Medical Blog

Leveraging Ultrasonics to Manufacture Surgical Face Masks, Other Nonwoven Products

In this Q&A, Tom Hoover, senior medical market manager for assembly technologies at Emerson, addresses the benefits of using ultrasonic technology to...

FDA Authorizes First COVID-19 Test for Patient At-Home Sample Collection

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has authorized the first diagnostic test with a home collection option for COVID-19. Specifically, the FDA re-issued the...

COVID-19: Chinese Vaccines Enter Clinical Trials

According to China’s Science and Technology Daily, two COVID-19 inactivated vaccines have been approved for a phase I and II combined clinical trial by the National Medical Products...

Renesas Creates Open-Source Ventilator Reference Design to Fight COVID-19

Tokyo-based Renesas Electronics Corp., a supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, has introduced a new open-source ventilator system reference design that customers...

Rutgers Saliva Test for Coronavirus Gets FDA Approval

FDA has granted emergency use authorization (EUA) to Rutgers’ RUCDR Infinite Biologics and its collaborators for a new collection approach that utilizes saliva as the primary test...

Hackathon Generates Over 100 Ideas to Combat COVID-19

LauzHack — an online hackathon held by an EPFL student association in early April — proved to be a big hit. Over 100 project teams worked day and night to develop applications for...

Medtronic Ramps Up Ventilator Production to Support COVID-19 Patients

Medtronic plc is ramping up its ventilator production, as well as collaborating with technology partners and governments to drive new ventilator innovation and production,...

COVID-19: Philips to Increase Ventilator Production; Introduces New Ventilator

Royal Philips plans to double the production of its hospital ventilators by May 2020 and achieve a four-fold increase by the third quarter of 2020. This plan builds...

COVID-19: Drone Maker Converts Production to Reusable Masks

Altavian, a Gainesville, FL, based drone maker, has turned its production from drones to reusable masks to help answer the ongoing national supply shortage due to the COVID-19...

New App Can Help Detect COVID-19

Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence-based system that can listen to your cough and indicate whether you have COVID-19. With the new Coughvid app, developed by five researchers at EPFL’s...

NewAge Industries Sets Up COVID-19 Response Team

NewAge Industries, Southampton, PA, has set up a companywide Priority Response Team to expedite orders from customers — from receipt of the order through shipping — involving COVID-19...

COVID-19: AVX Plants Supplying Components for Critical Medical Equipment

To meet the rapid increase in customer demand for critical medical equipment such as lung ventilators, mobile x-ray, CT systems, ultrasound, and patient monitors, AVX is...

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 testing...

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 3D...

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 symptoms...

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.