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Medical Technology Market Analysis, MedMarkets (April 2008)

Below is the coverage in the April 2008 issue of MedMarkets.

Ablation:  An Energized Market
Demand for Hip and Knee Implants Expected to Increase
MedMarket Outlook: Beyond Technology Innovation: Current and Future Market Forces and Trends
Early Stage Companies: Evalve, ES Vascular, Cardiorobotics, TriVascular
Early Stage Company Financings: Alure Medical, Arbel Medical, Breathe Technologies, CoAxia, IDev Technologies, IlluminOss [...]

“High Growth Medical Technologies” 2008

We have just updated our “High Growth Medical Technologies” white paper, as we expect to continually do in the immediate future, since the areas with growth keep changing, and new areas keep appearing.
As all white papers should be, it’s free.  Here’s the link so you can download it.
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MedMarket Outlook: High Growth Medical Technologies

(From the September 2007 issue of MedMarkets)
Drawing upon the clinical and technology sectors we have addressed in MedMarkets and the Market and Technology Reports of MedMarket Diligence, we have previously identified a number of areas where we see substantial growth in medical technology markets. In our white paper, High Growth Medical Technologies, we note those [...]

Surgical Procedures Worldwide with Potential for Use of Hemostats, Med/Surg Glues & Sealants and Adhesion Prevention

Surgical wounds are projected to increase in number at an annual rate of 3%, but overall the severity and size of surgical wounds will continue to decrease over the next five years as a result of the continuing trend toward minimally invasive surgery.

Surgical procedures generate a large number of uncomplicated acute wounds with uneventful healing, [...]

The Medical Technology Future as Defined by Startups

Not every start-up succeeds. But every single successful medical technology company was once a start-up. From a primary consideration, start-up companies have been founded based on: (1) what technologies they consider possible, and (2) the need for clinical solutions to problems that exist in health care. For this reason, we look at the range of [...]

The Role of Sealants and Glues in Surgery

The terms “sealant” and “glue” tend to be used interchangeably in the surgical context, but in fact there is a difference in adhesive strength between sealants, pioneered by fibrin products (sometimes homemade) and the later, stronger glues of which cyanoacrylate-based products were the leaders.
Fibrin sealants represented a revolution in local hemostatic measures for both bleeding [...]

Medical Devices Fill Gap in Slowing Pharma Pipeline

I have to admit that at times I feel like a broken record, repeatedly pointing out the fact that medical technologies — medical devices in particular — are frequently found to be providing clinical solutions to problems that neither drug companies nor biotech companies are able to achieve.  It’s a sort of yankee ingenuity made [...]

Categories on medtech companies tracked

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, [...]