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INSIDER: Electronics & Computers

Equipped with a color 3D camera, an inertial measurement sensor, and its own on-board computer, a newly improved robotic cane could offer blind and visually impaired users...

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Blog: Medical

Continued innovation is at the heart of the medical device industry, with new technology supporting critical outcomes such as earlier...

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INSIDER: Medical

Smartwatches and other wearable devices may be used to sense illness, dehydration, and even changes to the red blood cell count, according to biomedical engineers and...

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INSIDER: Design

A three-layered face mask contains a copper-infused nano-coated fabric, a sustainable bamboo fabric and an ePTFE (a biomaterial) filter. The Hygenmask lacks ear loops, instead using...

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INSIDER: AR/AI

Researchers have developed an online tool to help medical staff quickly determine which COVID-19 patients will need help breathing with a ventilator. The tool, developed through...

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INSIDER: Energy

Scientists have developed a soft and stretchable battery that is powered by human perspiration. The prototype battery consists of printed silver flake electrodes that generate electricity in the...

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Features: Design
Unique device identifiers, or UDIs, enable better reporting, reviewing, and analyzing of adverse events.
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Technology Leaders: Medical
Through better detection, digital mammography can significantly improve radiology outcomes.
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Technology Leaders: Energy
Glucometer designs available on the market today are costly, large, and power inefficient. See how GreenPAK offers an upgrade.
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Features: Test & Measurement
The advent of automatic drug-delivery devices has empowered patients to take their treatments in their own hands.
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Technology Leaders: Design
Small medical electronics are at the forefront of a new round of technology trends involving printed circuit board (PCB) assembly and manufacturing.
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Special Reports: Propulsion
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Medical Robotics - September 2021

Self-propelled nanobots that deliver drugs inside the human body...novel sensors that improve the safety and precision of industrial robots...a dynamic hydrogel material that makes building soft robotic...

R&D: Communications
Researchers are creating new tools for a method called optogenetics, which shines light at specific neurons in the brain to excite or suppress activity.
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Global Innovations: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Scientists have developed a rapid, highly accurate test to detect antibodies against the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 in human serum.
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Features: Wearables
See what's happening at the Designing Biosensors for Medical Wearables Conference.
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Products: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Fluid-dispensing systems, a micro-dosing pump, solenoid valves, and more.
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R&D: Sensors/Data Acquisition
To make ultraviolet (UV)-detecting wearables, scientists have created a new type of light sensor that is both flexible and highly sensitive.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The system promotes myocardial regeneration after a cardiac event.
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R&D: Medical
A coating can be applied to endotracheal tubes and release antimicrobial peptides that target infectious bacteria with specificity.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The device combines near infrared light, time resolved spectroscopy, and diffuse correlation spectroscopy.
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From the Editor: Manufacturing & Prototyping
New data shows that during the pandemic, the medtech industry created more, better-paying jobs than the manufacturing sector overall.
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R&D: Design
The cardiac pacemaker of the future could be powered by the heart itself.
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Briefs: Test & Measurement
The patch uses ultrasound to monitor blood flow to organs.
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Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
A smart function kit, thermoelectric coolers, positioning stages, and more.
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Briefs: Regulations/Standards
Deadlines are approaching for compliance.
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Products: Test & Measurement
An evaluation kit form Sensirion enables ventilator manufacturers to take proximal measurements of respiratory gas rates.
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Trivia: Medical

What well-known fictional device is now being developed as a real medical device?

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Features: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Rodd Turnquist tells Medical Design Briefs how to select the best pumps for medical devices and accelerating time to market.
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Ask the Expert

John Chandler on Achieving Quality Motion Control
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FAULHABER MICROMO brings together the highest quality motion technologies and value-added services, together with global engineering, sourcing, and manufacturing, to deliver top quality micro motion solutions. With 34 years’ experience, John Chandler injects a key engineering perspective into all new projects and enjoys working closely with OEM customers to bring exciting new technologies to market.

Inside Story

Inside Story: Establishing Safe EO Sterilization for Medical Devices
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To find out more about the expertise required to establish a safe and effective EO Sterilization for medical devices, MDB recently spoke with Elizabeth Sydnor, director of microbiology for Eurofins Medical Device Testing (Lancaster, PA).

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