Tag Archives: gastroenterology

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 [...]

Ablation: An Energized Market

The post below has been superceded by the 2010 analysis, "Ablation Technologies Worldwide Market 2009-2019".  See link for details.  See also "Japanese Ablation Market", "Cryotherapy and Cryosurgery", and "Radiofrequency ablation devices". (See July 2010 report #A145, "Ablation Technologies Worldwide Market, 2009-2019," from MedMarket Diligence, LLC.  May be purchased online.) Energy-based therapies generate sales of $13 [...]

Obesity Management Products Segment Sales Growth

The revenues to be had from the clinical management of obesity, whether derived from pharmaceutical or device sales, are forecast to see double-digit growth through 2015. Although revenues have been dampened by the FDA’s negative reaction to Sanofi-Aventis’ application for rimonabant, there are other drug compounds in late stages of testing which may prove to [...]

“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

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 [...]

Obesity Drug and Device Markets

The current worldwide value of drugs and devices for the treatment of obesity stands at $750 million, representing a minor share of the combined potential market expected for these products over the next decade as rates of obesity incidence and prevalence surge and as recognition of its healthcare cost drives development of effective solutions. Given [...]

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 [...]

Obesity Drugs Take Hit; Market Potential Undaunted

The worldwide market for obesity drugs represents an extremely attractive opportunity, even more so now that Sanofi-Aventis rimonabant has failed to gain FDA approval. A surprise to no one, the incidence of obesity and morbid obesity is on the rise, pushing an aggregate prevalence in excess of 300 million patients globally, and outpaced in growth [...]

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 [...]