31 January 2012
Medical device refurbishment – restoring devices to their original specifications – has gained in importance as healthcare budgets have come under pressure. While some countries actively ban imports of such devices, attitudes generally towards the ...
24 January 2012
The medical device industry expects much more from the International Medical Device Regulators' Forum (IMDRF) than its predecessor, the GHTF, in many areas of its work of global medical device regulatory harmonisation.
So concludes a recent report, ...
05 January 2012
Personalised medicine holds the promise of improved, more targeted treatment for patients and companion diagnostics play a key role in this new healthcare paradigm. Dr Isao Ikeda, chairman of the AMMD's IVD Committee, provides an outline of the key ...
16 December 2011
Not just hospital staff, but government healthcare departments and medical device manufacturers stand to benefit from the new EU Sharps Directive. Ashley Yeo reports
The EU Sharps Directive, Council Directive 2010/32/EU of May 10 2010, has been a ...
01 December 2011
Any study of the emerging economies' healthcare market will always be about opportunity. But what about the market barriers and other challenges to harnessing that potential? This article attempts to map these challenges, based on developments in ...
01 December 2011
As of 31 October 2011, 146 acquisition deals crossed Clinica's news desk, slightly up from the 142 deals we recorded during the same period (1 January-31 October) last year. Although this seems to indicate a continuing upward trend over 2009, when ...
