Medical Technology


Small Company Initial Public Offerings: June 1982

INC. MARKET INDEX vs. POPULAR AVERAGES S&P NASDAQ DJI 400 ASE Ind'ls INC. % change -2 -3 -5 -4 -5 June-J...  Read story

The Two Hundred Million Dollar Dash

The story of how a pharmaceutical start-up turned to technology to bring its drugs to market quicker.  Read story

Big Business Eyes EMR Industry

Corporations, such as Dell and GE, partner with small business pioneers to have a stake in the electronic medical records industry.  Read story

A Personal Search

Why do people start businesses? Sometimes for money, sometimes to find independence, but often because of something more deeply rooted. Catherine"Kye" And...  Read story

The Beat Goes On, With Their Device's Help

In a modest industrial park building just outside of Pittsburgh, Pa., a small company called Medrad Inc. is refining a heart device that could save many o...  Read story

Health Care Stocks: "90% Confusion And 10% Opportunity"

Choosing the right health care stocks;  Read story

House Calls

Can Buddy Systems Inc. convince doctors, insurers, and patients to accept its new home monitoring device?  Read story

Medical Marvel

Synthetic body parts. It may sound like the work of Dr. Frankenstein, but Chris Sakezles, president of Animal Replacement Technologies, has found a way to te...  Read story

National Insecurity

Reading the story about Mr. Kachajian's experiences with export controls ("Kachajian's Rebellion," October), I was not a bit surprised, because I have my ...  Read story

The State of Stem Cell Research

Californians are hoping that stem cell research will do for them what the invention of the car did for Michigan.  Read story

In the Global Village

New business discovers new drugs through an international network of botanists indigenous peoples.  Read story

How to Save on RD

A small manufacturer teamed up with a bigger player in its industry to develop a new group of products.  Read story

Sweet Dreams

Surgery patients may someday be able to receive their anesthetic orally, through a thimble-shaped lollipop tentatively named Anestapop. Targeted for chil...  Read story

Checking Data More Than Twice

Whether they are test-marketing a new fruit drink, beta-testing computer software, or running clinical trials on an antibiotic, companies share a common c...  Read story

An Investors Guide to This Year's Inc. 500

Which companies on the 2007 list are poised to hit it big? The money guys weigh in.  Read story

Fake Blood

Biopure Corp. is working on the purification of hemoglobin drawn from cows.  Read story

Venture Capital Investments Keep Healthy Pace

May 2004 --Venture capital investments have kept a healthy pace for the first three months of 2004, according to a recent Pricewaterhouse ...  Read story

Innovation: The Outer Limits

The hottest, most mind-boggling high-tech products are coming not only from corporate behemoths but also from start-ups you've never heard of.  Read story

Crusader of the Year

At 43, Dom Meffe Jr . has lived the life of several entrepreneurs--he owned (with his father) 13 Chuck E. Cheese's before turning 30, then...  Read story

The Privacy Time Bomb

You're sitting on a privacy time bomb. Here's how to defuse it.  Read story

Washington Is Telling Secrets

And some of those secrets are your competitors'. The Freedom of Information Act gives you access to information that can help your business.  Read story

Should I Expand into International Markets?

Patient Care Technologies Inc. (#203 on the 1998 Inc. 500 list), in Atlanta, has the hallmarks of a successful international player: an innovativ...  Read story

Expansion Dreams

Main Medical Inc. CEO John Tomayko's fund-raising goals are to raise $10 million to $15 million to support expansion and an acquisition. Experts weigh in.  Read story

Gimme Some Skin

A chemical company develops a new material which can be used for sports padding and prosthesis liner.  Read story

War on Drugs

Start-up helps businesses contain health-care costs.  Read story

Just a Little Bit Public

As the stock market sputters, private placements are on the rise.  Read story

Passions: Vernon LaVia, Bird Watcher

To call him avid would be an understatement. In the bird-watching world, where bragging rights belong to those with the longest lists of ...  Read story

If You Come, They Will Build It

Have a great product idea but lack the resources to develop it? Here's how inventors-for-hire can take your brilliant germ of an idea and transform it into a...  Read story

Tax Breaks For Angels

To foster technology transfer, states reward early-stage investors.  Read story

Bootstrapping 101: Get Your Suppliers to Finance You

Why not offer your key suppliers some upside?   Read story

The Inc. 100 Portfolio;

Dr. Robert Jarvik hardly seems to be writing a prescription for fast growth. His company's first product has been called dangerous, unreliable, and unethi...  Read story

Update: Crime And Punishment

Raphael Gregorian is hardly the portrait of a victorious man. He works out of a windowless basement office. His small company, which once had sales of a...  Read story

Insurance: Hindsight Advice on Key-Man Coverage

A senior manager offers some advice to companies weighing the pros and cons of key-man insurance.  Read story

Coverage, but at What Price?

THE OBAMA AGENDA, IN DETAIL Democrat Barack Obama's proposal is as at least as sweep...  Read story

Whatever Happened To The Class Of '83?

Led by Healthdyne (#5 this year), Consul (#6), and BRAE (#11), 27 of the 1983 INC. 100 companies graduated to the 1984 listing. Of those, 4 moved up in st...  Read story

Michael J. Fox to Speak at Biotech Confab

March 2, 2007 -- The Biotechnology Industry Organization, a non-profit association representing more than 1,100 biotechnology companies, ...  Read story

Innovation: CardioMEMS EndoSure Sensor

CardioMEMS creates body sensors that monitor cardiovascular health  Read story

MRI Designer Named Inventor of the Year

The developer of the Upright MRI was named the National Inventor of the Year by the Intellectual Property Owners Education Foundation, organizers said thi...  Read story

High Health Care Costs to Continue

Health insurance premiums are rising at four times the rate of inflation and will continue to soar over the next three years. Currently overall pre...  Read story

And Now For Something A Little Different

Among the great, gray masses of mutual funds that are listed in the newspaper every day, there are a few that might be considered the nonconformists of th...  Read story

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