Addie Thomes

Neurosurgery refers to the surgical specialty that is concerned with the diagnosis and surgical treatment of the nervous system including brain, spinal cord, spine, and nerves. Neurosurgery is performed by a physician called neurosurgeon. Neurosurgeons provide operative and non-operative care depending upon the nature of the injury or illness. Neurosurgery helps to treat patients with brain tumor, head and spinal cord injury due to accidents, neck and back pain, and patients with abnormal spinal fluid circulation. The types of neurosurgery include endovascular neurosurgery,oncological neurosurgery, stereotactic neurosurgery, craniotomy, and neuro-endoscopy.

Diabetes is a disease characterized by high blood sugar level which is caused by improper functioning of the pancreas, the organ secreting insulin in the body. Diabetic nephropathy is a disease of the kidney glomerulus and happens to be one of the most significant complications in terms of mortality and morbidity for patients with diabetes.

North America is the largest market for scar treatment due to high disposable income in the country, which results in higher spending on personal care. The scar treatment market in Asia is expected to show high growth rates over the following five years. China and India are expected to be the fastest growing scar treatment markets in Asia. Some of the key driving forces for the scar treatment market in emerging markets are rise in disposable income, rising population, increasing prevalence of skin-related problems, growing focus on personal well being, and improving healthcare facilities in the region.

Risk analytics primarily help organizations in knowing the existence of risk within various business functions. It facilitates organizations to accurately define, recognize and manage their risk. Need for risk analytics is expected to increase across business processes. New developments in the risk analytics are transforming the market and enhancing its capability.

Mental health includes human psychological, emotional, and social well-being. Symptoms of mental health are divided into two groups: neurotic and psychotic. Neurotic symptoms include normal emotional experiences such as depression and anxiety or panic. Psychotic symptoms include hallucinations such as seeing, hearing, smelling, and feeling things that no one else senses.

The global supplements market is growing at a steady rate, majorly due to increasing consumer awareness about preventive healthcare. Mineral supplements are consumed in different forms, such as capsules, pills, powder, gel caps, granules, tablets, and liquid.

Touch screens in mobile devices are interface between users and devices that enable an easy interaction and visual experience. The use of touch screen technology in smartphone, tablets, laptops, mobile phones, and other portable information devices is gaining momentum. Touch screens enables the user to interact freely with the device without any hassles and with strong control. In the current scenario most of the touch screen based mobile devices are equipped with multi-touch technology. This is due to the ability of multi-touch screens of providing better functionalities (interaction ability) than single touch screens. Multi-touch enables the users with the ease of zooming, scrolling or rotating the screens according to the requirement.

Electronic prescribing or E-Prescribing (e-Rx) is electronic transmission of prescriptions from physician to pharmacists using computer and other mobile devices, such as cell phone and tablets. E-Prescribing system has replaced the phone, paper and fax based method of prescription.

Welding equipment market is segmented on the basis of technology, equipment, end-user industry and geography. Arc welding equipment and oxy-fuel welding and cutting are the two major segments of welding market on the basis of technology.

Growing health concerns and changing consumer lifestyle in favor of low-calorie foods are the major driving factors for the low-calorie food industry

CMOS (Complementary metal oxide semiconductor) image sensor is an opto-electronic device used for converting incident photon flux to digital signals. In recent years due to the growing demand for small high definition (HD) camcorders, there has been significant development in CMOS image sensors market. These sensors provide the benefit of low power consumption and high speed imaging capabilities. CMOS sensors are more capable processing at high speed compared to other sensors such as CCD (charged couple device).

The global home care chemicals market is mainly driven by factors such as mass urbanization, expanding middle class population, broadened product applications, growing demand for home care products in institutional and foodservice sectors and increasing awareness about health and hygiene. However, restraints faced by the global home care chemicals market are stringent government regulations and limitations on input costs and prices.

A healthcare information system is an extensive integrated system which captures, stores, manages and transmits information related to the health of individuals or the activities of organizations that work within the healthcare sector.

VoIP services are implemented using various protocols such as H.323, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), Inter Asterisk eXchange (IAX), Real Time Protocol (RTP), and Media Gateway Control Protocol (MGCP), among others. The major advantage of VoIP service is its price performance. VoIP is capable of providing rich media services and phone number portability. Additionally, VoIP is capable of offering features such as service mobility, integrated applications, user control interface and other rich features. VoIP services are easy to install, use and troubleshoot. The VoIP services finds its application across end-use segments such as residential (consumer market), mobile network providers and corporate.

The global stevia market was valued at US$ 347 million in 2014 and it is projected to expand at a healthy single-digit CAGR to reach a valuation of US$ 565.2 million by 2020. On the other hand, stevia consumption as an ingredient, which was valued at 5,100.6 tonnes in 2014 is forecasted to reach 8,506.9 tonnes by 2020.

Off-street parking solutions include access control, parking fee and revenue management, parking reservation management, valet parking management, parking guidance and slot management and parking enforcement management. These solutions are used by end-use sectors such as government and municipalities, airports, healthcare, corporate and commercial parks, commercial institutions and others.

Home infusion therapy is more cost-efficient than hospitalization. This is a major reason behind the increasing demand for home infusion therapy devices. Moreover, rising aging population, increasing the prevalence of chronic diseases, advancements in technology in infusion devices, and innovative applications of infusion devices in healthcare are boosting the growth of the home infusion therapy devices market.

North America, Latin America, Eastern Europe and Western Europe together contributed 50% of the global gas leak detector market value in year 2014. Whilst Asia Pacific excluding Japan contributed about 35%, making it the largest geographical segment in the global gas leak detector market. The Middle East and Africa gas leak detector market is projected to grow at promising CAGR of 6.27% during the forecast period.

The increasing prevalence of chronic pain and rising incidences of neurological diseases are some major drivers of the global neurostimulation devices market. Moreover, rising awareness about various neurological diseases, growing geriatric population, and increasing investments in research and development of innovative neurostimulation devices are also supporting the growth of this market. However, availability of alternative treatment therapies for neurological diseases and side-effects of neurostimulation therapy are some of the major restraints for the global neurostimulation devices market.

Stevia was introduced in the U.S. market in the 1980s as a non-caloric natural sweetener. The popularity of stevia in U.S. and other developed countries has grown steadily over the years, and rising obesity levels have augured well for generating its demand.Leading multinational brands, such as Coca-Cola and Pepsi have launched products containing stevia as an ingredient to appeal to health-conscious consumers.

Biopharmaceuticals are medicinal drugs which are produced through biotechnology methods such as recombinant DNA techniques, fermentation, hybridoma techniques, and purification processes. Biopharmaceutical production involves the usage of biological sources, either live organisms or their active components. They are made up of proteins and nucleic acids and target specific diseases and patients groups. Biopharmaceuticals are used in the treatment of various chronic diseases such as cardiovascular, metabolic, neurological, cancer, and other rare diseases for which there are no available treatments.

Strict mandates for automotive clearance, rising number of sensor manufacturers, and increasing performance due to advancement of latest technology are further expected to impel the global high-speed camera market during the forecast period. This market is projected to expand at single-digit growth rate during the forecast period. Long product replacement cycle and high cost of high speed camera are some of the factors which act as a restrain for the global high-speed camera market.

Asia Pacific is a major market for high-speed cameras and is set to grow at the fastest rate during the forecast period. China, Japan, and India are the main markets in this region. North America is the second-largest market for high-speed cameras, with the U.S. accounting for major market share.

Food allergens and inhaled allergens are subsegmented into animal origin and plant origin segments. Based on end users, the market is segmented into academic research institutes, diagnostic laboratories, hospitals, and others. The allergy diagnostics market based on products comprises assay kits and consumables, the latter of which is subsegmented into instruments, immunoassay analyzer, luminometers, and other instruments.