Stories
Features: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
R&D: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Technology Leaders: Motion Control
Features: Medical
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
Briefs: Materials
Silicone has a long and proven history of use with medical devices and can provide many benefits, from flexibility to cushioning. When working with some medical devices, however,...
Features: Design
Why do some people develop malfunction of their mitral valve (MV) after a heart attack? The answers are complex, and treatments are not yet perfected. But...
Briefs: AR/AI
More than one in eight people aged 75 and older in the United States develop moderate-to-severe blockage of the aortic valve in their hearts, usually caused by calcified deposits that build up...
Technology Leaders: Medical
Healthcare providers now, more than ever, make critical patient care decisions based on the test results obtained from medical diagnostic instrumentation. The accuracy, precision,...
Technology Leaders: Medical
Choosing the right fluid dispensing pump for a given application is critical. Whether it’s accuracy and precision or the need to perform for millions of cycles, understanding the most suitable types...
Features: Medical
A revolution is upon us. Dispense pump technology innovation is quickly bringing improved accuracy, capability, and versatility to medical device manufacturers. This...
Briefs: Medical
About 300,000 patients each year receive a heart valve replacement that is either a mechanical device or produced from animal tissue. Although these valves generally improve...
Briefs: Materials
For the millions of people every year who have or need medical devices implanted, a new advancement in 3D printing technology developed at the University of Florida promises...
Briefs: Medical
The human heart beats approximately 35 million times every year, effectively pumping blood into the circulation via four different heart valves. Unfortunately, in over four million people each...
Features: Medical
In any manufacturing environment, including life science manufacturing, it is difficult to evaluate a process that cannot be quantified and measured. But today's precision dispensing...
Technology Leaders: Medical
The home healthcare market is growing rapidly and is forecasted to continue to grow at a CAGR of eight to nine percent over the next five years. There are...
Features: Design
Interventional cardiology is one of the most dynamic medical device markets, witnessing a surge in new product development with accompanying mergers,...
Features: Medical
Dispensing plays an important role in medical device manufacturing. There are many stringent requirements for accuracy, reliability, repeatability, dispensing speed, and throughput. In...
Briefs: Medical
Hydrostatic Hyperbaric Oxygen Treatment Chamber
A hyperbaric chamber has been designed to achieve the goals of maximizing safety, minimizing complexity, and minimizing cost of hyperbaric chamber therapy. This design minimizes the volume of compressed gas in the chamber, and eliminates the need for complex gas mixing, carbon dioxide scrubbing,...
Technology Leaders: Medical
The results of recent surveys suggest that more than half of all healthcare decisions are made using test results obtained from medical diagnostic instrumentation. These tests...
Briefs: Medical
Medical Oxygen Concentrator for Microgravity Operation
Supplemental oxygen delivery systems are vital to provide a critical life support respiratory function. Whether they are used for patients suffering from lung diseases or other illnesses, to astronauts donning an oxygen...
Briefs: Medical
A team of scientists at RTI International, a leading research institute, have developed a 3D imaging catheter aimed at providing cardiologists with a live view from inside the heart during...
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Diabetes is the leading cause of limb loss, accounting for more than 65,000 amputations a year nationwide. In addition, there were more than 1,500 major limb amputations from US battle injuries...
Technology Leaders: Medical
The medical device industry has come a long way in the last 20 years. Part of the evolution has come from advancements in other industries, such as...
Applications: Medical
A team of life science entrepreneurs in Houston, TX, has developed the first catheter-deployed circulatory assist device intended for long-term use to treat chronic heart...
Features: Medical
When one thinks of the term “disposable”, the first impression might be to associate the item as one being low cost and not requiring much precision in...
R&D: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Microelectronic Circuits and Systems IMS in Duisburg, Germany, have developed a sensor that can measure and individually adjust brain pressure if the...
Applications: Medical
Valves are critical components of many disposable medical devices. They are responsible for controlling the movement of fluid, which could be a pharmaceutical or nutritional...
Briefs: Medical
The Next Generation of Cold Immersion Dry Suit Design Evolution for Hypothermia Prevention
A body at sea is vulnerable to hypothermia, which often leads to loss of life. Hypothermia is caused by the differences between the core body temperature and the surrounding air and seawater temperatures. The greater the differences between the body core...
Top Stories
INSIDER: Medical
Ultrathin Nanotech Promises to Help Tackle Antibiotic Resistance
Quiz: Medical
Medical Technology on the PGA Tour
INSIDER: Medical
Breaking Barriers in Drug Delivery with Better Lipid Nanoparticles
Features: Materials
Hydrogels as a Drug-Delivery Medium
Features: Medical
Overcoming Blockers to Digitizing Manufacturing Operations
INSIDER: Medical
Ask the Expert
Dan Sanchez on How to Improve Extruded Components

Improving extruded components requires careful attention to a number of factors, including dimensional tolerance, material selection, and processing. Trelleborg’s Dan Sanchez provides detailed insights into each of these considerations to help you advance your device innovations while reducing costs and speeding time to market.
Webcasts
Webinars: Medical

Scan-Based and Project Design for Medical
Upcoming Webinars: Manufacturing & Prototyping

Precision, Control and Repeatability: Harnessing the Power of UV...
Podcasts: Manufacturing & Prototyping

Here's an Idea: Medtech’s New Normal
Podcasts: Materials

Here's an Idea: A Plant-Based Gel That Saves Lives
Webinars: Medical

Adaptable Healthcare Solutions Designed for Safety and Security
Podcasts: Medical

Inside Story
Rapid Precision Prototyping Program Speeds Medtech Product Development
Rapid prototyping technologies play an important role in supporting new product development (NPD) by companies that are working to bring novel and innovative products to market. But in advanced industries where products often make use of multiple technologies, and where meeting a part’s exacting tolerances is essential, speed without precision is rarely enough. In such advanced manufacturing—including the medical device and surgical robotics industries — the ability to produce high-precision prototypes early in the development cycle can be critical for meeting design expectations and bringing finished products to market efficiently.