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Component Manufacturer PrecisionX Acquired by Windjammer Capital

PrecisionX Group, Waterbury, CT, has been acquired by private equity firm Windjammer Capital. PrecisionX manufactures high-precision metal components for regulated industries....

Imaging

As we celebrate Women’s History Month, who was the biomedical pioneer who helped establish the field of radiation dosimetry, enabling safer and more precise use of medical imaging and radiation therapy devices?

Sensor Sniffs Out Pneumonia on Patient’s Breath

Engineers have developed a test to detect disease-related compounds in a patient’s breath. The new test could provide a faster way to diagnose pneumonia and other lung conditions. Rather...

De-Risking Medical Device Development with VA Technology Transfer

VA clinicians and researchers invent technologies grounded in patient experience and real-world care. (Courtesy of TechLink) The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) operates...

Tiny Sensor Could Transform Head Injury Detection

A tiny sensor detects hazardous head impacts the instant they occur could reshape safety monitoring in sports, transportation and other high-risk settings. The device, developed by...

The Lee Company Opens New Innovation Center

The Lee Company has opened a new Innovation Center, a 27,500 sq ft facility built to accelerate product development and reinforce the company’s continued commitment to innovation in miniature....

Technology

What battery chemistry, introduced in the early 1970s, dramatically increased the lifespan of implantable pacemakers and helped make long-term cardiac pacing clinically practical?

Quantum Surgical Acquires NeuWave Medical, Inc.

Quantum Surgical, a company specializing in minimally invasive robotic-assisted cancer treatment, has acquired NeuWave Medical, Inc., a medical device company whose products are used by...

MGS Acquires European-Based Medical Injection Molder Knudsen Plast A/S

MGS, a global healthcare contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), has acquired Knudsen Plast A/S, a premier Denmark-based injection molder with more...

Education Initiative: Student Education Initiative to Empower Next Generation of MedTech Engineers

Building on more than four decades of collaboration, Qosina and Informa Markets has launched a new Student Education Initiative designed to...

Product Demonstration: Live Demonstrations Showcase Heat Sealing Processes

MD&M West attendees can visit PackworldUSA at booth 3426 to see live sealing demonstrations and discuss ways to optimize heat sealing processes with the...

MD&M West Presentation: How Intelligent Product Lifecycle Management Drives Quality, Uptime, and Efficiency

On the final day of MD&M West 2026, Rene Zoelfl, global industry advisor, medtech at PTC, explores how companies are...

Product Launch: Micro Component Group Unveils 2026 Application-Led PCE Agenda

In a year when engineering teams are being asked to deliver smaller, smarter and faster products under tighter cost and regulatory pressure, the Micro Component...

Product Demonstration: Explore Current Light-Curing Technologies, Adhesives, and Equipment

Dymax is highlighting light-curable, CMR- and TPO-free adhesives developed for medical device assembly, including products used for bonding,...

Product Launch: Extrusion Crosshead Allows for Disassembly with a Single Turn

Guill Tool & Engineering has launched the Unicam™️ extrusion crosshead, a combination of the company’s Single-Point™️ concentricity adjustment...

Product Demonstration: Helping Medical OEMs De-Risk Miniaturization and Scale Micro Parts

Accumold returns to MD&M West 2026, focusing on how micro molding is increasingly central to innovation for medtech OEMs. Whether the goal is...

MD&M West Keynote: Disrupting the Status Quo: Are We Innovating or Just Iterating?

In this keynote kicking off day 2 of MD&M West, the panel examines whether the medtech industry is disrupting the status quo through innovation or rather...

Exhibitor Presentation: Avient Expands Portfolio of Healthcare Material Solutions

Avient Corporation, an innovator of materials solutions, returns to MD&M West this week as both an exhibitor and presenter. The company will highlight its...

Product Demonstration: Indium Corp. to Feature Precision Gold Solder Solutions at MD&M West

Indium Corporation is featuring its high-reliability AuLTRA® MediPro gold solder solutions at MD&M West. The MediPro is a family of...

Product Demonstration: Critical Manufacturing to Showcase AI-ready Manufacturing Operations Platform

Critical Manufacturing will demonstrate how manufacturers can move beyond digital transformation concepts and apply them in real...

MD&M West Keynote: AI Without the Hype: Real Results in Manufacturing

Everyone’s talking about AI. Few are actually producing more units because of it. In her keynote, Guidewheel CEO Lauren Dunford shows how leading manufacturers are...

Technology

What is the first noninvasive transdermal system approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to assess kidney function without blood draws or urine samples?

Oxygen Scavenger Doubles Biosensor Performance

Researchers have developed an oxygen scavenger that consumes excess oxygen by converting it into water. Crucially, this alcohol oxidase does not react with the actual target substances —...

Medical Design Briefs and MedAccred Team Up to Support Medical Manufacturing Excellence at MD&M West 2026

Delivering trusted information and connecting engineers, manufacturers, and innovators with the resources they need to bring safer,...

Stryker's Robert Cohen Named Chair of AdvaMed’s Digital Health Tech Division Board of Directors 

Robert Cohen, vice president, innovation and technology, orthopaedic group at Stryker, has been named the next chair of the AdvaMed Digital Health Tech Board of Directors. He succeeds Dr. Taha Kass-Hout, global chief science and technology officer at GE HealthCare, who served as the inaugural chair of the board overseeing the then-newly created division. Read on to learn more.

Technology

What is the first noninvasive spinal cord stimulation system authorized by FD) for improving hand strength and sensation after chronic spinal cord injury?

Wireless Patch Enables Early Cancer Detection

Researchers have developed a groundbreaking, battery-free wearable patch that could help detect skin cancer earlier and more accurately, potentially saving lives by making screening more...

Brain Implant Enables Safer Drug Delivery

Researchers have developed a new type of brain implant that can deliver drugs to multiple regions of the brain with high precision, offering fresh possibilities for the treatment of neurological...

Stryker Partners with Siemens Healthineers to Advance Robotic Neurovascular Interventions

Siemens Healthineers and Stryker have entered into a strategic partnership in the field of neurovascular robotics. The collaboration aims to develop a...