Stent-Grafts for AAA will represent a $1 billion market in less than five years.
Endovascular aortic repair (EVAR) is one of the most significant technological advances in vascular surgery over the last decade and continues to show promise as a less-invasive alternative to conventional surgery in treating patients with abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs) or thoracic aortic [...]
Company Steadily Secures the Urogenital Treatment Market
The acquisition of Laserscope by American Medical Systems Holdings this month for $715 million adds a certain punctuation to AMSH’s steadily growing presence in the field of urogenital medicine or, as the company refers to it, “pelvic health.” Lest there be any doubt, AMSH has been on a Tyco-like [...]
(June 2006 MedMarket Outlook in MedMarkets)
Megatrends in Medical Technology
Aside from other trends in the medical product industry we’ve addressed previously in MedMarket Outlook, such as the dissolution of boundaries between device and pharmaceutical technologies, the increasing integration of information and information technologies with medtech, and the rise of “holistic research” (aka “systems biology”) that recognizes [...]
Not a great picture, I know, but this is partly due to technology limitation (mobile phone pic sent to go@mobile.com). But this is a screenshot of the one of the database data entry forms used in our internal company database, which in turn is used to track medtech companies (and other entities (e.g., VCs, [...]
A report in the June 7 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute (see article in Medical News Today):
Screening for cancer can find tumors that might not otherwise have been diagnosed in a person’s lifetime, a situation called overdiagnosis. Overdiagnosis wastes health care resources. Tests and treatment resulting from overdiagnosis can lead to [...]
The New York Times reported today that in January 2005 Guidant drafted a letter warning doctors about a short circuiting defect in its Contak Renewal and Contak Renewal 2 defibrillators, but never sent the letters to doctors over concerns the letter would cause “undue alarm” and result in procedures to remove potentially faulty devices, and [...]
