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Medical Devices Sector Showing Signs of Recovery

MIXiii-BIOMED 2018 Conference chair Ruti Alon: The pendulum has to move back to medical devices, after a decade in which the sector was starved of financing. For almost a decade, companies in the medical devices sector have lacked financing. Is...

April 3, 2018

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3D Printing Your Own Medical Devices – Why Not?

“Why aren’t you using additive manufacturing to make your medical devices?” Scott Taylor, Chief Technology Officer at Poly-Med Inc. (Anderson, SC), a supplier of bioresorbable polymers, posed that question to conference attendees at the recent co-located Medical Design & Manufacturing (MD&M) West and PLASTEC...

February 22, 2018

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The FDA Has Approved the First Blood Test for Concussions

Researchers are only now starting to unravel the potential long-term ramifications of a seemingly minor traumatic brain injury (mTBI), or concussion, to our health. Part of the difficulty has been in even figuring out when someone has a concussion in the first place, leading to...

February 21, 2018

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Apple iWatch Capable of Detecting Diabetes within 85 Percent Accuracy

It’s only been a few months since the Apple Watch began testing the waters as a tried-and-true medical device. But already, the wearable is proving its mettle. As per the latest study from Cardiogram founder Brandon Ballinger, the Apple Watch is...

February 13, 2018

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5 Innovative Medical Device Projects Receive $200k Funding at Pitt

Even the highest-tech medical devices began purely as ideas — conceptual, back-of-the-envelope notes that traveled a complicated road from abstract notion to widespread usage. For six years running, the University of Pittsburgh’s Center for Medical Innovation (CMI) has encouraged products along...

February 12, 2018

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Self-Healing Flexible Medical Devices? The Key is Repetition

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Medical devices powered by synthetic proteins created from repeated sequences of proteins may be possible, according to materials science and biotechnology experts, who looked at material inspired by the proteins in squid ring teeth. “The question...

February 9, 2018

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Smiths Medical Releases Firmware Update for Medical Device Security

Smiths Medical recently released a firmware update to eliminate potential medical device security vulnerabilities that had been discovered by an independent researcher earlier in 2017. The vulnerabilities may have allowed remote attackers to gain unauthorized access, affecting certain infusion pumps’ intended operations,...

February 6, 2018

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Wearable Medical Devices Helping Millions

Imagine if the pedometer on your wrist did more than just count steps. Imagine it measured blood sugar, detected heart rate irregularities and logged that data in a digital health record. For decades, health-care data like this was only recorded...

February 5, 2018

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3 Medtech Sectors Showing Positive Growth

Mike Matson, a medtech analyst at Needham & Co., kicked off earnings season with a recent report on three sectors he thinks grew last quarter, compared to the previous quarter, based on early earnings announcements from several companies. Matson noted...

January 31, 2018