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MakerBot Launches 3D Printing Initiatives to Combat COVID-19

As COVID-19 continues to impact the world, the need for 3D printing solutions to provide supplies to the medical community increases drastically. MakerBot’s initiative aims to...

Clippard Adds Staff to Address COVID-19 Demands

The COVID-19 pandemic has created a crisis unlike anything the world has ever faced, and Clippard recognizes its unique role as a manufacturer of critical components and subassemblies for...

FDA Approves COVID-19 Innovations; Ohio State to Share Nationwide

The Food and Drug Administration has approved solutions created by scientists at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center that both expand and accelerate COVID-19...

COVID-19: OnScale Providing Free Cloud Core-House to Mitigate Productivity Loss

OnScale, which develops cloud engineering simulation software, today announces that it will provide free cloud core-hours to customers to promote customer safety...

Battelle Decontamination System Being Deployed to Meet Urgent Need for PPE for Healthcare Workforce

Battelle has begun rapid manufacturing of a system to decontaminate N95 respirator masks and other medical protective equipment.

COVID-19: Siemens Connects Providers and Designers to Produce Components

In response to the ongoing global health crisis caused by the outbreak of the COVID-19 virus, Siemens is making its Additive Manufacturing (AM) Network along with its...

White Hat Hackers Join Fight Against COVID-19

To help speed up efforts to find a vaccine for COVID-19, white hat hackers and computer experts are engaging in crowdsourced simulations aimed at better understanding how the virus behaves.

LifeSignals Fast Tracks Introduction of Single-Use Wireless Medical Biosensor Patches for COVID-19

LifeSignals Group Inc. has announced that a single use, wireless biosensor patch for the early detection and monitoring of coronavirus...

Mattress and Other Sleep Product Manufacturers Mobilizing to Help with Medical Supplies During COVID-19 Crisis

The International Sleep Products Association (ISPA) has announced that its members have mobilized to help meet the medical supply...

Circadia Health Commits $3 million in Respiratory Monitors to Global COVID-19 Efforts

Circadia Health has announced $3 million in medical devices and services toward COVID-19 relief efforts across the globe. The company has expedited the...

Medtronic Shares Ventilation Design Specifications to Accelerate Efforts to Increase Global Ventilator Production

Medtronic plc has announced that it is publicly sharing the design specifications for the Puritan Bennett™ 560 (PB 560) to...

Sense Accelerates Instrument-Free Molecular Diagnostic Test for COVID-19

Sense Biodetection Ltd. has announced an accelerated program to launch the world’s first instrument-free, point-of-care molecular diagnostic test for SARS-CoV-2, the...

University of Minnesota Medical Devices Center Creates New Ventilator

UMN anesthesiology fellow Stephen Richardson partnered with the Earl E. Bakken Medical Devices Center, directed by ME Professor Arthur Erdman, to create a prototype for a...

COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate Shows Promise

University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine scientists have announced a potential vaccine against SARS-CoV-2, the new coronavirus causing the COVID-19 pandemic. When tested in mice, the vaccine,...

Virgin Orbit Designs Mass-Producible Ventilator for COVID-19 Patients

Virgin Orbit, which builds and operates satellite launchers, has developed a new mass-producible bridge ventilator to help in the fight against the coronavirus (COVID-19)...

FDA Creates New Program to Expedite Development of Coronavirus Treatments

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has established new program specifically geared toward expediting the development of potentially safe and effective...

From the Editor - FDA Launches eSTAR: Voluntary Electronic Submission Program for 510(k)s

FDA has kicked off a new voluntary electronic submission program for 510(k)s.

Purdue Innovators Moving to Fast-Track COVID-19 Diagnostic, Therapeutics

As the coronavirus pandemic spreads across the U.S. and the world, Purdue University scientists are working to move solutions to diagnose and treat the virus to the...

Racing to Fight COVID-19: UCL, UCLH, and Formula One Develop Life-Saving Breathing Aids

A breathing aid that can help keep Covid-19 patients out of intensive care, adapted by mechanical engineers at UCL and clinicians at UCLH working with...

COVID-19: New Data Shows Americans Are Concerned About Finances, Job Security

Personal finance company LendEDU has conducted a survey of 1,000 adult Americans in the wake of the Conornavirus pandemic to better understand how the personal...

FDA Expedites Review of Diagnostic Tests to Combat COVID-19

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has made policy changes to respond to the urgent need for even faster testing availability. Although laboratories could use the EUA...

Can Low-Cost, Open-Source Ventilator Designs Help Save Lives?

MIT researchers hope to publish open-source designs for a low-cost respirator that could potentially help Covid-19 patients struggling with critical respiratory problems. The...

Stratasys Coalition for Face Shield Production With 3D Printing Now Numbers Over 150 Organizations Responding to Pandemic

A coalition of companies and universities assembled by Stratasys Ltd. (NASDAQ: SSYS) to produce face shields leveraging...

Do-It-Yourself Medical Devices, Protective Gear Fuel Battle Against COVID-19

It’s a race against time that some participants liken to Apollo 13, the stricken NASA spacecraft for which engineers improvised an air purification system from...

BCN3D Delivers 400 3D Printed Face Shields to Medical Workers, Plans to Print 2,000 More

BCN3D, a manufacturer of 3D printers based in Castelldefels (Barcelona, Spain), has devoted all its technological and manufacturing potential to helping...

Engineers Design Ventilator Parts and Face Shields, Donate Medical Supplies

Engineers at Binghamton University, State University of New York are stepping up on several fronts to help regional healthcare providers deal with the coronavirus...

FDA Issues Emergency Use Authorization for Ventilators

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) took action May 25, 2020, to make more ventilators available to healthcare personnel in the United States. FDA issued an emergency use...

Abbott Launches Novel Coronavirus Test

Abbott has received emergency use authorization (EUA) from the FDA for its molecular test for the identification of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. The company is deploying 150,000...

GM and Ventec Collaborate to Increase Ventilator Production

GM and Ventec Life Systems, in cooperation with StopTheSpread.org, the nation’s coordinated private sector response to COVID-19, are collaborating to enable Ventec to increase...