2020 Product Buyer's Guide

In our 2020 Product Buyer's Guide, you'll find a list of manufacturers in more than a dozen medical-device areas.

A Practical Guide to Semiconductor and System Design Capabilities for the Healthcare Industry

Learn about the semiconductor products and capabilities on the market today ideally suited for healthcare devices.

Flexible Sensor Offers Less Hysteresis

Flexible TRACE sensor patches can be placed on the skin to measure blood flow in superficial arteries.

3D Printed Biomimetic Tongue Surface

Using 3D printers, scientists have created synthetic soft surfaces with tongue-like textures.

Product Focus

Auto-injectors, transmitters, laser scanners, and more.

Plant-Based Thermotherapy Patch

A biodegradable, transparent, flexible and fast-acting thermo-therapy patch from plant leaves is compatible with flexible electronic applications.

Essentials of PCBA Cleaning for Wearables

It is essential to incorporate PCBA cleaning into the planning and production of wearables.

From the Editor - Study Predicts Gradual Path to Recovery for Medtech Industry

A new report indicates how the medtech industry will emerge from the coronavirus pandemic.

New Products and Services

Magnetic angle sensors, heat-staking platforms, regulatory software, and more.

Wearable Pressure-Sensitive Devices

A gelatin-based hydrogel addresses the problems presented in constructing wearable pressure-sensitive sensors.

Microrobot Can Flip Through Live Colon

The rectangular robot is as tiny as a few human hairs.

Diamond-Studded Silk Wound Dressing Detects Infection and Improves Healing

Smart dressings made of silk and nanodiamonds effectively sensed wound temperature.

Creating a Quality Management Protocol for Molded Plastics Used in Medical Device Manufacturing

Inspection, measurement, and documentation are critical elements.

Designing High Reliability into Life-Saving Cardiac Care Instruments

An industry expert offers tips for overload protection of defibrillators and ultrasound machines used in critical cardiac care.

Wound-Healing Biomaterial

Researchers have developed a biomaterial that significantly reduces scar formation after wounding.

Creating the Future: Implantable ICD Eliminates Wires & Offers Painless Defibrillation

An award-winning pacing system eliminates shocks, leads, and wires.

Protecting Medical Sensor Technologies

As sensors become more complex and specialized, they require a protective coating.

Small Brain Implant Helps Paralyzed Patients

A paper-clip-sized device has been shown to help patients with upper limb paralysis to text, e-mail, and even shop online in the first human trial.

Implantable Device Can Monitor and Treat Heart Disease

Bioelectronics are based on fully rubbery electronic materials that are compatible with heart tissue.

Product of the Month

OmniVision Technologies, Inc., Santa Clara, CA, has released an RGB-IR medical image sensor, which provides simultaneous white-light RGB captures and infrared monochrome captures in a single CMOS sensor.

Raising the Quality Bar: Why Medical OEMs Are Requiring MedAccred

The medical device industry’s accreditation program, MedAccred®, is continuing to grow and more and more major device makers are now on the list of subscribers. These medtech...

Pushing the Envelope in Pulmonary Image Analysis with Machine Learning and AI

Pulmonology is a field of medicine that deals with respiratory tract diseases, and the medical imaging used by pulmonologists is predominantly chest imaging: CXR, CT,...

Smart Wrap Implant Helps Bladder Control

An implantable smart wrap that fits safely and securely around the bladder may one day help people who have underactive bladders. The implant is an integrated device that can detect when the bladder...

Microlab Detects COVID-19 in 30 Minutes

Leveraging lab-on-a-chip technology and the cutting-edge genetic editing technique known as CRISPR, researchers have created a highly automated device that can identify the presence of the novel...

‘Electronic Skin’ Offers Recyclable Alternative for Wearables

A wearable electronic device is really wearable. The stretchy and fully recyclable circuit board is inspired by, and sticks onto, human skin. The device can heal itself, much...

Device Uses UV Light to Make N95 Masks Reusable

Using ultraviolet light (UV) can deactivate a bacterium that is accepted as a proxy for the dangerous-to-handle virus that causes COVID-19. The researchers say the process could eliminate...

Octopus-Inspired Sucker Transfers Thin, Delicate Tissue Grafts and Biosensors

A new device inspired by an octopus’s sucker rapidly transfers delicate tissue or electronic sheets to the patient, overcoming a key barrier to clinical...

New Tool Diagnoses Strokes with a Smartphone

A new tool could diagnose a stroke based on abnormalities in a patient’s speech ability and facial muscular movements, and with the accuracy of an emergency room physician — all within...