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Mercy Medical Center in Des Moines, Iowa, USA, is replacing its standard-issue hospital gowns with less revealing versions.
A patented advanced wound care dressing from Comvita is reported to be the first honey-based product for the management of wounds and burns to receive marketing clearance from the US Food and Drug Adm
Professor Martin Bide of the University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island, USA, described a study to synthesize and characterize in vitro novel nanofibre materials containing biologically active
An unloading knee brace is outlined in US Patent 7 198 610 by Ossur.
Batteries and flashlights supplier Energizer Holdings is to acquire Playtex Products for US$1.2 billion in cash. Including the assumption of debt, the transaction value totals US$1.9 billion.
The social stigma attached to urinary incontinence together with the side effects of some existing treatments is restraining market expansion, according to market analyst Frost & Sullivan.
For A$6 million (US$5.1 million), New Zealand natural health company Comvita has acquired Australia-based wound care specialist Medihoney.
Holding company Jacob Holm & Sons STA has been renamed Vernal.
Opening the plenary session of Medtex07, Professor Martin King of the College of Textiles, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, described a new approach to designing filters
Medtex07, the fourth international conference and exhibition on healthcare and medical textiles held in Bolton, UK, attracted around 165 delegates from some 25 countries.
Fabrice Pirotte of Centexbel, Belgium, presented a new type of smart medical textile embedded with optical fibres for monitoring the vital parameters of anaesthetized or sedated patients undergoing ma
Alltracel Pharmaceuticals subsidiary Nanopeutics, which is dedicated to the commercialization of Nanospider technology for the global wound care market, has signed a licensing agreement with HemCon Me
Stephanie Houis of the Institut fur Textiltechnik der RWTH Aachen (ITA), Aachen, Germany, reported the application of polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) as a biomaterial in medical textiles.
Strandberg Engineering Laboratories has developed a portable moisture meter to measure the moisture content of fabric, nonwovens, carpet, yarn and raw stock across the full moisture spectrum from bone
A disposable garment comprising a nonwoven backsheet formed by melt-blowing has been developed by Procter & Gamble.
A low-profile, high-stretch, low-dilation prosthetic device is disclosed in US Patent 7 198 638 by the SciMed division of Boston Scientific.
Frost & Sullivan has awarded the 2007 European Growth Strategy Leadership of the Year Award in the surgical drapes and gowns market to Germany's Paul Hartmann in recognition of the company's strat
Uluru has entered into a co-development agreement with ImmuneRegen BioSciences to evaluate the wound healing potential of a combination of Uluru's hydrogel nanoparticle wound dressing and ImmuneRegen'
Yimin Qin of the Biochemical Materials Research and Development Center, Jiaxing College, Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province, China, discussed the antimicrobial properties of silver-containing chitosan fibres.
At a meeting in Lucerne, Vicky Sung learned that Swiss textile machinery builders will emphasize savings in energy consumption protection of the environment and cost-savings through reduced maintenanc
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