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Briefs: Wearables
The insoles could prevent amputations caused by diabetic foot ulcers.
Features: Medical
The global market for minor orthopedic replacement implants exceeded $1.5 billion in 2017. Analysts from The Business Research Company forecast the market value to grow at a rate...
Features: Robotics, Automation & Control
In order to operate successfully in today's fast-paced and global market, manufacturing agility and output is paramount. The field of manufacturing for the medical industry is relying...
Briefs: Medical
People confined to a wheelchair are still confronted with insurmountable obstacles in everyday life — even in today’s more wheelchair-accessible society. There are often no elevators in a building —...
R&D: Medical
Foot Device Controls Video Game Action
A group of graduate students from Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, devised a sandal-like controller that allows a video game player to control the on-screen action with his feet. The team — dubbed GEAR, for Game Enhancing Augmented Reality — created the device for amputees or those with...
Features: Medical
Data drives results. Today, medical devices give feedback and insight like never before. Advances in engineering medical devices has led to smarter devices, improved consistency...
R&D: Medical
Low-Cost Prosthetic Knee Mimics Walking Motion
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology designed a low-cost prosthetic knee that mimics normal walking motion. The MIT team's prototype generates a torque profile similar to that of able-bodied knees, using only simple mechanical elements like springs and dampers. The team is testing...
Briefs: Medical
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Humans grow to be quite efficient at walking. Simulations of human locomotion show that walking on level ground at a steady speed should theoretically require no power input at...
Applications: Medical
It’s not always easy to walk in someone else’s shoes. It’s even more difficult if those shoes belong to a person with an artificial leg. However, that’s exactly what...
Briefs: Medical
A University of Texas at Dallas professor applied robot control theory to enable powered prosthetics to dynamically respond to the wearer’s environment and help amputees walk. As reported in...
Briefs: Medical
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 in...
R&D: Materials
A soft, wearable device that mimics the muscles, tendons, and ligaments of the lower leg could aid in the rehabilitation of patients with foot-ankle disorders such as drop foot, said Yong-Lae Park, an...
R&D: Medical
The ankle is a complex joint, supported by muscle, tendon, and bones, and maintaining stability and locomotion. Characterizing how it works, however, is not so straightforward says a group of researchers from...
Mission Accomplished: Imaging
When you think of the word cave, you might think of a dark, hidden place, right? Not anymore. The CAVE™ and CAVE2™, developed by the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at...
Applications: Medical
Worldwide an estimated 185 million people use a wheelchair daily. A company based in Auckland, New Zealand, has developed an innovative robotic technology that helps people with mobility...
Applications: Motion Control
The lack of gravity in space reduces the mechanical loading seen by both the muscles and bones of the body, especially those related to standing and moving. The body adapts to reduced...
Briefs: Medical
Formerly used only in the aerospace arena, Flexeon is a radical departure from the rigid carbon fiber materials found in most prosthetic feet. It’s a specially- formulated reinforced fiberglass...
Features: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
The ever-increasing functional capabilities of emerging medical de vices have precipitated new requirements for the multi-function foot controls used to operate the equipment. These foot controls...
Mission Accomplished: Medical
According to the National Spinal Cord Injury Statistical Center, somewhere between 236,000 to 327,000 people in the US are living with serious spinal cord injuries. About 155,000 have...
Features: Medical
Prosthetic Leg Connector
Dave King Kelowna, BC, Canada
The Medical winner was simply named Prosthetic Leg Connector. Its simplistic name belies the amount of thought and care that went into the creation of a device to...
Briefs: Medical
Improving Balance Function Using Low Levels of Electrical Stimulation of the Balance Organs
Crewmembers returning from long-duration space flight face significant challenges due to the microgravity-induced inappropriate adaptations in balance/sensorimotor function. The Neuroscience Laboratory at JSC is developing a method based on stochastic...
Briefs: Medical
Kinesthotic© orthotics are made to adapt to the foot by replicating, within footwear, an explicit quality of beach-sand surface dynamics on whatever surface the footwear is...
Features: Medical
Medical technology is currently capable of treating such physical hardships as loss of limb, eyelid paralysis, and chronic osteoarthritis – but researchers are...
Top Stories
INSIDER: Medical
Device Helps Diagnose Depression, Anxiety
News: Medical
Qosina Partners with Sealed Air to Offer Bioprocessing Bag Film
INSIDER: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Wearable Mimics CT Scans, Delivers Continuous Monitoring of Heart, Lungs
Blog: Design
Tariffs Are Now a Strategic Variable: How MedTech Manufacturers Are...
Briefs: Medical
Advanced Laser Welding Techniques for Titanium Pacemaker Housing:...
Podcasts: IoMT
The Growing Impact of Cybersecurity on Patient Safety in Medical Devices
Ask the Expert
Eric Dietsch on the Benefits of Nitinol Wire
In collaboration with the Fort Wayne Metals Engineering team, Eric Dietsch focuses on supporting customers with material recommendations, product development, and education. Eric is available to help you and your company with any Nitinol-related questions or needs that you may have.
Webcasts
Upcoming Webinars: Materials
Designing Medical Devices with Confidence: Using Servo Ultrasonic...
Podcasts: Medical
AI and Machine Learning in Medical Device Cybersecurity
Podcasts: Medical
The Growing Impact of Cybersecurity on Patient Safety in Medical Devices
On-Demand Webinars: Internet of Things
Enhancing Security in Connected Medical Devices
Podcasts: Electronics & Computers
The FDA’s Role in Medical Device Cybersecurity
Podcasts: Software
Inside Story
Inside Story: Trends in Packaging and Sterilization
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.
