In initiating our report on “Micro- and Nanomedicine“, which details the full spectrum of products, technologies and markets in the application of MEMS and nanotech to medical use, I elected not to approach this as an update of the report we did in 2003, for several reasons. First, I was able to draw on very [...]
Here’s another reference from BusinessWeek today, “Bypass that Operation”, on the same vein about doctors who don’t know what they are doing, including performing unnecessary surgery. It suggests that many if not most of 400,000 bypass surgeries and 1 million angioplasties are unnecessary.
While I find fault with the general tone of this article, glorifying Dr. [...]
I have always had a rather sanguine understanding of medicine, having been sensitized to its practical limitations for most of my life. Having been the son of a general surgeon and the nephew of a pediatrician, I saw many aspects of medicine that have tempered my thinking about treatment alternatives in the medical device industry. [...]
Market shares for key players supplying GERD devices in the U.S. are shown in the chart at right.
Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is a growing problem affecting approximately 5% of the population. An estimated $10 billion is spent on GERD in the United States each year. It is primarily treated with medical therapies (e.g., proton pump [...]
The potential for nanomedicne, the medical application of nanotechnology, is vast, as has been pronounced almost endlessly since it was conceived. However, already on the market in the United States are wound dressings that exploit the antimicrobial properties of nanocrystalline silver, and nanotech-based products for drug delivery, materials technologies and other nanomedical applications are indeed [...]
The process of engineering tissues is advancing to the point where researchers actually consider such possibilities as organ printing. The formation of organs proceeds, at least in principle, on the formation of tubes, which then fuse after incubation in a bioreactor. It was described this way in Wired.Of course, organ complexity in terms of differentiated [...]
Long term studies, performed with the goal of capturing more data that will enable more confident conclusions, sometimes become moot when more recent studies eclipse their premise.In the May issue of the Journal Diabetes, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health reported on the Pittsburgh Epidemiology of Diabetes Complications (EDC) Study’s [...]
