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Products: Packaging & Sterilization
Perfecseal (Oshkosh, WI) has certified its sterile medical pouch and bag manufacturing facility to ISO 14644-1 (1999) Class 7 cleanroom standards. Vision inspection systems have already been installed on several...
Products: Test & Measurement
Ultrasonic Cleaning Capabilities
ITW Highland Manufacturing (Waterbury, CT) offers in-house ultrasonic cleaning and testing capabilities to meet specifications for medical applications. Gravimetric, optical, and quantitative analysis of particle contamination is performed after cleaning parts. The gravimetric analysis employs filters, a cleaning...
Features: Software
The product development process in the medical device field poses a demanding design environment for engineers and project managers. The design process often requires...
Features: Medical
Since the 1950s and John Charnley’s introduction of the low friction hip prosthesis, metal-on-polyethylene bearings have remained the gold standard in terms of the long-term...
Features: Medical
The analytical techniques currently available to monitor chemical and biochemical production processes are difficult to apply in real time. Recent advances in solid-state...
Features: Test & Measurement
Reliability test plans are critical to the success of any new electronic medical device or technology. The tests selected must be stressful enough to identify defects but also...
INSIDER: Medical
Taking A Closer Look at Traumatic Brain Injury
Each year, upwards of 1.5 million cases of traumatic brain injury (TBI) occur in the United States. Conventional imaging methods don't always provide physicians with as much detail as they would like when it comes to determining how the injury damaged the patient's brain tissue, predicting how the...
Mission Accomplished: Medical
Diseases the affect the back of the eye include age-related macular degeneration (AMD), diabetic retinopathy, and uveitis. Although many therapies exist to treat these...
Products: Test & Measurement
Sensirion AG (Staefa, Switzerland) offers the SDP600 series of differential pressure sensors, featuring low energy consumption for long-term battery operation. The SDP606 and SDP616 sensors are designed to enter sleep mode...
Products: Test & Measurement
Werth (Old Saybrook, CT) has introduced an “OnTheFly” method for rapid measurement with image processing. ScopeCheck® and VideoCheck® coordinate measuring machines can now take measurements while in constant motion....
Products: Medical
NVision (Coppell, TX) has partnered with Materials Analysis (Dallas, TX) to offer product defect analysis that can potentially be introduced in product liability litigation to prove a manufacturer innocent of producing a...
Briefs: Medical
Nano Sponges for Drug Delivery and Medicinal Applications
This invention is a means of delivering a drug, or payload, to cells using non-covalent associations of the payload with nanoengineered scaffolds; specifically, functionalized single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) and their derivatives where the payload is effectively sequestered by the...
Videos: Materials
Portable Device Analyzes Rocks and Minerals
inXitu, Inc. specializes in developing technologies required to enable the next generation of scientific instruments used for materials analysis. The technology used in inXitus portable rock and mineral analyzer received a prestigious R&D 100 award and was chosen to fly on the Mars Science Laboratory...
Applications: Materials
Combination products offer several advantages when compared with drug delivery via oral, injection, and infusion methods. All drug-device...
Features: Materials
Major advances have been made in the past few decades in the percutaneous treatment of artery diseases. The development of each new technology has been spurred by the downfall of the...
INSIDER: Regulations/Standards
FDA and Stanford Tackle Med-Tech Education
Since it was established 11 years ago, the Stanford Biodesign Innovation Program has led to more than 200 patents and 24 start-up companies, including Spiracur, the company behind the SNaP Wound Care System (featured in the January issue of Medical Design Briefs). This intensive one-year program helps...
Products: Materials
Henkel (Dusseldorf, Germany) has developed the LOCTITE AssureCure system, designed to detect, measure, analyze, record, and provide a degree of cure metric relative to the transition of specially formulated...
Features: Packaging & Sterilization
Reusable devices face significant design challenges that single-use devices do not. A design engineer must think about how the device will perform...
INSIDER: Medical
Making Reusable Devices Safer
The FDA recently announced an initiative to improve reusable medical device reprocessing, the process of cleaning and disinfecting a device for use with more than one patient. Improper reprocessing of reusable medical devices can lead to Health care-Associated Infections (HAIs). Medical Design Briefs will explore this...
News: Regulations/Standards
Can the FDA Successfully Spark Innovation in the U.S.?
At an estimated $105.8 billion, the U.S. medical device market may be the world's largest, but it could do with a healthy boost of innovation.* According to a recent White House blog post, "In trying to understand why the country’s pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device sectors seem to be...
Products: Medical
Bal Seal Engineering (Foothill Ranch, CA) offers the SYGNUS™ Implantable Contact System, which combines electrical contacts and isolation seals in a standardized, platform-ready “stack” configuration. This...
Products: Test & Measurement
Quality Vision International (Rochester, NY) has introduced the full function benchtop digital measuring machine, the QVI SNAP™. SNAP’s digital megapixel camera with Native Video™ image processing...
Mission Accomplished: Medical
Dizziness and balance issues are the most frequently reported symptoms following exposure to an improvised explosive device.
Features: Materials
The packaging system is a crucial component to getting a medical device to market on time. Time constraints with new projects can affect the packaging system and may prohibit a proper...
Features: Medical
Package validation testing has always been an important aspect of many medical device development processes. Today, it isn’t just new packaging that manufacturers need to worry about —...
Features: Materials
The recognized benefits of the transdermal patch as a viable drug delivery system are driving the development of new forms of transdermal drug delivery systems (TDDS). These products can...
Features: Regulations/Standards
What’s So Hard About Medical Device Software Compliance?
The IEC 62304 standard for medical device software is causing system engineers worldwide to step back and examine their software development methods with considerable scrutiny. Although at one time, software development and testing was an integral part of overall system design and...
Features: Medical
In October of 2010, the first all-robotic surgery reportedly took place at Montreal General Hospital in Montreal, Canada. Intuitive Surgical’s da Vinci surgical robot...
Products: Packaging & Sterilization
Akron Coating and Adhesives (Akron, OH) offers the ACA60-140, a radiation sterilization process indicator that changes color at 25 kGy of gamma radiation and is suitable for use with the sterilization...
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INSIDER: Medical
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Briefs: Medical
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Podcasts: Design
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INSIDER: Software
MD&M West Presentation: How Intelligent Product Lifecycle Management...
Products: Materials
Ask the Expert
John Chandler on Achieving Quality Motion Control
FAULHABER MICROMO brings together the highest quality motion technologies and value-added services, together with global engineering, sourcing, and manufacturing, to deliver top quality micro motion solutions. With 34 years’ experience, John Chandler injects a key engineering perspective into all new projects and enjoys working closely with OEM customers to bring exciting new technologies to market.
Webcasts
Podcasts: Robotics, Automation & Control
The Hidden Nervous System of Surgical Robotics: Power, Data & Sensing Behind...
Podcasts: Robotics, Automation & Control
Surgical & Assistive Robotics: Redefining Human Capability
Podcasts: Design
How Wearables Are Enhancing Smart Drug Delivery
Podcasts: Medical
Developing Sustainable Drug-Delivery Devices
Podcasts: Medical
Smarter Pathways for Precision Drug Delivery in Cancer Care
On-Demand Webinars: Medical
Understanding Testing and Compliance Requirements for Wireless Medical Devices
Inside Story
Inside Story: Trends in Packaging and Sterilization
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.
