Researchers at Empa in Switzerland, together with chemical company BASF, the Spiez Laboratory and the Technical University of Berlin, have developed coated fabrics that inhibit…
Latvian company PrintyMed is developing biocompatible artificial spider silk to create scaffolds that can be used for tissue engineering applications, such as three-dimensional heart valves,…
Texray has secured SEK45m (€3. 9m) in funding in an investment round led by Industrifonden and supported by private investors at Impilo.
Cardinal Health has announced the US launch of its SmartGown Edge breathable surgical gown with Assist instrument pockets, which are designed to provide surgical teams…
A barbed mesh for soft tissue closure and hernia repair without the need for sutures is disclosed by a researcher at Washington University, St Louis,…
An improved absorbent dressing for heavily exudating wounds has been developed by Essity Hygiene & Health.
At November’s Medica medical technology trade fair in Düsseldorf, Germany, the German Institutes of Textile and Fiber Research Denkendorf (DITF) exhibited a new device that…
A research team from Empa in Switzerland and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, are developing a wound dressing that uses “good”…
US-based diversified manufacturer Milliken & Co has rebranded its healthcare business, Milliken Healthcare Products, as Ovik Health, offering a range of wound and burn dressings,…