Medtech
By Health Tech World’s Arab Health correspondent Julia Price.
Alder Hey and Needlesmart have partnered up to try and reduce the 100,000 needlestick injuries to NHS workers in the UK each year. In a recent survey, it was reported that 94 per cent of practising surgeons in the UK have either been personally affected by a needlestick injury (NSI) or have seen a colleague [...]
Lightpoint has created a surgical probe that could quickly and accurately detect cancer in real-time in the operating room. SENSEI is an advanced guidance system designed for intracavity radio-guided surgery. The system's miniaturized gamma probe enables unprecedented dexterity and anatomic reach, expanding the field of view and enabling the quick localization of radioactive hotspots. Joanne [...]
A UK-made medical device that has transformed regional anaesthesia into a single operator procedure will be demonstrated live at Arab Health 2022. Health Tech World’s Arab Health correspondent Julia Price speaks with Dr Fawzy, who will demonstrate the device. SAFIRA has been developed by medical device company Medovate in collaboration with clinicians from the UK’s [...]
New orthopaedic implant devices that promote faster healing could reduce the strain on the NHS, researchers from Loughborough University have found. The study, led by Dr Carmen Torres-Sanchez, a reader in multifunctional materials manufacturing, tested implant designs currently in use and compared them to novel designs to better understand the structures bone-building cells favour. Dr Torres-Sanchez [...]
A 57-year-old patient with terminal heart disease has become the first person in the world to receive a heart transplant from a genetically-modified pig, and is still doing well three days later. The organ transplant demonstrated for the first time that a genetically-modified animal heart can function as a human heart without immediate rejection by [...]
Researchers at the University of Southampton are trialling a novel implant device that may help people who are struggling to conceive or who have recurrent miscarriages. The small sensor device can monitor the environment inside the womb and detect any activity that could have an impact on embryo development. The device, which was invented at [...]
The UK Pavilion is heading back to Arab Health 2022, one of the world's leading platforms for international trade in the healthcare sector, representing a huge opportunity for HealthTech companies to showcase the very best of British. Health Tech World's Arab Health correspondent Julia Price speaks with this year's UK Pavilion organiser. Technology and innovation [...]
University of Missouri engineers have designed a prototype novel blood pressure monitoring device that could combat 'white coat syndrome.' The researchers are customising a commercial finger clip device to provide a rapid, non-invasive way for measuring and continually monitoring blood pressure, heart rate, blood oxygen saturation, body temperature and respiratory rate. Richard Byfield, a mechanical and [...]
Scarborough Hull York Pathology Service will deploy a single laboratory information management system to consolidate the collaborative relationship between its laboratories. The service, which is one of 29 pathology networks being set up through a national programme to drive efficiency and quality, signed a deal with CliniSys for its WinPath Enterprise. Programme director Dave Oglesby [...]
