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Are We Close to a Global Ban on Powdered Medical Gloves?

Are We Close to a Global Ban on Powdered Medical Gloves?


Gloves are the most common type of Personal Protective Equipment PPE Gloves are considered a barrier protecting both healthcare worker and patient from the transfer of harmful microorganisms Powder has been used as a lubricant in the manufacture of medical gloves in order to facilitate donning and t...
Emerging Trends in Medical Innovation for 2017

Emerging Trends in Medical Innovation for 2017


The past few years have been transformative in the world of medical innovation with the use of personal and portable devices and advances in integrating these with personal healthcare and information technology systems In we have witnessed tremendous growth in portable and mobile devices Looking fo...
Preventing Medical Errors with Proven Bar-Code Technology

Preventing Medical Errors with Proven Bar-Code Technology


A US television commercial for Berlitz language courses begins with a senior officer briefing a draftee on how to man the station before leaving him on his own No sooner had the officer left than a desperate call crackled over the radio May day May day Hello Can you hear us We are sinking WE ARE SIN...
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Medical Device Research at a Regional Health System


The Mercy experience
Mercys research department develops information from electronic information systems to support quality improvement and operational efficiencies that generate revenue A major research effort was a Unique Device Identifier UDI project which resulted in operational efficiencies and a database that is b...
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Nano-Healthcare


Biotechnology & biomedical perspective of disruptive potential
Nanotechnology or the science of the small has become the buzzword of academic and industrial circles which has diversified across various verticals such as healthcare aerospace defense materials and many more The beginnings of nanotechnology could be attributed to Sir Richard Feynman who in his lan...
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Devices for the Failing Heart


The future is here
Mechanical Circulatory Support MCS is an important adjunct to the management of patients with severe heart failure Because the number of donor hearts available for transplantation is limited the use of MCS is growing as a valid alternative to save the lives of patients who are facing death There...
Medical Devices

Medical Devices


Going the generic way
Over the last two decades technical improvements in the development of medical devices have helped create a thriving US billionayear global industry The expansion of innovative and original medical device manufacturing techniques has yielded remarkable biotechnological progress that has prolonged t...
Life Sciences Industry

Life Sciences Industry


Converging for better care
What are the forces driving this convergence Many factors are driving and influencing convergence in todays life sciences industry Recent scientific advances and improvements in enabling technologies have opened new avenues for convergence among drugs diagnostics and devices Aging populations an...
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Networking Implanted Medical Devices


Ensuring effectiveness and security
Over the past fifty years implanted medical devices have undergone at least four major technologydriven paradigm shiftsmajor changes in worldview for designers users and recipients of such devices The first was the miniaturisation of electronics and batteries that allowed devices to be implanted...
Biosimilars

Biosimilars


What lies ahead?
How different are Biosimilars from traditional generics in terms of manufacturing and approval The differences between traditional generics and biosimilars are really quite fundamental Biologicals are orders of magnitude more complex both in structure and in terms of impurity profile compared to...
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