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Posts Tagged ‘Medical Devices’
UK and SA Join Forces
Earlier this week, the United Kingdom hosted an official state visit by President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa, the first such visit […]
Bioengineering Can Do It!
Ralph Weissleder (seen right, © Wikipedia), who is a professor of systems biology at Harvard and a specialist in interventional radiology, […]
Machines that Mimic Human Creativity
Each Friday morning for the past eleven years I have woken up, climbed out of bed, and had in mind […]
Invention and Entrepreneurship
David Albert is the founder and chief medical officer of AliveCor, a ten-year-old company whose vision is “to be the 24/7 virtual […]
An Icon Bids Adieu
In 1985, Dr Jay Stein and his good friend David Ellenbogen teamed up to co-found Hologic with 12 employees and the intention […]
Learning from Past Mistakes
Almost 25 years ago, in 1998, the FDA approved computer-aided detection (CAD) tools as an adjunct to mammography. This was before the […]
Angels in the Crowd
When an entrepreneur has a novel idea for a medical device, her biggest challenge will be to secure the necessary […]
Turning Discovery into Health
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has its origins in a one-room laboratory in New York City in 1887 and […]
Cape Town Company Develops Covid-19 Test Kit
Five years ago, CapeRay joined a consortium of local manufacturers to establish a not-for-profit company called the Western Cape Medical Devices […]