Hints and tips:
Related Special Reports
...Smith & Nephew has warned that chip shortages are still hitting the medical device maker’s sales of surgical robotic technology and wound-protecting products, even as supply recovers at major chipmakers....
...Out of reach as the headset will be for most, it would be a bargain for some if it replaced the need for flight simulators or surgical tools costing more than $1mn, said Peggy Johnson, chief executive of...
...The demerger of a surgical products division with $9bn of annual revenue is hardly the most controversial parenting decision by the Minnesota-based industrial giant....
...Even companies able to make their products are struggling to secure glass vials to distribute them....
...This was the moment that led to the whole world getting neckache and ushered generations into surgical attachment to their phones....
...orthopaedic reconstruction, sports medicine and wound care....
...Strong sales of over-the-counter painkillers Tylenol and Motrin, upper respiratory product Zyrtec and mouthwash Listerine helped buoy results....
...“No one had thought that a low-end product like masks could become such a strategic resource that links to national security....
...The head of a children’s orthopaedic clinic, closed during the shutdown, sent respirators and staff to operate them....
...Big pharma has been increasingly turning to mergers and acquisitions in recent years to either sell non-core assets or buy innovative drugmakers as their own products are close to lose patent protection....
...It not only makes sensors for smartphones, but high-end professional cameras and surgical microscopes....
...Surgical robots succeed in trials A medical start-up based in Cambridge in the UK has claimed success in the first clinical trial of a new generation of surgical robots, reports our Science Editor Clive...
...Joe Walters, a fund manager at Royal London Asset Management, which owns shares in S&N, said the company needed to move away from lower growth products and increase sales in emerging markets....
...He said he hopes to “dramatically accelerate” product innovation in digital surgery at Johnson & Johnson....
...The combined company would boast nine drugs each generating more than $1bn in annual sales, as well as a pipeline of products in early development....
...Actually, maybe add the orthopaedic cost from hauling said rucksack around too? Not that Tesla hasn't been at this sort of thing before....
...In August 2017, the company acquired CellRight Technologies, a biotech company whose human tissue scaffolds are used in spine, trauma, general orthopaedic, foot and ankle, dental, and sports medicine surgical...
...● UBS upgraded Smith & Nephew to “buy” with a £15.50 target, largely on hopes that its Navio surgical robot will revive sales growth for the orthopaedic devices maker....
...Exoskeletons for factory workers DNA sequencing Brain implants Nanobots to kill off tumours Tests to stop antibiotic resistance 3D printing organs Personalised mental health treatment Apps to speed surgical...
...J&J still employs more than 1,000 people at its Lifescan Scotland site in Inverness, which makes blood glucose monitoring systems and other diabetes products....
...We have long believed in a fewer, better approach to the ads we place across our products.”...
...for Parkinson’s sufferers and surgical robots....
...“But if you look underneath, what is happening is that we’re getting out from this patent expiration and our growth products are fully offsetting it.”...
...The cuts equate to roughly 6 per cent of the company’s medical devices workforce, and will be heaviest in the orthopaedics division, which makes hip replacements, as well as its surgical and cardiovascular...
...In 1867, Sir Joseph had published a series of case studies showing that sterile surgical procedures would save countless lives....
International Edition