"MEDICAL DESIGNWORLD" FROM ADVANSTAR COMMUNICATIONS.Advanstar Communications (Cleveland, OH), now a unit of DLJ Merchant Banking Partners DLJ Merchant Banking Partners (DLJMB) is a LBO-focused private equity firm of Credit Suisse. DLJMB has offices in New York, London and Los Angeles. External links
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of ), will begin the publication of Medical Design-World (Edison, NJ) magazine with a September/October issue. To be published six times a year, it will have a controlled circulation of 35,000, with distribution in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Europe, Asia and Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. . The magazine is targeted to medical design engineers, engineering managers, researchers and developers, and purchasing managers A Purchasing Manager is an employee within a company, business or other organization who is responsible at some level for buying or approving the acquisition of goods and services needed by the company. involved in the design and development of medical devices and diagnostics throughout the world. The new tabloid publication "serves the worldwide medical device and diagnostic industry with special emphasis on emerging markets," Advanstar said. Taglined "device and diagnostic technology," the magazine's mission is to offer coverage of the industry with reports from around the world on how new technologies and products are being applied in designs for medical device and diagnostic products. It covers such topics as welding and machining, molding, embedded systems Embedded systems Computer systems that cannot be programmed by the user because they are preprogrammed for a specific task and are buried within the equipment they serve. , microelectronics, sensors, smart materials, tissue engineering, drug delivery and wireless technology. The first issue will carry features on sensors, packaging materials and applications, as well as regular columns on standards, patents, recalls, design ideas, new products and global news. Advanstar said the launch is especially appropriate because "the tools available and the regulatory environment in which they are used varies from region to region." An accompanying Web site (medical designworld.com) will be launched in conjunction with the magazine. Advanstar also publishes Medical Device Technology for the Euroepan market. |
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