Healthcare

As with every cardiology tradeshow today, the show floor of the 2014 European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Congress in Barcelona (Aug. 30-Sept. 3) reserved quite a significant presence for medical imaging. This comes as no surprise, since imaging and informatics continues to reaffirm their role as an important driving force for advancing several are...

Hantavirus is a disease that is prevalent in Europe and has shown to have almost fifty percent mortality rate in the US. The increased mortality rate is due to inaccesibility to diagnostic tests and the mis-diagnosis of the disease. This report offers revenue forecasts for the Hantavirus diagnostic market for each of the following regions European,...

This study investigates the global stem cell market for the period 2013 to 2018. The geographic regions covered in the study are the North America, Europe and APAC, followed by a detailed Asia Pacific Region Analysis, which covers countries such as India, Australia, Thailand, Singapore, South Korea, Malaysia and Japan. The stem cell market is cover...

The global wound care market is at a growth stage. It is driven by the increasingly aging population as well as rising rates of diabetes and obesity. These chronic health problems lead to diabetic ulcers, venous leg ulcers, and major surgeries requiring treatment solutions, thereby driving the usage of the wound care products, which increases the r...

This issue of Vital Signs, released on October 3, 2014, discusses Merck KGaAs acquisition of Sigma-Aldrich, highlights from the 2014 AACC Meeting, Abbotts CE Mark for FreeStyle® Libre, laboratory developed test (LDT) regulations, and the sale of Fortis Healthcares Singapore subsidiary, RadLink-Asia Pte Ltd, and its arm, RadLink Singapore.

Electronic cigarettes and vaping products have taken the tobacco industry by storm. Multiple public reports have e-cigarettes surpassing traditional tobacco sales within the next six to ten years if growth rates continue to climb. Due to the lack of Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulation, e-cigarette year-over-year growth declined from 2010-...

The Personal Emergency Response Systems (PERS) market in 2013 is at a period of transition as consumer health technologies are increasing in availability and lowering price points for direct-to-consumer monitoring care. The mobile trend of convergence in remote care continues to expand offerings, with mPERS launches from Tier 1 vendors on down. We ...

The increasing life science research activities across drug discovery applications have driven the need for automated products in liquid handling. How far the automated segments are going to replace the manual instruments is analyzed in this research. This study provides the market overview, market engineering measurements, revenue forecasts, compa...

The wearables market is currently a center of hype and interest across the varied landscape of consumers, vendors, providers, payers, and other stakeholders interested in the broader digital health market. Companies are trying to better understand consumer habits, exploring device monetization outside of the early adopting fitness crowd, increasing...