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Features: Tubing & Extrusion
Making the Gas Assist Plastic Molding Process Work for Medical Applications
Gas assist molding offers a variety of process and design advantages for medical equipment applications. It produces parts that are smooth and extremely cleanable,...
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Briefs: Materials
Helmet Smart Foam Signals Potential Concussions in Real Time
Most football fans have seen players get hit so hard they can barely walk back to the sideline. All too often in years past, those players were back on the field just a few plays...
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R&D: Medical
Pad Combines Pressure and Gel to Heal Scars
An innovative pad combines both reinforcing pressure and occlusion to treat hypertrophic scars from burns, surgeries, and trauma. The Smart Scar-Care pad showed good performance in reducing...
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Features: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Wearable Medical Sensors Provide New Solutions to Changing Needs
The healthcare world today is one that is rapidly changing and ever-evolving. Several dynamics are driving these changes, including an aging population, the increasing prevalence...
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R&D: Medical
Lightweight Metal Foam Blocks Radiation
A strong, lightweight metal foam created by a North Carolina State University researcher absorbs the energy of high-impact collisions and effectively blocks X-rays, gamma rays, and neutron radiation. The device offers new shielding possibilities for use in CT scanners.
Briefs: Materials
Treating Brain Aneurysms with Polymer Foam
A team of engineers at Texas A&M University, led by Duncan Maitland, a professor of biomedical engineering, along with the Mayo Clinic Medical School, aims to use special polyurethane-based shape...
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R&D: Robotics, Automation & Control
Preventing Fatal Blood Loss with Injectable Foam
In a combat situation, a wounded soldier can bleed to death quickly without prompt attention. But depending on where the injury is, like a deep wound at the neck, shoulder, or groin, traditional...
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Briefs: Medical
Using Molded Foam Makes Assembly a Snap
Today, medical devices are made using a variety of plastic materials and manufacturing processes. Advances in plastic processing make it possible to obtain virtually any shape, form, or function. In...
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Applications: Materials
Finding Balance Between Orthopedic Implant Coatings
The school of thought surrounding most orthopedic implant coatings is that the more porous and “rough” the surface is, the better the implant (hip, knee, etc.) will grip to, and connect...
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Briefs: Materials
Thin, Absorbent Skin Adhesive
An aging population and accompanying demand for wound dressing and stoma care technologies that provide better treatment than conventional techniques have prompted the medical adhesives industry to produce a new...
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Features: Materials
Crafting Complex Ceramic Implants With FCP Technology
Fast Ceramics Production (FCP) is a proprietary three-dimensional stereo lithography technology that is applied to ceramics to create patient-specific or volume production ceramic bone...
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INSIDER: Medical

Implantable Device Prevents Death from Opioid Overdose

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Briefs: Electronics & Computers

How Printed Electronics Are Transforming Healthcare

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INSIDER: Medical

Miniature Robots Can Navigate Through 3D Matrix

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Podcasts: Design

An Inside Look at Designing Drug-Delivery Pumps

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Podcasts: Medical

Pens and Autoinjectors as Drug-Delivery Options

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Quiz: Medical

What Do You Know About Medtech and the Gridiron?

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Ralph Bright on the Power of Power Cords
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Understanding power system components and how to connect them correctly is critical to meeting regulatory requirements and designing successful electrical products for worldwide markets. Interpower’s Ralph Bright defines these requirements and explains how to know which cord to select for your application.

Webcasts

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Podcasts: Wearables

The Rise of Advanced Sensor Technologies

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Upcoming Webinars: Medical

A Guide to Selecting Power Supplies for Medical Equipment

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On-Demand Webinars: Materials

Benefits of Streamlining Fluid Connections in Medical Applications

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On-Demand Webinars: Materials

The Power of the Wear Study in Medical Device Development

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Podcasts: Motion Control

An Inside Look at Designing Drug-Delivery Pumps

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On-Demand Webinars: Wearables

Addressing Connectivity and Performance in Connected Care IoT Devices

Inside Story

Inside Story: Trends in Packaging and Sterilization
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Eurofins Medical Device Testing (MDT) provides a full scope of testing services. In this interview, Eurofins’ experts, Sunny Modi, PhD, Director of Package Testing; and Elizabeth Sydnor, Director of Microbiology; answer common questions on medical device packaging and sterilization.

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