The first open-access biotech laboratory has opened in Manchester, affording early-stage biotech and medtech companies, as well as entrepreneurial individual scientists with unrestricted, pay-as-you-go access to facilities and equipment. Visitors
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Fewer than two in 10 medicines exceed the average pharmaceutical R&D cost required to bring a drug to market when the risks of failure to reach market approval are factored
The European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) 2016 annual report focuses on the Agency’s key achievements in the areas of medicine evaluation, support to research and development of new and innovative treatments and
Intuitive Surgical has bagged a CE mark for the latest product in its da Vinci series of robot-assisted surgical systems. The regulatory nod clears Intuitive Surgical to start selling a
A plastic bag-like medical device filled with amniotic fluid acting as an ‘artificial womb’ has been tested successfully in a study using unborn lambs. The womb-like environment designed by paediatric
This year’s Med-Tech Innovation Expo will see 3D printing and additive manufacturing group Stratasys demonstrate how its advanced 3D printing technologies are “transforming the delivery of healthcare across the medical
Pharmaceutical wholesaler United Drug has announced a €40 million investment in technology and innovation at its headquarters at Citywest in Dublin. United Drug works with more than 1,800 pharmacies, hospitals,
Merck, a leading science and technology company, announced today the new startups participating in its Accelerator programs in Darmstadt, Germany and Nairobi, Kenya. The two program locations accept startups from
A start-up company is aiming to help pharmaceutical professionals by helping them communicate through the use of an online educational platform. The Doctrina platform lets professionals working in the pharmaceutical
Mobile communications company Nokia is launching a range of connected health products this summer. The launch will mark the rebranding of consumer electronics company Withings’ range of connected health products.
The University of Surrey has launched a new academic programme, aimed to help change the delivery of healthcare in the UK. Innovation for Health is an academic programme which combines
Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) present a new method that should enable controlled drug delivery into the bloodstream using DNA computers. In the journal Nature Communications the team,
Over five million patients will soon be able to access Wi-Fi in early adopter GP practices as the NHS takes the first step towards rolling the service out across the
Originally projected to be on the market by 2020, excitement about the contact lens to measure glucose levels from Novartis and Google has waned. Why? In 2016, smart wearables growth was steady but
On Feb. 2, 2017 Pharmapack Europe announced the winners of the 2017 Pharmapack Awards. The winners were revealed during the Pharmapack Europe conference, which took place from Feb. 1–2, 2017
A high-tech robot that helps surgeons perform highly precise and minimally-invasive surgery has been used over 1,000 times at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals. The £1.8 million Da Vinci machine is used
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