Cancer is a significant opportunity for the development of tissue engineering and cell therapies, but it is more than just an opportunity currently, since many companies are active and the market for cancer cell/tissue therapies already stands at nearly $500 million.
Currently, OSI Pharmaceuticals has a commanding lead in this area, with its Tarceva being [...]
The global market for coronary stents is estimated to be in excess of $7 billion and projected to be growing at 6% per year. With the average age of citizens in developed countries increasing, there is an increased need to provide medical care to the average citizen. As such, an aging population translates into increasing [...]
Our research into the products, technologies, companies and markets for tissue engineering and cell therapy has revealed that the 2009 market was at $6.9 billion. The market has grown dramatically, in commercialized products and company activity, over the past few years and is on an accelerated growth rate as technology hurdles are overcome and clinical [...]
High-strength surgical glue products were approved for topical closure applications in the United States in the late 1990s. Outside the United States, high-strength glues and adhesives have been approved in some countries for a number of years and have built up a track record of use in internal surgery. With time, high-strength glues will come [...]
Below is a brief profile of Adhezion Biomedical, LLC, one of the companies active in the surgical sealants and glues market and profiled in the MedMarket Diligence report #S175. We occasionally highlight companies whose products, in our opinion, are poised to make an impact on medtech markets.
Founded in 2001, Adhezion Biomedical (formerly Spartan Medical Products, [...]
Hemostats have been used for over a hundred years to stop bleeding in surgical and traumatic wounds. Primarily these products were first introduced to prevent hematomas during surgery with the aim of preventing resultant infections. During the 1980s and 1990s, the popularity of hemostats increased rapidly as surgeons tried to avoid excessive use of blood transfusions [...]
Products for the treatment of wounds can be divided into categories using a number of different classification systems. For the sake of analysis (as applied in the MMD report #S247), products and technologies in wound management can be divided generally into traditional products (simple bandages, dressings and closures) and advanced wound management. The advanced area [...]
Products, technologies, markets and companies are the focus of recent medtech global market reports from MedMarket Diligence:
"Worldwide Wound Management Market, 2008-2017", Report #S247 (September 2009)
This report details the complete range of products and technologies used in wound management and wound care, from dressings, bandages, hydrogels, tissue engineered products, physical treatments and [...]
Translation: Drug-eluting stents are to bare metal stents as bare metal stents were to percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty alone.
In the September 1 post on the meta-analysis by researchers at Tuft Medical Center, we noted the overall findings in general terms of the value of drug-eluting stents compared to bare metal stents. It is worthwhile to provide [...]
Wound management demands globally are as considerable as the range and diversity of therapeutic options to deal with them. Surgical, traumatic, burn, ulcer and other wound types are highly prevalent, growing in caseload and expensive when they fail to promptly heal. New products are steadily impacting the market, while development continues on many fronts including [...]
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