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Microneedle Array for Universal Vaccine Delivery Developed
Microneedle arrays (MNAs) are a promising way of delivering vaccines into the body. They are nearly pain-free and can penetrate a substantial portion of the skin, which is considered an excellent place to inject vaccines because of the skin’s s...
Source: Medgadget - April 22, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Medicine Public Health Source Type: blogs

8-Puff Dry-Powder Inhaler Wins Red Dot Product Design Award
Hovione Technology’s 8Shot Dry Powder Inhaler (DPI) has earned the Red Dot 2020 Product Design Award in the Healthcare Daily Living AIDS category. João Ventura Fernandes, PhD, director of technology development and licensing for Hovione Technology Ltd., told MD+DI that 8Shot “was developed to be the world’s first 8-dose, factory-filled dry powder inhaler device enabling effective and safe drug delivery to the lungs of a range of drugs expected to be developed and reach the market during the next years." It is targeted for "delivery of new pharmaceutical c...
Source: MDDI - April 21, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Daphne Allen Tags: Design Source Type: news

Medgadget Sci-Fi Contest 2017: Meet The Winning Stories
Ladies and Gentlemen, this is the moment you have all been waiting for – the day that the winners of the Medgadget Medical Sci-Fi Competition are announced and their fantastic stories are published! First, we would like to thank Eko Devices, th...
Source: Medgadget - December 15, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Exclusive Source Type: blogs

Interview with Harshal Shah, Head of Oncology Drug Delivery at Cambridge Consultants
Thanks to the ongoing advancements in standards of care and gradual improvements in more targeted therapeutics, some argue that cancer is slowly turning into a chronic disease, and with it bringing about a host of new challenges for oncology care. Th...
Source: Medgadget - May 22, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Mohammad Saleh Tags: Exclusive Oncology Source Type: blogs

Pfizer-Allergan deal a prelude to splitting company
(Reuters) — A Pfizer (NYSE:PFE) merger with Ireland-based Allergan (NYSE: AGN), in addition to providing tax benefits, would bolster the U.S. drugmaker’s growth prospects should it decide to sell or spin off its portfolio of products that have gone off patent. Many Wall Street analysts believe Pfizer will decide to split late next year, after compiling 3 years of financial data treating its “established products” division, which sells generic medicines, and its “innovative” patent-protected medicines unit, as if they were separate companies. Such a split would dramatically boost the compan...
Source: Mass Device - November 6, 2015 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Brad Perriello Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions Pharmaceuticals Allergan Inc. Pfizer Inc. Source Type: news