Healthineers collaboration aims to link antibodies to immunity
The effort has implications for international travel and allocating vaccines – but the precise quantitative tests necessary for this do not, as yet, exist.
Medtechs that book the most sales per employee face the greatest losses
Welcome to the calm before the Covid-19 storm.
Philips spends big in-house while Becton favours buying
The largest medtech companies have differing business development strategies, but tend to be on the same page on R&D spending.
Healthineers makes its ambition plain with $16.4bn Varian buy
Suddenly 2020’s medtech M&A landscape looks very different.
The FDA gets aggressive with Covid-19 antibody tests
Chembio’s antibody test is the first to have its authorisation revoked. It might not be the last.
Healthineers’ Covid-19 antibody test spikes an interest in vaccines
The German group has come late to antibody testing, but has punchy accuracy data and a possible means of neutralising some of the competition.
