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Podcasts: Connectivity
The regulatory landscape of medical device cybersecurity, focusing on the FDA's guidelines and requirements.
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Podcasts: Connectivity
Strategies and best practices for securing medical devices.
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INSIDER: Medical
Researchers have created a groundbreaking prototype for a new kind of leadless pacemaker designed for both children and adults. The innovative micropacemaker would be the first fully...
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Blog: Robotics, Automation & Control
Johns Hopkins University engineers have developed a pioneering prosthetic hand that can grip plush toys, water bottles, and other everyday objects like a human, carefully conforming and adjusting its grasp to avoid damaging or mishandling whatever it holds.
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Products: Medical
See the product of the month: Plastic Ingenuity's validated thermoformed ready-to-use pharma tubs. The tubs are comparable to traditional injection molded tubs; however, they offer rapid development, a lower cost of entry, and material reductions.
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Features: Medical
GE Healthcare has undergone a marked transformation in recent years, positioning itself further as a leader in medical technology imaging. This article explores the company’s innovation strategies, margin improvements, and market insights while also addressing key challenges over the past year and looking at future opportunities for the company.
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Videos of the Month: Medical
See the videos of the month, including one on monitoring brain blood flow with a wearable ultrasound patch; one on the Air Curtain, an invisible mask to kill viruses and block nearly all aerosols; one on helping amputees walk normally; and one on building a bionic eye using ‘bioinspiration.'
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From the Editor: Medical
Becton Dickinson’s (BD) decision to separate its biosciences and diagnostic solutions businesses is sending ripples through the in-vitro diagnostic (IVD) sector. BD says the separation was the result of a comprehensive business portfolio evaluation launched in early 2024. Read on to learn more.
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Products: Medical
See where the product focus is this month: laser marking and machining.
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Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
See the new products and services, including precision metering pumps from Circor International; a high-performance gantry robot with an integrated slip roller conveyor system from Dispense Works; XP Power's range of compact, low-profile AC-DC power supplies with flexible cooling options; Festo's updated mass flow controller; and much more.
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Mission Accomplished: Wearables
Technologies from NASA, federal labs, and universities have found commercial applications in the medical industry. Read on, as this article highlights some of those spin-off innovations.
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Applications: Medical
The field of microfluidics is a key technology for the medicine of the future. Having already revolutionized the world of laboratory medicine by enabling samples to be analyzed much faster, it also plays a major role in the development of new drugs. Read on to learn about Parallel Fluidics, which specializes in rapid manufacturing of microfluidics prototypes for the life sciences sector.
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Briefs: Medical
Georgia Tech researchers have created a 3D-printed heart valve made of bioresorbable materials and designed to fit an individual patient’s unique anatomy. Once implanted, the valves will be absorbed by the body and replaced by new tissue that will perform the function that the device once served. Read on to learn more.
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Briefs: Medical
Researchers have developed comfortable, washable smart pajamas that can monitor sleep disorders such as sleep apnea at home, without the need for sticky patches, cumbersome equipment or a visit to a specialist sleep clinic. Read on to learn more.
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Briefs: Medical
A team recently published papers in Nature Biomedical Engineering and Science documenting major progress on direct, carefully timed electrical stimulation of the brain that can recreate tactile feedback to give nuanced feeling to prosthetic hands. Read on to learn more.
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Briefs: Medical
Advances in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and sensor fusion drive robotics functionality across many applications, including healthcare. Read on to learn what this means.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Medical equipment designers rely on rupture disk devices for pressure relief and pressure release of gases and liquids for essential diagnostic, life safety, and analytical instrumentation. Read on to learn more about them.
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R&D: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Researchers have combined miniaturized hardware and intelligent algorithms to create a cost-effective, compact powerful tool capable of solving real-world problems in areas like healthcare. Read on to learn more.
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R&D: Medical
Researchers have significantly improved a new joining technology, interlocking metasurfaces, designed to increase the strength and stability of a structure in comparison to traditional techniques like bolts and adhesives, using shape memory alloys. Read on to learn more.
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R&D: Materials
Research engineers are developing smart implants that can both monitor and promote healing in fractured bones. Read on to learn more.
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R&D: Robotics, Automation & Control
Engineers have developed a pioneering prosthetic hand that can grip plush toys, water bottles, and other everyday objects like a human, carefully conforming and adjusting its grasp to avoid damaging or mishandling whatever it holds. Read on to learn more.
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R&D: AR/AI
Researchers are leveraging informatics approaches to tackle persistent challenges in data management and sharing, enabling real-world healthcare applications to enhance data security and accessibility. Read on to learn more.
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R&D: Wearables
Researchers have developed a pacifier designed to monitor a baby’s electrolyte levels in real time, potentially eliminating the need for repeated invasive blood draws. The team constructed a tiny tunnel, or microfluidic channel, into the body of the pacifier. Read on to learn more.
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Features: Medical
Researchers at the F-OCT Group have developed an imaging technique that can monitor and measure small, mobile cilia structures in human airways. This SEIM system, supported by negative-stiffness vibration isolation, has been validated as a means of finding CBF in human upper airway mucosa. Read on to learn more.
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Trivia: Medical
March 3rd is recognized as World Hearing Day. One of the most significant medical device innovations for hearing impairment is the cochlear implant. In what year was the first commercially available multi-channel cochlear implant...
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INSIDER: Medical
Screening methods for the cancer can be unreliable and result in false positives. To remedy this problem, scientists are developing a less-invasive portable device that would use blood...
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White Papers: Materials
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Mixing Technologies in the Pharmaceutical and Medical Industries
This white paper presents an overview of mixing technologies implemented across many of today’s highly competitive pharmaceutical and medical industries, as well as new...

News: Regulations/Standards
ASTM International’s medical and surgical devices committee (F04) is developing a proposed standard for a wrought nickel-titanium alloy. The alloy covered by the...
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INSIDER: Medical
In the future, delivering therapeutic drugs exactly where they are needed within the body could be the task of miniature robots.
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Ask the Expert

Eric Dietsch on the Benefits of Nitinol Wire
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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.

Inside Story

Inside Story: Selecting and Implementing Automation Solutions
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To find out more about selecting and implementing automation solutions, MDB recently spoke with Dave McMorrow, Technical Director, MMT Automation and Michael Wall, Technical Director, Somex Automation, an MMT company.

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