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Introduction Cellular mechanisms driving cell death play a crucial role in various physiological and pathological processes. One such mechanism is apoptosis, a tightly regulated process vital for maintaining tissue homeostasis, development, and immune response. Apoptosis assays are valuable tools used by researchers to study the intricate details of this cellular event. This blog aims to ...
This could revolutionize the field of organ transplantation and offer hope to patients with organ failure. Drug testing: Bioprinted tissues can be used to test new drugs and therapies in a more realistic and humane way than traditional animal models. ...
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Factors Considered When Determining Shelf Life Expiration Dates Shelf life expiration dates are vitally important to ensure medical devices are safe to use. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requires product labels to indicate an expiration date if a certain component is not useful past a certain date. Therefore, medical device ...
Regulatory Requirements and Standards The Federal Drug Administration (FDA) oversees medical device package testing in the United States. ...
In biomedical engineering, hydrophobic polymers are used in the development of medical devices, implants, and drug delivery systems. Their water-repellent properties help prevent bacterial adhesion, ensuring the safety and efficacy of these devices. ...
Coated Microneedles Coated microneedles are also known as surface drug-loaded microneedles. The drug is attached to the surface of the microneedle by infiltration, coating or drug loading outside the needle. ...
The Brisbane-based designer of the world’s smallest orthopaedic screw has invoiced US hospital suppliers $900,000 in the three weeks since the device gained Food & Drug Administration approval, and he hopes it can soon be made in Brisbane too. ...
SMC Group provides an end-to-end solution for sterile injection devices, including autoinjectors. This end-to-end solution includes customisation of the appropriate device platform to meet the specific user requirements, component manufacture, filling of the primary drug container, and assembly and integration to produce the final ...
As summarized in the Table and illustrated in Figure 1, each of these mechanisms has a drug-based precedent and the devices are in various phases of clinical study. In general, in contrast to their drug-based precedents, which may have off-target and secondary mechanisms of action, these devices in principle more specifically ...
Alucent Biomedical Inc. is rethinking peripheral artery disease (PAD) treatment with a novel natural scaffolding technology based on a light-activated drug therapy delivered via a balloon catheter. This first-of-its-kind drug-device therapy, known as Natural Vascular Scaffolding (AlucentNVS), is designed to provide a more natural and effective ...
It meets international standards for medical devices and OSHA recommendations for needlestick safety devices. Latex free, the ClickZip™ Needle Retractable Safety Syringe has been listed by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and has current US FDA 510K and ARTG approval, CE marked and ISO certification. ...
Three years after Sanofi led its series B, Enable Injections has raised a $215 million round to fund work on subcutaneous drug delivery system enFuse. Enable Injections’ device consists of a wearable delivery disc and a system for transferring the drug from its original vessel. ...
Early Diagnosis is Essential Q: What is the benefit of an early AMD diagnosis if there’s not yet an FDA-approved drug to treat it? Dr. Dierker: We are fixated on a stage of disease that optometrists can’t do much about (i.e., advanced AMD) instead of taking a hard look at the statistics and asking what we could be doing to turn things around for our patients before ...
Amsterdam, the Netherlands – Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG; AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology, today announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Vesper Medical Inc., a US-based medical technology company that develops minimally-invasive peripheral vascular devices. Vesper Medical will further expand Philips’ portfolio of diagnostic and ...
According to the International Pharmacological Classification, drugs with more than 100 amino acid molecules belong to protein drugs, while drugs with less than 100 amino acid molecules belong to polypeptide drugs. ...
Hundreds of millions of Americans rely on life-saving and sustaining medications and medical devices every day. Ensuring the drugs and devices that they depend on are not contaminated is critical for the health of the country, and the responsibility of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). To address safety concerns in ...
Wiemer said that Menicon has volumes of research on things such as coatings for contact lenses and how devices interact with the human body. “These are the challenges for us,” Wiemer said. ...
Also, the procedural steps have now been refined with the aid of a dedicated device (LimFlow), so we can now safely and predictably perform the procedure within 2 hours, from puncture to closure. ...
It comprises of hospitals, medical devices, telemedicine, clinical trials, medical equipment, integration of health insurance and boom of medical tourism. ...
Auto-injectors, drug delivery medical devices that automatically administer an injectable dose for a patient, have grown in popularity over the past decade. ...