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Products: Medical
Qosina, Edgewood, NY, offers an extensive selection of Barbed Male and Female Luer Connectors in stock and ready for immediate delivery. Barbed sizes include 1/32", 1/16", 3/32", 1/8", 5/32", 3/16", 1/4", 3/8", and 1/2"....
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Products: Medical
Stratasys Ltd., Minneapolis, MN, has extended its range of flexible and rigid material options for the Objet500 Connex3 Color Multimaterial 3D Printer. Hundreds of new rubber-like color materials and many rigid...
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Products: Medical
FLEXcon, Spencer, MA, launched the company’s dermaFLEX™ line of adhesives that meet the ISO 10993 biocompatibility standards for skin contact applications. FLEXcon’s dermaFLEX skin contact adhesives are non-cytotoxic,...
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Products: Medical
FlexiForce Enhanced Stability Sensor
Tekscan, Inc., Boston, MA, announces its latest sensor offering: the FlexiForce® Enhanced Stability Series 301 (ESS301). The ESS301 sensor is made from Tekscan’s new Enhanced Stability Series pressure sensitive ink that allows for the same high quality performance as other standard FlexiForce sensors but with...
Products: Medical
JG&A Metrology Center, Detroit, MI, introduces an increase to their flat panel sizes for Computed Tomography (CT) systems. Cone beam systems utilize the latest flat panel technology and are cost...
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Products: Medical
maxon precision motors, Fall River, MA, launches the MAXPOS 50/5 motion controller. This compact EtherCAT Slave ensures reliability and durability even under harsh conditions.
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Products: Medical
Linear Technology Corporation, Milpitas, CA, announces the LTC3124, a dual-phase, 3MHz, current-mode, synchronous boost DC/DC converter with output disconnect and inrush current limiting. Dual-phase...
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Products: Medical
Master Bond Inc., Hackensack, NJ, introduces UV15-42C, a one-part UV curable system for bonding, sealing, and coating applications. This smooth paste can be applied vertically without sagging. As an optically clear...
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Products: Test & Measurement
Hexagon Metrology, North Kingstown, RI, launched PC-DMIS 2014, a major release of its popular measurement software used for to collect, evaluate, manage, and present manufacturing data. PC-DMIS 2014 introduces...
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Products: Medical
Aerotech, Inc., Pittsburgh, PA, introduces the MPS75SLE, a compact, high-performance linear positioning stage, which features exceptionally smooth travel combined with outstanding accuracy, repeatability, and...
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Products: Medical
Mill-Max Mfg. Corp., Oyster Bay, NY, introduces a line of discrete, insulated spring-loaded pins. There are seven different heights of SMT spring pins to choose from assembled into a durable, high temperature Nylon 46...
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Products: Medical
CPC – Colder Products Company, St. Paul, MN, expanded its NS1 Series of quick disconnect couplings to include 1/4-28 male straight thread terminations, making it simple to retrofit existing systems. The...
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Products: Medical
Scapa Healthcare, Windsor, CT, offers a portfolio of materials, adhesives, conversion, printing, and packaging to support wearable device attachment to the skin. The combination of MEDIFIX® materials and converting,...
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Products: Medical
Avago Technologies, San Jose, CA, announces a new series of 3-channel reflective optical encoder devices, the AEDR-87xx, to address a wide range of challenges in motion control. The devices are ideal for use in...
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Products: Medical
Teguar, Charlotte, NC, announces the TM- 3010-24F and TM-3010-24 computers made specifically for medical electronic needs. A 4KV isolation card option allows for extra sensitive and life-dependent medical equipment...
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Products: Medical
Elcam Medical, Hackensack, NJ, announces that its Safe2Rotator is a rotator with a spin-lock feature that provides rotational flexibility to the distal part of the stopcock set. Available for standard bore products, the Safe2...
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Products: Medical
Piper Plastics, Chandler, AZ, announces that its new Kyron® MAX polymer series provides the highest strength line of injection moldable thermoplastic composites available. Its tensile strength is higher than steel, while...
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Products: Medical
ACCES I/O Products, Inc., San Diego, CA, introduces a new addition to its PCI Express family of I/O cards—Model PCIe-IDIO-24. Designed for high-voltage protection in industrial control and monitoring applications, this...
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Products: Medical
Cotronics Corporation, Brooklyn, NY, has launched its Resbond™ 940 Customizable Series, which are economical, fast-setting ceramic adhesives designed to solve all high-temperature bonding, sealing, or...
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Products: Medical
Nordson ASYMTEK, Carlsbad, CA, introduces high-speed, high-accuracy, scalable fluid dispensing systems with new Class 100 (ISO 5) compatible configurations. The new Spectrum™ II Cleanroom Series was...
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News: Medical
Finalists for Tricorder XPRIZE Announced
XPRIZE, the global leader in incentivized prize competitions, announced the 10 finalist teams competing for the $10 million Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE, a global competition sponsored by the Qualcomm Foundation for teams to develop a consumer-focused mobile device capable of diagnosing and interpreting a set...
Industry News: Medical
August 29, 2014, Month-End Industry News
Here is the latest batch of news from the medical products community. Please click the link for more.
INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
Nano-Measurements Using Optical Microscope Technique
New research has confirmed that a technique developed previously at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Gaithersburg, MD, can enable optical microscopes to measure the 3D shape of objects at nanometer-scale resolution—far below the normal resolution limit for optical...
INSIDER: Robotics, Automation & Control
Halo Device Busts Clots to Treat and Prevent Stroke
A new device that fits around the head like a halo, developed by a physician at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and a researcher at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, delivers therapy to quickly bust blood clots that could cause stroke. When ultrasound is typically used in...
INSIDER: Materials
Creating Custom Medical Implants with 3D Printers
A team of engineers at Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, has developed an innovative method of using off-the-shelf 3D printers and materials to fabricate custom medical implants that can contain antibacterial and chemotherapeutic compounds for targeted drug delivery.
INSIDER: Medical
Monitoring Breathing with Elastic Bands
A team of scientists from the University of Surrey, UK, and Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, report that they have developed a new type of flexible sensor that is inexpensive yet sensitive enough to measure a patient’s breathing, heart rate, or movement, alerting doctors to any irregularities.
INSIDER: Medical
Sweat Powers These Tattoo Biobatteries
A team of researchers at the University of California, San Diego, has designed a sensor applied as a temporary tattoo that can not only monitor a person’s progress during exercise but produce power generated by their perspiration that may be used to energize small electronic devices.
Industry News: Medical
August 2014 Mid-Month Industry News
Here is the latest batch of news from the medical products community. Please click the link for more.

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