Healthtechs

Por quê os laboratórios estão aumentando seus investimentos em fitoterápicos ?

Alvo de resistência e preconceito da classe médica no passado, por estar associado a tratamentos com chás e ervas, o segmento de medicamentos fitoterápicos está recebendo investimentos dos laboratórios nacionais e estrangeiros instalados no país. O Aché, uma das maiores farmacêuticas nacionais, vai lançar em abril um novo produto voltado para a área respiratória. A […]

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Three Central Questions About Medical Technologies

Every day my inbox gets filled with announcements for and invitations to attend all kinds of conferences. While many of them are of the traditional medical education sort, more and more I hear about meetings where new technologies and gadgetry in healthcare are the focus. And while the former feature healthcare professionals speaking medicalese from […]
Healthcare drew more angel investment than any other industry last year

Angel investors are flocking to healthcare. A new report shows that healthcare companies received a greater percentage (37 percent) of angel investment dollars than startups from any other industry in 2011. Within the healthcare sector, medical devices dominated angel investment. Sixty percent of healthcare investments went to medical devices and equipment, far exceeding pharmaceuticals, drugs and biotechnology, […]
Presidente da Aché, José Ricardo Mendes, revela os planos da empresa para o futuro!

“Queremos fornecer medicamentos para o mercado mundial” O engenheiro mecânico paulista José Ricardo Mendes da Silva ingressou há dez anos no laboratório brasileiro Aché, o quarto maior do País, com a missão de aumentar a rentabilidade e preparar sua entrada na bolsa de valores. Por Clayton NETZ e Marcio ORSOLINI “Um IPO do Aché vai […]
Health startups face off against social, music and news competitors at SXSW! Will some of them win ?

Health startups will be pitching their businesses to the Internet crowd next week at the SXSW Interactive Accelerator. Smartphone attachments, wireless platforms for teenagers and data-mining tools in the health space will be competing with other entrepreneurs focused on social media, mobile applications, entertainment, news, music and innovative web. The matchup starts Monday with 48 companies. Eighteen will be invited back on […]
Biolab, Cristália Eurofarma e Libbs se unem numa superfarmacêutica de medicamentos biológicos !

Está em negociação a criação de uma segunda joint venture envolvendo os laboratórios nacionais Biolab, Cristália, Eurofarma e Libbs, com apoio financeiro do BNDES. O governo já está apoiando a criação da BioBrasil, empresa formada a partir da joint venture entre as farmacêuticas brasileiras Aché, EMS, União Química e a companhia Hypermarcas, conforme antecipou o Valor. […]
Can hackers help us to tackle healthcare challenges ?

Dr. Shaheed Merani had barely finished his morning coffee last Saturday, when the solution to a tech challenge that’s plagued his work as an Edmonton hospital resident was almost at the prototype stage. It was day one of HackingHealth, Canada’s first health-focused hackathon. Nearly 70 health professionals like Dr. Merani had flown in to Montreal from across […]