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The persistence of demand for cosmetic procedures
The recession pinch on out-of-pocket surgery, most prevalent of which is cosmetic surgery, was a momentary pause in a market with persistent demand. The global market for cosmetic procedures is growing...
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Where will medicine be 20 years from now?
My answer (edited) from this question on Quora. I can speculate on this from the perspective of clinical practice and medical technology, but it should be first noted that another, important...
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Growth versus volume in medtech
One of the more interesting aspects of well-established markets that have significant volume in medical technology product sales is that the revenue and the caseload are sufficient to drive fairly a...
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The Staying Power of Spine Surgery Markets
While medtech over the past five years has seen continued pressure on prices, increased oversight on physician-manufacturer relationships, reduced med/surg procedure volumes, continued regulatory...
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Shifting demand, sales in aesthetics and reconstructive products markets
Data from our report, “Global Markets for Products and Technologies in Aesthetic and Reconstructive Surgery, 2013-2018″, illustrates the changing demand for different procedures in aesthetics and...
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Reconstructive surgery is increasingly aesthetic
Reconstructive surgery is the subset of “plastic” surgery focused on correcting the anatomy, aesthetics, or both, for patients who have been treated for disease or trauma, which sets it apart from...
View ArticleTechnologies at Medtech Startups, May 2014
Below is a list of the new medical technologies under development at startups we identified in May 2014 and added to the Medtech Startups Database. Patient positioning system for use in hip replacement...
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Cosmetic surgery dominated by lipoplasty, breast augmentation
By comparison to reconstructive surgery, which is overwhelmingly dominated by one type (reconstruction associated with tumor removal), the global distribution of cosmetic surgery procedures is very...
View ArticleMedtech fundings for June 2014
Fundings in medical technology for the month of June totaled $445 million, led by fundings of Benvenue Medical ($64 million) and InSightec ($50 million). Below are the top fundings in the month....
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And, then, Medtronic bought in to wound care
With Medtronic’s pending $42.9 billion purchase of Covidien, the company now has bought itself a seat at the global wound management table. No, this is not a “current” concern for other active wound...
View ArticleMedical technologies and recently identified startups (June 2014)
New medical technologies under development at recently identified startups span ophthalmology, gastroenterology, cardiology, spine surgery, orthopedics, patient monitoring and surgical instrumentation....
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Wound market CAGRs by segment and region, worldwide
Gauze dressings, bioengineered skin, alginates, negative pressure devices, cellular growth factors, hydrogels, antimicrobial dressings — all of these products (and more) represent the practice of wound...
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Sealants, Glues, Hemostats, Anti-Adhesion: An Evolved Market
In a forthcoming report on advanced technologies associated with the acute phase of wound management — specifically, hemostasis, closure and sealing — MedMarket Diligence will be revealing the state of...
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Wound technologies being adopted at varying rates globally
The success of specific wound management products in the market ensues from their ability to produce clinical outcome in environments where there are clinical, economic and other incentives for that...
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Effective technologies for wound hemostasis, sealing and closure
See the pending 2014 Report #S192, “Worldwide Surgical Sealants, Glues, Wound Closure and Anti-Adhesion Markets, 2013-2020″. Tourniquet, pressure and sutures have been used for controlling excessive...
View ArticleNew Technologies Under Development at Medtech Startups, August 2014
Below is a list of the technologies under development at newly identified medtech startups and included in the Medtech Startups Database. Technology for the repair of rotator cuff tears. Technologies...
View ArticleNew Medical Technologies at Startups, September 2014
Below is a list of new technologies under development at medtech startups recently identified and included in the Medtech Startups Database: Robotics for ophthalmic surgery. Dynamic force generation...
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The relentless proliferation of wound closure technologies
Sutures are not dead. They cling to the wound closure market as tenaciously as, well, non-resorbable sutures. Though the mainstay in the management of acute and traumatic surgical wounds for literally...
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Surgical Sealants and Glues in Wound Closure
Wound closure is a critical element of the overall wound management process. Indeed it is the most critical step in the sense that, if not accomplished promptly and effectively, can result in adverse...
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Rising and fading technologies in the global market for wound closure
Technologies emerge, gain clinical acceptance, grow in caseload and become the standard of care. Then new technologies emerge, developed to improve on or eclipse established technologies. They gain...
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