If rare earth metals become even more scarce than they are today, the medical device industry could be impacted in a significant way. But according to a paper published in PNAS (via Ars Technica), not much can be done to overcome a shortage ...
Tags: Rare Earth Metal, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
A new water-resistant material could provide another tool for medical device designers. Boston University and MIT researchers in the journal Nature describe a material with a novel surface structure that provides very high level of very ...
Tags: water-resistant material, medicine
When it comes to best places to work in the medical device industry, Stryker and Johnson & Johnson score well in online rankings. But are there even better medical device workplaces lurking out there? Stryker was the top pure-play medtech ...
According to federal officials, the budget sequester and the government shutdown have drained approximately $85 million from the FDA's financial reserves. These reserves came from user fees that pharmaceutical and medical device companies ...
A biomedical engineer is developing a clinical-grade open-source 12-lead ECG. The device includes support for Android devices and is designed to meet all relevant medical device manufacturing standards, like ISO 60601-1. According to early ...
Mobile cardiovascular health firm AliveCor (San Francisco, CA) has announced the debut of AliveInsights, a new service that enables patients to send ECG data generated by the company's heart monitors to cardiologists or cardiac technicians ...
Tags: ECG, Heart Monitors, Smartphone
Next-generation genetic sequencing, the idea of cheap and accessible testing, is one of the trendy areas in the medical device industry and a potential game-changer in the testing equipment sector. Just this week, GenapSys of Redwood ...
PMMI, The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies, which owns and produces the Pack Expo family of trade shows, reports exhibit space sales for Pack Expo International 2014 (Nov. 2–5, 2014; McCormick Place, Chicago) have ...
Tags: Processing Machinery, Packaging
For the medical device industry, lasers are an invaluable technology. With myriad uses ranging from eyesight improvement to imaging, medical lasers can be found in almost all hospitals in the United States and other developed countries. ...
Monarch Medical Technologies, a US-based medical technology company, has obtained ISO 13485:2003 certification for its quality management system from the independent certifying body, Nemko. As per the ISO 13485:2003 requirements of the ...
Aptiv Solutions, a US-based medical device and biopharmaceutical company, has introduced AptivInSite, a new adaptive monitoring methodology. Developed for medical device companies, AptivInSite helps in maximising trial efficiency while ...
Tags: Health, Medicine, biopharmaceutical
Specialty packaging producer UFP Technologies is all set to exhibit its packaging solutions at the OrthoTec 2013 taking place from 5-6 June in Winona Lake (Warsaw), Indiana. For the medical device industry, the company will introduce ...
ReSearch Pharmaceutical Services (RPS), a US-based contract research organization (CRO) and Asklep, a Japanese CRO, have formed a new Joint Venture Company (JVC) to deliver R&D outsourcing solutions in Japan to the medical device and ...
Tags: Health, Medicine, Medical Device Industry
CETRA Language Solutions, a provider of translation, website and software localisation services to the medical device industry, has launched a full suite of localisation services. The addition of website and software localisation services ...
AVX, a US-based manufacturer of advanced passive components and interconnect solutions for the medical device industry, has received ISO 13485:2003 certification for its high-reliability tantalum capacitor manufacturing facility in ...
Tags: medical device industry, medical device, medical industry