Minimally invasive medical device specialist Angiodynamics (Albany, NY) has announced its intention to cut as many as 100 of its workers, representing nearly 8% of its workforce of approximately 1330. The move is part of what the firm terms ...
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 ...
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Global Vision, the industry leader in the development of innovative proofreading technologies, today announced the immediate availability of ScanBook, a new high-speed booklet scanner designed for the medical device and pharmaceutical ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
First it was leaky battery damage. Now it is pressure sensor calibration drift. For the second time this year, the FDA has classified a Hospira recall of its GemStar Infusion System as Class I, which means there is potential for ...
Filtration Group has added surgical smoke evacuation specialist Buffalo Filter to its growing portfolio of companies. Founded in 1991 and based in Lancaster, New York, Buffalo Filter is a medical device manufacturer and supplier of surgical ...
Sumitomo Heavy Industries has obtained the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance of its Proton Therapy System, a form of radiation therapy, which employs proton beams to kill cancer cells with better dose distribution in ...
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Bruin Biometrics has reported results from the two Institutional Review Board-approved clinical trials conducted with its SEM Scanner to detect pressure ulcers. SEM Scanner is a class IIA medical device developed by Bruin Biometrics in ...
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Echo Therapeutics, a medical device company, has reported positive results from its clinical trial of the Symphony CGM wireless continuous glucose monitoring system in surgical patients in hospital critical care units. Echo Therapeutics ...
Think human relations can be tricky? Try human and robot relations. But that has not stopped European researchers from starting an initiative to take such collaboration even further in manufacturing settings—upping the automation ...
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Avalon Laboratories, LLC Avalon will showcase its capabilities to offer feature-rich single piece medical devices not currently available with extrusion technology in booth #204 at BIOMEDevice San Jose. Avalon will showcase its ...
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Resonetics Inc. Resonetics announces that Scott Davis has joined the company as Director, Quality Assurance and Regulatory Affairs. Resonetics, a leading supplier of polymer laser micromachining services and systems for the life sciences ...
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration halted the selling of the 23andMe Saliva Collection Kit and Personal Genome Service -- a home DNA test. In a letter posted on its website, the FDA alleged 23andMe was being sold without clearance or ...
Excelitas Technologies of Waltham, MA, USA, which provides customized optoelectronics to OEMs, has acquired Lumen Dynamics of Ontario, Canada, a privately held volume manufacturer of lamp- and LED-based UV curing and fluorescence ...
Tags: UV System, LED-based UV curing