Spinchrom to market Pall ForteBio's BLItz system

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

Singapore: Pall India entered into an exclusive India distribution agreement with a leading biosupplier, Spinchrom Life Sciences, a division of Spinco Biotech to market in India ForteBio's ...Read more

Merit Medical appoints Japan's Piolax as global distributor for micro guide wire

MedTech |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 16 May, 2016

Merit Medical Systems Inc, a leading manufacturer and marketer of proprietary disposable devices used primarily in cardiology, radiology and endoscopy, has signed a distribution deal with P...Read more

Mr Cameron Reynolds, VolitionRx: Patient awareness & demand will fuel diagnostics in 2013

MedTech |  Opinion | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 26 Dec, 2012

The diagnostics market is growing rapidly as patients demand earlier diagnosis of diseases through the use of less invasive diagnostic techniques. There is also greater awareness and demand...Read more

Sanofi opens insulin pen plant at Beijing

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

Singapore: Sanofi inaugurated a new assembling and packaging line to produce its flagship pre-filled insulin injection pen, Lantus SoloSTAR, at its Beijing plant located at the Beijing Econ...Read more

Medtronic MD: We are growing at a double digit rate

MedTech |  Influencers | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 25 Jan, 2013

Medtronic was founded in 1949 in the US as a medical equipment repair show by Mr Earl Bakken and Mr Palmer Hermundslie. It is now a multinational company that uses technology to transform t...Read more

Smart i-Oximeter

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

Company: Comdek Industrial Dimension: 11.5*6.5*1.9 cmWeight: 0.1kg i-Oximeter, a new generation of intelligent and hand-held oximeter, is specially designed for telemedicine and diagnosis...Read more

John Hurrell is Seegene's new senior executive VP

MedTech |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 15 Jan, 2013

Singapore: Seegene, a leading developer of multiplex molecular technologies and multiplex molecular diagnostic tests, announced the appointment of Dr John G Hurrell as its senior executive ...Read more

Osprey angiogram dye injector gets FDA clearance

MedTech |  Regulatory | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 23 Aug, 2013

Singapore: Osprey Medical received US FDA 510(k) clearance for its Avert System, which is designed to reduce the amount of dye injected and exposed to patients undergoing angiogram or diagn...Read more

BSI appointed as CAB for Malaysian Medical Devices Act 2012

MedTech |  Regulatory | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 26 Aug, 2013

Singapore: British Standards Institution (BSI), the business standards company, has been registered by the Malaysian Medical Device Bureau as one of the three Conformity Assessment Bodies (...Read more

PE fund declines, IPO surges in bioindustry: Report

MedTech |  Analysis | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 02 Jun, 2014

Singapore: Private equity and venture capital (PEVC) investment in the global pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry has dropped from 1063 deals in 2010 to 480 deals in 2013, according t...Read more

CSIR, HP launch cloud-enabled eHealth initiative

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

New Delhi: India's premier research and development body, Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) and Hewlett Packard (HP) jointly launched a rapidly deployable and fully int...Read more

FDA approves first home test kit for HIV

MedTech |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 05 Jul, 2012

Singapore: The US Food and Drug Administration has approved the OraQuick In-Home HIV Test, the first over-the-counter, self-administered HIV test kit to detect the presence of antibodies to...Read more

Ospens enters distribution deal with Japanese firm

MedTech |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 26 Nov, 2012

Singapore: Canadian company Opsens signed its first major agreement granting distribution and other rights for its OptoWire and OptoMonitor, Opsens' products for measuring fractional flow r...Read more

Wireless patient monitoring attracting VC interest

MedTech |  Analysis | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 15 Feb, 2013

Singapore: Wireless patient monitoring (WPM) technology is attracting the interest of market majors as well as a significant number of start-ups. Venture capitalists (VCs) are showing keen...Read more

Singapore, Japan to develop eye disease detection technology

MedTech |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 12 Jul, 2013

Singapore: A*STAR's Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), and Topcon Corporation, Japan based ophthalmic instruments and optometrics instruments manufacturer, have collaborated to develop ...Read more

Omron launches wireless sleep monitor in Japan

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

Singapore: Omron Healthcare has launched a new wireless sleep monitoring device in Japan that uses ResMed's technology acquired from its recently acquired company, BiancaMed. The Omron Slee...Read more

Laser-cooling holds promise for medical devices

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

Singapore: A latest discovery by scientists from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore related to cooling systems holds much promise for the medical devices segment. The proof...Read more

Starpharma dendrimer technology gets 3 US patents

MedTech |  Regulatory | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 17 Apr, 2013

Singapore: Australia's Starpharma has been granted three new patents by the US Patent and Trademark Office (US PTO). The patents provide "composition of matter" protection for Starpharma's ...Read more