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RF Ablation Proving Itself in Barrett’s Esophagus

From PRNewswire and Bio-Medicine.org… link. Results presented at this week’s Digestive Disease Week meeting in Chicago illustrated the effectiveness of BÂRRX Medical, Inc.’s HALO ablation system in the treatment of the pre-cancerous condition known as Barrett’s esophagus. The HALO ablation system uses radiofrequency (RF) energy to remove the epithelium in the esophagus of patients with [...]

Medical technology platforms with high growth potential

Specific technologies and broad technology platforms have tremendous potential for market growth based on combinations of recent technology advancement, changes in clinical practice, current forces in the market and other criterial.  Biotech solutions to traditional medical device technologies.  The thrust of medical technology is, and has been for a long time, to make it as effective [...]

Medical technology defies definition

In a prior post, I sought to explore the shifting nature of the medical industry, from clearly defined categories of devices, drugs and diagnostics to a spectrum of products that defy categorization into any one category and instead frequently qualify as multiple. …Competition in the medical product industry has long since changed from being defined [...]

Trends and drivers (continued) in medical technology

 More medtech trends Nanotechnology advances.  The use of nanotechnology in medicine has faced as many overblown promises as any other application of nanotechnology. However, any realistic view of future medical technologies with big impact would be amiss if it did not consider the myriad applications of "nanotechnology", which we place in quotes to denote that [...]

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, [...]

“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. bookmark to

New medical technology startups, coverage in November 2007

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 [...]

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 [...]

Obesity Co-Morbidities

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 [...]

New Detection System for GERD

(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 [...]