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Lord Darzi Promotes UK Healthcare Innovation Across Middle East
25/01/2010
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...specialists across the globe and in the last year has helped almost 24,000 companies achieve international success.
Head of Life Sciences at UKTI, Jane Grady, said:
"UK Trade & Investment is at Arab Health to showcase the UK Life Sciences sector. The UK is a world leader in innovation with its supportive regulatory environment, outstanding R&D and academic excellence. Our presence here is increased this year due to additional Government funding and support, which means we are able to do even more to promote UK companies and promote UK innovation and expertise."
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Among the innovative products on display at Arab Health 2010 is a multi-award winning, first-to-market prosthetic device with five individually powered digits designed by Touch Bionics, headquartered in Livingston, Scotland. The innovative device was acknowledged by, among others, the prestigious US-based TIME magazine in 2008 as one of the key inventions of the year. The company are using Arab Health to launch its ProDigits partial hand prosthetic solution.
The first portable home haemodialysis machine was also exclusively unveiled by Lord Darzi. Marketed by Kimal plc, headquartered in Uxbridge, the NxStage System One home haemodialysis machine reduces the need for patients to travel to and from hospital-based renal centres to receive 'End Stage Renal Disease' treatment. In the Middle East, there are presently over 100,000 patients requiring haemodialysis treatment, including over 1,900 in the UAE alone. The NxStage System One will reduce disruption to patients' normal life, free up hospital beds and medical staff time and also give patients the option to dialyse at a convenient time in their own home.
Also on display is the world's first fully portable video laryngoscope, designed by Edinburgh's Aircraft Medical Limited, a specialist in the global anaesthesia and critical care device markets. The device, a patented McGRATH® Series... continued on page three >
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