POSTS TAGGED AS medical devices

Kinematic Automation

Kinematic Automation (Twain Harte, CA) builds state of the art manufacturing systems for medical and diagnostics businesses, from proof [MORE]

Bayer’s Medical Device Coating Business

While this news piece from Bayer MaterialSciences LLC (Pittsburgh) amounts to an advertisement, it does mention in interesting new [MORE]

Mobile Health Perspectives

Reduce the size of the iPad, ruggedize it, create its ability to run multiple apps concurrently, include a camera, [MORE]

Heart-Powered Medical Devices

The piezoelectric effect explains how zinc oxide nanowires can produce an electric current during mechanical stress.  Knowing this, materials [MORE]

FDA Reviews Infusion Pump Risks

The infusion pump is a ubiquitous piece of hospital equipment, often at a 3:1 ratio to the number of [MORE]

Plastic RFID Tags

This story described R&D work going on a Sunchon National University in South Korea to make a more receptive [MORE]

Nice Suite of Home Monitoring Products

This story is nearly a sponsored advertisement for iSOFT (Sydney, Australia), a maker of home and distance monitoring devices for [MORE]

Razzle-Dazzle Bioengineering, Berkeley

Integrated molecular diagnostic systems or “iMDs,” is the term bioengineering professor Luke Lee at UC Berkeley uses to describe [MORE]

Analytics for Medical Device Clinical Trials

The FDA recently issued guidelines for using Bayesian statistical methods to correlate data from current and earlier clinical trials [MORE]

Smart coatings for Safer Surgical Implants

Professor Afsaneh Rabiei, in mechanical and biomedical engineering at North Carolina State University, has led a team in [MORE]

Magnesium-Based Mini Medical Devices

19th century English dentist Charles Stent, who invented a dental impression compound, could never have imagined he would be [MORE]

High-Speed Bluetooth

PSG College of Technology (named for an Indian industrialist/philanthropist on the order of Andrew Carnegie) has superb engineering capabilities and [MORE]

Seizure Detection Technology

Two companies-Cyberonics (Houston, TX) and Flint Hills Scientific (Lawrence, KS) are teaming up to make a more effective, implantable device [MORE]

Implantable, Biodegradable Electronics

Researchers at several universities bioengineering labs are working to create biodegradable devices-patches of electrodes embedded in silk-that could be implanted [MORE]

Wireless Health Devices

At a meeting this fall, California cardiologist Eric Topol, who  is director of the Scripps Translational Science Institute (San Diego) [MORE]

GE’s Reverse Innovation

In the lingo of international business, globalization means producing a product for worldwide sales.  “Reverse innovation,” is the opposite; it [MORE]

RFID Interference Protocols

About a year ago, alarm surfaced over RFID active tags interfering with hospital equipment, such as infusion pumps.  Only one [MORE]

A Radioisotope Battery

Electrical and computer engineering professor, Jae Kwon, at the University of Missouri, has developed a radioisotope battery about the size [MORE]

The ICEMan Cometh- MD-ICEMAN

Anyone who has visited a seriously sick person in the hospital, or witnessed a major surgery can envision the [MORE]

Summit for Best Practices and Innovation in Mobile Health, London, Dec. 1-2.

Meet with over 60 industry leaders from network operators, healthcare providers, device manufacturers, investors, systems integrators, body networks developers, and [MORE]