Medical device packaging machinery company shawpak has announced the launch of its newly developed LT range, a line of linear thermoforming machines engineered to deliver precision, flexibility and performance for medical device packaging according to the company. Designed, manufactured and built in
Leading Japanese medical device company Japan Lifeline Co. Ltd (JLL), a specialist in cardiology and cardiovascular surgery fields, has appointed Device Technologies as its exclusive distributor in Australia and New Zealand. Through the agreement, Device Technologies will leverage its presence, esta
Medtronic has concluded the UK leg of its European ACM2U Truck Roadshow, bringing ‘cutting-edge’ medical technologies directly to clinicians in Aberdeen, Liverpool and Cardiff and showcasing the future of clinical innovation. The mobile innovation hub offered immersive, hands-on training to hundreds
APIS Assay Technologies, a UK-based company specialising in molecular diagnostics, has announced that the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Breakthrough Device Designation for the company’s APIS DPYD HT qPCR Kit (IVD), an adv
CustoMED has announced the successful completion of its seed round, bringing total funding to 6 million USD. The company will use the funding to scale its cloud-based platform, which combines artificial intelligence and automation with 3D printing to generate surgical tools and implants directly fro
United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (ULTH) has equipped its three Community Diagnostics Centres (CDCs) in Lincoln, Skegness, and Grantham with the latest CT and ultrasound technology from Canon Medical Systems, as part of an initiative to bring diagnostic services closer to patients and
The Freeman Hospital in Newcastle has successfully implanted Esprit BTK Everolimus Eluting Resorbable Scaffold System (Esprit BTK System), a breakthrough innovation for people with peripheral artery disease (PAD) below the knee (BTK) from Abbott. In the UK, one in five adults over 60 live with some
Surgical robotics company CMR Surgical has announced it is an early adopter of NVIDIA IGX Thor as it evaluates its integration into the Versius Surgical Robotic System. IGX Thor is NVIDIA’s latest and most powerful platform designed for physical AI and robotics, delivering up to 5,581 FP4 TFLOPS of
Afon Technology Ltd, a company based in Monmouthshire, Wales, is finalising a manufacturing agreement with Sony UK Technology Centre (TEC) Limited to produce its Glucowear device. According to Afon, Glucowear is the world’s first non-invasive, real-time wearable blood glucose indicator and is design
Ergéa UK joined clinical leaders from Somerset NHS Foundation Trust and Actiform at the ground-breaking ceremony for the new Bridgwater Community Diagnostic Centre. The project recently received conditional planning approval, paving the way for the new facility to welcome its first patients in early
Propel Healthtech West Yorkshire is calling on innovators with healthtech solutions to apply for its accelerator programme. The programme is free for successful applicants and provides enhanced business support, regulatory guidance, NHS networking and scaled growth advice. The accelerator has recen
Orchestra BioMed Holdings has announced the first patient enrolments in the Virtue SAB in the Treatment of Coronary ISR Trial, the Company’s U.S. IDE pivotal trial comparing its highly differentiated Virtue Sirolimus AngioInfusion Balloon (“Virtue SAB”) to the AGENT paclitaxel-coated balloon, curren
