Cardiovascular disease includes high blood pressure, coronary heart disease (myocardial infarction, angina pectoris), heart failure, stroke, and congenital cardiovascular defects. Roughly 80 million Americans have one or more of these types of heart disease. Of those, more than 38 million are greater than 60 years of age.
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death worldwide [...]
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 as [...]
As I am occasionally known to do, I am providing the list of actual company names recently identified (October 2008) as medtech startups (and included in the Medtech Startups Database). See below:
Tissue Fusion, LLC (laser devices to "weld" biological tissues together for wound closures)
Applied Catheter Technologies, Inc. (drug-coated urinary and other catheters and stents that [...]
There is certainly the possibility (despite my doubts) that the current economic slowdown in global markets will have major effects on the medical technology industry. One simply cannot deny that there is simply less VC or other cash floating around that might be put to medtech investment. And maybe, as has occurred in [...]
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