A roundup of recent medtech strategic alliances, mergers & acquisitions and financings.

The burgeoning field of nanotechnology is creating hope as well as anxiety in the healthcare industry as researchers look for the best way to use the technology and the FDA grapples to create a policy for regulating products that incorporate the futuristic micro-miniature science. In health care, early focus has been on infection control products.

Wound Care. AcryMed has developed a semi-synthetic hydratable polymer technology designed to perform well over a wide spectrum of wound conditions. AcryMed has a dressing for full-thickness, heavily draining wounds, a moisture-retaining sheet dressing to cover a wound until healing is complete and a gel used to moisturize abrasions or scabs.