight Electrode, the newest electrode in its broad portfolio of impl...Read more

REVA Medical appoints investigator for clinical trial

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

Singapore: REVA Medical, listed with the ASX, has appointed Dr David Muller, director, Cardiac Catheterization at St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, Australia, as co-principal investigator for ...Read more

ITRI biomed lab working with China on guidelines

MedTech |  Influencers | By Piyusha Chatterjee | 0 Comment | 17 Dec, 2012

Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) has one of the largest medical technology and device research labs in the country. The lab works on both medical devices and pharmac...Read more

Accuray to expand services in Japan

MedTech |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 21 Jun, 2012

Singapore: Accuray, a radiation oncology company, has extended its industry-leading Emerald Service Program for the TomoTherapy System, which provides equipment protection and product updat...Read more

Taiwanese doctor develops new cancer therapy

MedTech |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 18 Sep, 2012

Singapore: A US-based Taiwanese oncologist has developed a high precision robotic image-guided therapy system, Arc-Knife, that helps map the exact location of a tumor and direct radiation t...Read more

Top 20 Survey: Survey methodology

MedTech |  Analysis | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 03 Jul, 2014

This is the seventh edition of the BioSpectrum Asia Pacific Bioscience Industry Survey and the 2014 Survey provides a broad overview, performance, and trends of the bioscience industry in t...Read more

SphygmoCor XCEL receives US FDA clearance

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

Singapore: AtCor Medical, the developer and marketer of the SphygmoCor system which noninvasively measures central aortic blood pressures and arterial stiffness, received US FDA clearance t...Read more

Inex, BGI launches fetal sex chromosome test kit

MedTech |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 27 May, 2013

Singapore: Inex Innovations Exchange (Inex), a women's health diagnostics company based in Singapore, and BGI Clinical Laboratories, are expanding their Non Invasive Prenatal Test (NIPT) iG...Read more

Ziehm Medical opens office in Guangzhou

MedTech |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 24 Apr, 2013

Singapore: Ziehm Medical Shanghai (ZMS), daughter company of the German manufacturer of mobile C-arms Ziehm Imaging, has opened a branch office in Guangzhou in China. This second office in...Read more

Shiraz Bugwadia, Prashant Jain: JV is the new Indian mantra

MedTech |  Opinion | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 12 Jun, 2013

Given that India pharma market currently ranks 13th by value and fourth by volume globally, and it has the maximum number of US FDA approved plants outside of the US and has already bagged ...Read more

Vancive, CareFusion sign antimicrobial dressing deal

MedTech |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 29 Nov, 2013

Singapore: Vancive Medical Technologies and CareFusion inked an exclusive agreement in the US, Canada and Mexico for the licensing and distribution of Vancive's BeneHold Chlorhexidine Gluc...Read more

China medtech giant enters Ukraine market

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

Singapore: Dehaier Medical Systems, an emerging leader in the development, assembly, marketing and sale of medical devices and homecare medical products in China, has won a three-year procu...Read more

Fluke Biomedical launches green biomedical tester

MedTech |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 30 May, 2012

Singapore: Fluke Biomedical has launched new ProSim SPOT Light SpO2 Functional Tester, the first biomedical test tool in the market to achieve the RoHS E Environmentally-Friendly label. Sho...Read more

Abbott recalls blood glucose test strips in US

MedTech |  Regulatory | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 29 Nov, 2013

Singapore: Global healthcare company, Abbott is initiating a voluntary recall of 20 lots of FreeStyle and FreeStyle Lite Blood Glucose Test Strips in the United States. These lots of test s...Read more

New Zealand university gets $1 mn for diabetes research

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

Singapore: The University of Canterbury scientists in New Zealand are seeking a major medical breakthrough in potentially identifying people most at risk of becoming diabetic. The universit...Read more

Disappearing stent hailed as cardiac revolution

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

Bangalore: The recently launched bioresorbable vascular scaffold (BVS), which is also known as disappearing stent, is being hailed as the fourth revolution in management of coronary artery ...Read more

China Kanghui net revenue increases by over 21%

MedTech |  Company results | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 25 May, 2012

Singapore: China Kanghui, a developer, manufacturer and marketer of orthopedic implants in China, disclosed its unaudited financial results for the first quarter (Q1) of 2012. It revealed ...Read more