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Promotion of Research and Development and Innovation in the pharma-medtech sector

The Union government is taking significant steps to boost research and development (R&D) in the pharma-medtech sector through...

📅 July 20, 2023

Telangana launches Project Tej

The Government of Telangana have launched Project Tej, in association with a platform MedTechConnect, during the BioAsia 2020-Biotech...

📅 February 21, 2020

USFDA approves world’s first contact lens that automatically darkens when exposed to bright light

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved use of Acuvue Oasys Contact Lenses with Transitions Light...

📅 April 16, 2018

Noxeno: Nasal foreign body removal device launched

Government has launched Noxeno, a nasal foreign body removal device developed by start-up InnAccel Technologies Private Limited, Bangalore....

📅 December 4, 2017

11 Annual MedTech Summit of Biodesign Programme held in New Delhi

The XIth Annual MedTech Summit of Biodesign Programme was held in New Delhi. It was inaugurated by Minister...

📅 December 4, 2017

Scientists develop smart bandage to promote better, faster healing

Scientists from US have developed a smart bandage that can precisely control dose and delivery schedule of medication...

📅 October 7, 2017

Versius: world’s smallest surgical robot developed by UK scientists

Scientists in the United Kingdom (UK) have developed the world’s smallest surgical robot called Versius. It was developed...

📅 August 21, 2017

Scientists develop injectable tissue bandage to repair hearts

Scientists from the University of Toronto, Canada have developed an injectable tissue bandage dubbed as AngioChip, smaller than...

📅 August 16, 2017

Doctors from Netherlands perform brain implant for the first time in history

Doctors from Netherlands have performed the first-ever brain implant on a 58-year-old woman paralysed by Lou Gehrig’s disease...

📅 November 17, 2016

NASA develops electroactive bandage to speed up wound healing

The NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) has developed a new high-tech electroactive bandage that uses electricity to...

📅 October 12, 2016

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