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Surgery and Surgical Robotics

TissueGen discusses use of drug-loaded fibres

Dr Kevin Nelson, TissueGen’s founder and CSO, will be presenting on the latest advancements in extrusion technology, which are enabling the next generation of drug delivery, at BIOMEDevice Boston, this week. Dr Nelson will discuss how the evolution of the...

April 17, 2018

Surgery and Surgical Robotics

Hair-Sized Fiber-Optic Probe Measures Temperatures Deep Inside the Brain

Researchers at the University of Adelaide have developed a tiny fiber-optic probe that can measure temperatures deep inside the body, while imaging structures in the region of interest. The probe, which has a similar thickness to a human hair, could...

April 16, 2018

Diagnostics & Healthcare News

Costa Rica Seeing Rapid Growth in Medical Device Sector

Advant Medical a global leader in Medical Device contract services and manufacturing solutions, recently announced a significant investment for its expansion into Costa Rica. The Costa Rican expansion saw the opening of a 13,000 square foot facility with a 2,200...

April 6, 2018

Biologics, Wound Care, Infection Prevention

AirAlle Medical Device for Head Lice

Chelmsford, Massachusetts, April 03, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Lynn Smith spent most of her career marketing advances in medical technology as a sales and business development executive for biotech companies. When the Smith family was confronted with head lice for...

April 4, 2018

Diagnostics & Healthcare News

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

Biologics, Wound Care, Infection Prevention

FDA Keeps Contraceptive on Market After it Makes Women Sick

Last month, Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb met with a group of women who’ve been knocking on the agency’s door for years. Online, they’re known as E-sisters: women who were implanted with the permanent “non-incisional” contraceptive called Essure, which consists...

April 2, 2018

Orthopedics and Spine

FDA Clears Continuous Compression Extremity Device

San Jose-based Panther Orthopedics, Inc.’s, flexible extremity joint fixation device has been cleared by the FDA for sale in the U.S. The Puma System is indicated for syndesmosis fixation, hallux valgus reconstruction, and tarsometatarsal fixation. While the FDA action is...

March 14, 2018

Cardiovascular / Cardiology

SherpaPak and SherpaPerfusion Donor Heart Transport Coolers Cleared in Europe

Paragonix Technologies, based in Braintree, Massachusetts, won European approval to introduce its SherpaPak and SherpaPerfusion cardiac transport systems. The devices are intended for maintaining hearts while they’re being transported from harvest in preparation for transplantation. The SherpaPak device relies on hypothermic static...

February 22, 2018

Diagnostics & Healthcare News

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