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 [...]
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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New companies in the medical technology industry are pursuing technologies to make existing technologies obsolete, expand existing markets, create new markets and otherwise tap into demand for new solutions in healthcare.
The following are brief technology descriptions for companies newly added to the MedMarket Diligence Medtech Startups Database and/or covered in the Startups coverage in the [...]
(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 [...]
We analyze medical device markets and, by natural extention, markets encompassing devices or simply competing with them. We identify a specific disease or disorder, characterize its patient population, current and emerging trends in treatment and then characterize the markets for the products used. We may alternatively focus on an organ system (e.g., ophthalmology or a [...]
(The GERD patient population is a largely untapped surgical market; see chart entitled, “Total Potential Market for Endoscopic GERD Therapies”)
Physicians from UT Southwestern Medical Center and engineers from UT Arlington have collaborated to develop a new technology for detecting the occurrence of heartburn and gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD). Presented in May at the Digestive Disease [...]
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 [...]
As I was considering topics for the April issue of MedMarkets, I came across a story in Reuters that aspirin was associated with reduced incidence and mortality from cancer. That aspirin should have such a therapeutic benefit was not surprising, especially considering the data that has been appearing from different sources that inflammation (aspirin is [...]
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 [...]