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Features: Materials
Biomedical Balloons: Understanding Their Physical and Mechanical Properties
Learn about the different material options for balloon catheters.
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Features: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
2021 Create the Future Design Contest: Medical Category Winner — Halo Speculum
A win for women.
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Features: Data Acquisition
FDA’s Modernization Plans Gain Momentum in Expediting Healthcare Innovation
The FDA will focus on data management and digitizing healthcare.
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Features: Imaging
The Advancement of Minimally Invasive Device Design
Despite the growth in MIS advancements over the last two decades, these techniques are still in their adolescence. There is much room for growth.
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Features: Materials
Hydrocolloid Innovation: Past, Present & Future
Learn the history of this game-changing medical material and the latest hydrocolloid developments and applications.
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Features: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Achieving High Marks for Medical Device Makers: Ultrashort Pulse Lasers
Unique device identifiers, or UDIs, enable better reporting, reviewing, and analyzing of adverse events.
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Features: Test & Measurement
On the Rise: Wearable Injector Systems
The advent of automatic drug-delivery devices has empowered patients to take their treatments in their own hands.
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Features: Wearables
Show Preview: Medical Wearables for Biosensors
See what's happening at the Designing Biosensors for Medical Wearables Conference.
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Features: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Inside Story: Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Group
Rodd Turnquist tells Medical Design Briefs how to select the best pumps for medical devices and accelerating time to market.
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Features: Materials
Hierarchical Surface Restructuring for Electrodes and Microelectrode Arrays
Pulse Technologies has developed a patented technology that uses ultrashort pulse lasers to restructure surfaces in electrode materials and implantables.
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Features: Wearables
Advanced Extrusion Techniques: How Engineered Extrusion Helps Medical Device Makers Improve Device Designs and Patient Experiences
Advances in hose and tubing manufacturing techniques are supporting new miniaturized devices and wearables.
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Features: IoMT
Show Preview: MD&M West
MD&M West brings together medtech engineers, business leaders, and innovative thinkers to create life-changing medical devices.
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Features: Materials
Maintaining Quality in Medical Imaging Applications: Considerations for Capacitor Selection
Before you select RF components for an MRI machine, make sure you first understand the basic physics of the technology.
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Features: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Scaling Single-Use Liquid Dispensing from R&D to Automated Production
A growing number of companies are turning to sterile, single-use, closed liquid dispensing systems and kits.
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Features: Medical
Impact-Modified Acrylic Copolymers: Evaluating Chemical Resistance
Learn the key parameters for evaluating the chemical resistance of your materials.
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Features: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Coping with the Pandemic: How One Contract Manufacturer Transformed Its Business
When the COVID-19 pandemic grounded much of the U.S. aerospace business in 2020, a Massachusetts-based contract manufacturer was forced to improvise.
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Features: Photonics/Optics
Next-Gen POC Diagnostics: Electronic Measurement Technology Driven by Global Demand for COVID-19 Testing
Many new companies entering the market are planning a diagnostic roadmap of capabilities beyond their entry point of COVID-19 testing.
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Features: Manufacturing & Prototyping
HCR Versatility Helps Manufacturers Shape Medical Devices
High consistency rubbers (HCRs) give medical device manufacturers the versatility they need for demanding therapeutic applications.
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Features: Test & Measurement
Disposables Drive the Rise of Bioplastics in the Healthcare Industry
See how medical disposables are leading to a growth in the use of bioplastics.
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Features: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Show Preview: Evolving to MedDev 2021
The "Evolving To MedDev" 2021 digital event will provide automotive and aerospace companies with practical information about how they can enter into the medical device supply chain.
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Features: Software
Automating Orthopedic Revision Planning
See how A.I.-based machine learning supports orthopedic revision surgeries.
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Features: Regulations/Standards
Testing Strategies for EUA Devices
While many devices have received Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for short-term use, new testing procedures are needed for the long-term.
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Features: Medical
Medical Device Design: Why Aesthetics Are More Than Cosmetic
An appropriate aesthetic can be much more than consequential cosmetics; it can improve ease-of-use and safety.
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Features: Materials
3D Printing Is Transforming the Medical Design Industry: Are You Ready?
Imagine a world where, instead of a physical warehouse full of actual products, you have an entire digital warehouse of design files.
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Features: Design
Leading Women in Engineering & Science: Jacqueline Anim, Sr. Principal Materials Engineer
Anim won back-to-back recognition when the Professional Organization of Woman of Excellence Recognized (P.O.W.E.R) named her 2019 Engineer of the Year.
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Features: Electronics & Computers
Developing an Engineering Ecosystem for Digital Healthcare Systems
The growing digitalization of healthcare systems is increasing the complexity of the tasks connected devices must fulfill — particularly the handling of highly sensitive data.
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Features: Wearables
Can a Wearable Stop a Pandemic?
The COVID-19 pandemic has ushered in a new period of growth for wearables.
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Features: Connectivity
Leading Women in Engineering & Science: Stasia Nowak, Quality Control Inspector
Nowak has been in Statistical Process Control for 30 years.
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Features: Design
Leading Women in Engineering & Science: COVID, Cancer, CRISPR, & More
More than ever, women are making a huge impact in medical science and engineering.
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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.

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Smarter Pathways for Precision Drug Delivery in Cancer Care

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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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