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New data suggest serious home oxygen fire incidents are not being identified by EU Medical Device Vigilance System - inconsistent reporting processes may be putting patients at risk across the continent.   LONDON (26 May 2022) - Patient safety across Europe may be compromised due to decisions over fire safety...

West Midlands Mayor Andy Street has officially opened two new research and education facilities in Birmingham. Historic, family-owned Birmingham company Salts Healthcare has invested over £2M in the Salts Academy – a new education venue for health care professionals, and the Central Skin Sciences Institute, an independent skin research facility,...

Hospitals and other in-patient facilities using medical device alarms to alert medical staff to serious changes in a patient's condition, are increasingly finding nursing and other medical staff are failing to respond to critical equipment alarms, leading to patient's failing to get the prescribed amount of medication, deterioration of the...

Steve Thomason from competition sponsors Agora Marketing Communications, presented the £100 Amazon Vouchers to Max for successfully visiting each of the 32 exhibitors at the recent Medilink Midlands Innovation Day in Coventry.   “The exhibitor competition on the day was a great way of encouraging delegates to speak to everyone...

On 26th May 2022, the In Vitro Diagnostic Regulation (IVDR) (EU) 2017/746 will become applicable across all 27 EU Member States, marking the start of a five-year progressive roll-out for in vitro diagnostic medical devices on the EU market. Among its various changes to the EU regulatory framework are the...

Nottingham-based contract research organisation (CRO) Reach Separations has reported a significant increase in turnover in the wake of sustained demand across Europe for its chromatographic purification services. Reach Separations, which celebrates its tenth anniversary this year, specialises in chromatography for the analysis and purification of small molecules. When Reach Separations...

1 in 6 critical NHS supplies depend on China – costing £6.2 billion a year  Health chiefs warned that China could ‘switch off’ critical medical supplies NHS “dangerously reliant” on China as number of critical medical supplies purchased from Chinese government TREBLES in a year. 1 in 6 of critical...

To mark 20 years of product design and engineering, eg technology will be awarding between two and five complimentary engineering days to a selection of exciting start-ups in the fields of MedTech, BioTech, CleanTech, VetCare and AgriTech. Companies applying for the engineering days should explain their innovation or solution, highlight...

Life Science Group (LSG) is a privately owned biologicals manufacturing company producing contract manufacturing solutions for a variety of Life Science applications.   LSG has recently completed a move to new, larger facilities in Sandy, Bedfordshire. The facilities will offer expanded manufacturing capabilities available in new cleanroom suites equipped to...

Midlands life science event calls for shared vision for the region. On Thursday 12 May, over 170 delegates from across the Midlands came together for the region’s leading Life Sciences business event, Medilink Midlands Innovation Day. Medilink Midlands is the Midlands Life Science Industry organisation, focused on connectivity, collaboration, serving...