Welcome to the Seventh Issue of the Bang & Olufsen Medicom Newsletter!

We wish you a happy new year and look forward to cooperating with you in 2008!

In this edition, you can read about:

     . B&O Medicom initiates and sponsors conference
     . Asmair® scoops GOOD DESIGN award 2007
     . Helping Hand on National Gallery of Art, Design and Architecture of Norway
     . Next Generation of Asmair®
     . Meet us at PharmaPack (Feb. 6-7) and Drug Delivery Partnership (Jan. 22-23)
     . Change of electronic addresses 

Scroll down the page and learn more about the latest news from Bang & Olufsen Medicom.

Copenhagen Compliance & Concordance Conference (CCCC) 2008
B&O Medicom has initiated CCCC 2008 together with the University of Copenhagen and the Research Centre for Quality in Medicine Use, because we truly believe in the benefits of improving individual patient compliance to prescribed therapies and thereby providing a shortcut to better health.

CCCC 2008 gathers a number of leading experts active in the field of patient compliance and adherence including Dr. Brian Haynes, Professor of Clinical Epidemiology and Medicine, McMaster University, who will discuss the Cochrane review on adherence. The conference aims at discussing compliance and creating a profound insight in the subject through input from many different stakeholders, including researchers, practitioners, regulatory bodies, the pharmaceutical industry, as well as patients and their relatives. Thereby, we aim at creating a dedicated platform for intelligent compliance solutions for the future.

You can shortly read more and sign up for the conference on our web site.

Asmair®, B&O Medicom's next generation pressurised metered dose inhaler (pMDI), has received a highly recognised international design award, the American GOOD DESIGN award 2007. The awards programme is the world's oldest and most celebrated awards programme that bestows international recognition upon the best international designs.

Read more here.

The Helping Hand, B&O Medicom’s award winning tablet reminder device, has been on a tour in Europe with the exhibition Scandinavian Design beyond the Myth. After 4 years on the road and visits in 14 different cities, the exhibition is now coming to an end and the Helping Hand will be on display at the National Gallery of Art, Architecture and Design in Oslo, Norway.

Learn more here.
Learn more about the Helping Hand here.

Asmair®, B&O Medicom’s next generation pMDI actuator for asthma and COPD, is taken a step further. Offering force to fire reduction, robust dose counter with proprietary under counting prevention and outstanding customizability to a potential client’s needs even to meet the pharmaceutical performance of a client’s existing standard actuator.

Asmair® now also accommodates 10, 12 and 14 ml can sizes. Adhering to the voice of the customer, B&O Medicom presented a concept model featuring a detachable mouthpiece which was very positively received by the participants at DDL18 in Edinburgh, Scotland, on December 12-14, 2007, where we also presented results from our ongoing final verification testing. Asmair® has passed the acceptance criteria on the robustness parameters in terms of functional measurements of lifetime tests, transportation, cleaning and mechanical impact. Further pharmaceutical performance testing aiming to show equivalence between a standard pMDI actuator and Asmair® is ongoing and results are expected during Q1/08.

We look forward to meeting you again at our stand at the Respiratory Drug Delivery (RDD) Conference in Arizona, May 11-15, 2008, where we will update you on the performance results and on other scheduled platforms including a next generation Medicom BAI.

Learn more about our conference activities here.

We are looking forward to participating in PharmaPack in Paris on February 6-7, 2008. The conference gathers industry and scientific people working within the field of packaging and drug delivery devices, giving special attention to “How innovations in packaging and drug delivery packaging enhance health product safety".

At this occasion, we will present LEVA®, our recently launched auto injector platform that takes safety and ease of use to a higher level. We hope to see you at the stand A11 in the exhibition hall, where we will be happy to give you a presentation of LEVA® and our other injection solutions. Please contact Tanya Arp-Nielsen at taa@medicomnordic.com if you would like to set up a meeting at the tradeshow.

We are also exhibiting at the Drug Delivery Partnership (DDP) conference in San Diego on January 22-23 and we would be pleased to meet with clients and industry peers. Please contact Christian Husegaard at chg@medicomnordic.com in case a meeting is convenient at DDP.

Learn more about LEVA® here.
Download the animation and the product flyer.
Learn more about our conference activities.

As of January 2008, we establish an independent infrastructure platform and change our electronic addresses to medicomnordic.com, and our emails change accordingly. B&O Medicom continues unchanged on the basis of our heritage of innovation, unconventional thinking and user friendliness in all our designs of drug delivery solutions.

You may shortly find our corporate web site on: www.medicomnordic.com and you can contact us at medicom@medicomnordic.com 

Also, please note that we have changed our telephone numbers to the following:

Reception:    +45 70 301 600
Fax:             +45 70 301 700

Bang & Olufsen Medicom designs, develops and co-markets drug delivery solutions to increase patient compliance. As an award-winning supplier of medical devices, we aim at helping remind the patient when to take the medication and become more compliant by keeping track of the medication in general.

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