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Energy-Generating Textile To Deliver Battery-Free Power To Wearable Devices

A team of Korean scientists have designed a textile capable of harnessing energy from human motion to power wearable devices without an external power source.

Court Overturns Medtronic’s Patent Damage Award, Orders Retrial
A U.S. federal appeals court recently overturned a federal jury’s decision that awarded damages to Medtronic in its patent infringement suit against NuVasive Inc. The court ordered a retrial to determine a new figure for damages claimed by Medtronic. However, the appeals court upheld the jury’s decision that NuVasive infringed on certain patents claimed by Medtronic.
Sensors You Can Draw: Measuring Glucose With Bio-Ink Tattoos Penned On The Skin
Scientists have filled ordinary ballpoint pens with a bio-ink that enables them to literally draw sensors on human skin to measure glucose levels. The research team says that the sensor technology shows potential for both clinical use by doctors and home use by patients.
New Test Uses Immune “Hotspots” To Tailor Breast Cancer Treatment
Using crime-lab statistical software, scientists have developed a breast cancer test that analyzes images of intense immune system activity.

U.S. Ultrasound Market Driven By Growth In POC Segment, Use Of High-End Equipment
The market for ultrasound equipment has been growing steadily and is expected to continue growing for years to come. The two largest segments of the overall ultrasound equipment market in 2014 were cardiology and radiology segments. Radiology was the first area to use ultrasound equipment intensively. Due to the large number of important applications, cardiology has also become a traditional setting for the use of ultrasound devices. These respective segments each accounted for over 25% of the overall market.
Updating Your Quality Management System (QMS) For UDI
The Unique Device Identification (UDI) rule touches just about all parts of the FDA regulations for medical device makers. These are called conforming amendments, because they make the other parts conform to the concepts of the UDI rule. For example, complaints (820.198) and medical device reports (MDRs) (Part 803) need to include the UDI.
The Importance Of Liquid Silicone Rubber In Medical Device Development
Every product places demands on materials, but demands in the medical industry can be particularly stringent. When medical products and devices don’t perform as they should, the consequences can be serious, immediate, and costly.

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Optimize Low Volume, Non-Contact Liquid Dispensing
Laboratories charged with liquid analysis-based research will often encounter complications when attempting to dispense low microliter and nanoliter sized liquid droplets in their fluidic system set up. Parker Hannifin’s precision fluidics division recently developed a new type of syringe pump for low-volume, non-contact dispensing applications to overcome this very issue. Download the white paper to learn about this new technology and see if it can help you minimize your own low-volume liquid analysis applications.

A New Approach To Contract Medical Device Manufacturing Relationships

Contract manufacturing for medical devices is one of the fastest growing segments of the medical device industry. Why? Because in the race to bring new devices to market, device makers from the largest OEMs to small startups have found that it is more efficient to leverage the experience and facilities of outside organizations for device development rather than recruit, hire, and train people and purchase equipment and facilities.

Metal Injection Molding: A Cost Effective Alternative To Machining

Many design engineers and project managers know that metal injection molding can yield parts with complex shapes, outstanding strength, and excellent surface finishes. What they don’t know is that the technique is actually a cost-effective option for prototyping or low-volume production, particularly when compared to machining.

The Most Misunderstood Problem In Medical Injection Molding — And How To Solve It

Shear heating variations are a primary cause of numerous issues that are common when injection molding medical parts, including high scrap rates, weight and dimensional variation between cavities or between shots, long cycle times, warpage, and others. Yet more often than not these shear heating variations go unchecked, usually due to misunderstandings regarding shear heating in medical injection molding. This article will explain how shear heating develops, how it affects your parts, and how to control it to your advantage.

Wireless Dose-Compliance Monitoring In Drug-Delivery Devices

Incorporating wireless technology into medical devices is about more than just keeping up with the hottest technology trends; the benefits are real and significant, especially with regard to monitoring and encouraging dose compliance in the pharmaceutical and medical realm. Prior to embarking on the development of a wireless-enabled drug-delivery device, however, it is crucial to know what, specifically, the benefits are, and exactly what kinds of challenges and design considerations must be taken into account.

Companies To Watch: Novian Health
With its novel, laser-based technology, this early-stage company hopes to displace lumpectomy as the standard of care for eliminating breast tumors after early detection.
3D-Printed Injection Molding: The Future Of Rapid Prototyping?
3D printing has fundamentally changed the way medical devices are prototyped and tested; however, the technology can carry a product only so far into the development process, primarily due to material constraints. Injection molding (IM) can generate highly accurate prototypes in final production materials, but the process is not without its own drawbacks. Now, a hybrid prototyping process has emerged, offering medical device developers the best of both worlds — the speed and economy of 3D printing combined with the material and accuracy advantages of IM.
Development Of A Pathogen Inactivation System To Stop Ebola And Other Deadly Outbreaks
It wasn’t so long ago that the world was in an absolute panic over Ebola. One company that found itself smack in the middle of the global healthcare industry's response to Ebola was Cerus Corporation, maker of a technology that inactivates pathogens in transfused blood components. I recently had the pleasure of speaking with William “Obi” Greenman, the company's president and CEO. We discussed the Intercept system, the factors behind Cerus’ recent public stock offering, the modular premarket approval (PMA) pathway it used for Intercept, the story behind its Ebola involvement, and why it is uniquely positioned to help stop future infectious disease outbreaks.

Medical Device Product Development

ProMed has been a contract manufacturer of custom implantable medical device components for over twenty years now. They offer materials selection analysis, cost analysis, prototypes in their specified material in five business days or less, reduced tooling costs, reduced qualification times, IQ, OQ, and PQ validations, and process failure mode and effects analysis (PFMEA).

Optical Thickness Gauge: 157 Series

The Model 157 optical thickness gauge uses proven optical interferometer technology to measure the absolute thickness of specialty plastic films, medical membranes, and ophthalmic products.

N Series Rugged Medical Connectors

The N Series of connectors are used in a variety of medical device and equipment applications like medical imaging, monitoring devices, and therapeutic equipment. The N Series is used in the most demanding of applications where the environment requires durability, ruggedization and extended operating life.

Custom Packaging And Pouching

As demands in customer packaging and pouching grow in sophistication, ATL has kept pace by expanding our packaging capabilities. We have the engineering expertise to go beyond typical "cookie-cutter" type packaging modes in order to accommodate your one-stop supplier needs.

Insert Molding for Medical Devices

Insert molding techniques can streamline the production of your next medical device and eliminate the need for additional secondary operations. This type of molding can result in consistency, stability, the potential for reduced size and weight, and design flexibility.

Metal Injection Molding

Metal injection molding (MIM) is a mature and established metalworking process for creating fully dense, net-shape metal parts. The MIM process is economical and allows parts to be delivered much faster than traditional metal injection molding.

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Energy-Generating Textile To Deliver Battery-Free Power To Wearable Devices
A team of Korean scientists have designed a textile capable of harnessing energy from human motion to power wearable devices without an external power source.
Flower-Like Magnetic Nanoparticles Could Improve Cancer Treatment
Researchers at the Dartmouth Center of Nanotechnology Excellence have developed flower-shaped magnetic nanoparticles that are highly sensitive to magnetic fields. This increased sensitivity may enable hyperthermic treatment of deeper, harder-to-reach tumors.
Canon Launches Biomedical Subsidiary To Develop Tech For Diagnostics, Research
Canon U.S.A. has announced the formation of a new wholly owned subsidiary, Canon BioMedical. The new business unit will assume responsibility for all development, manufacturing, and marketing activities related to Canon’s life science and molecular diagnostics platform. It will also target new untapped areas for growth and innovation in medical analysis.
Court Overturns Medtronic’s Patent Damage Award, Orders Retrial
A U.S. federal appeals court recently overturned a federal jury’s decision that awarded damages to Medtronic in its patent infringement suit against NuVasive Inc. The court ordered a retrial to determine a new figure for damages claimed by Medtronic. However, the appeals court upheld the jury’s decision that NuVasive infringed on certain patents claimed by Medtronic.
New Flexible Fused Silica Capillary Tubing Delivers Precise Flow Control
Molex Incorporated will exhibit Polymicro Technologies Tight Tolerance Vision System (VS) Flexible Fused Silica Capillary Tubing at Booth 2518, Pittcon Conference and Exposition, March 8 - 12, 2015 in New Orleans.
Sensors You Can Draw: Measuring Glucose With Bio-Ink Tattoos Penned On The Skin
Scientists have filled ordinary ballpoint pens with a bio-ink that enables them to literally draw sensors on human skin to measure glucose levels. The research team says that the sensor technology shows potential for both clinical use by doctors and home use by patients.
New Test Uses Immune “Hotspots” To Tailor Breast Cancer Treatment
Using crime-lab statistical software, scientists have developed a breast cancer test that analyzes images of intense immune system activity.
Using Magnets To Steer Instruments In Single-Incision Surgery
Using a novel application of magnetic force, researchers from Vanderbilt University have developed minimally invasive surgical instruments that could be more effective and easier to use than current technology. By passing magnetic fields through tissue, the instruments can be operated without being physically manipulated, which could reduce the incisions required and improve function.