FDA Medical Device Safety Action Plan: Good or Bad for Medtech?
FDA’s five-pronged Medical Devices Safety Action Plan, revealed in April, has triggered concern by AdvaMed, Johnson & Johnson, and physician specialty groups.

STI Presents a new feature: Coating services
August 2018 – STI Laser Industries Ltd. (STI), a Contract Manufacturer of medical devices, with 20 years of experience, specializing in laser cutting and welding, braiding and wire forming, heat treatments and surface treatments of miniature metal components, used in implants and surgical tools.
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DePuy Launches New Interbody Implant For Degenerative Disc Disease
The new implant was specifically designed to simplify key stages of spinal fusion surgery to help restore spinal disc height between two vertebrae.

BACTOSTATTM Preventing cross-infection without using biocide and metal-based antimicrobial additives
DragonChem Ltd will introduce BACTOSATTM on New Technology Session of MEDTEC China 2018 which will be held on Sept.26-28 in Shanghai, China. BACTOSTATTM is a series of polymer re-engineered with innovative technology in formulation, build-in food-contact-safe and eco-friendly ingredients…

Is IBM Really Making Progress with Watson in Healthcare?
IBM’s senior VP of cognitive solutions and IBM research defended the company’s progress on bringing the benefits of AI to healthcare after recent media reports cast a negative light on the technology.

Immersive Technologies Are Promising Tools for Human Centric Design
The basics of virtual reality (VR) are no secret: originally adopted by gamers, it’s a computer technology that reproduces a physical environment, allowing the user to simulate a presence in and interact with that environment. What may be a surprise, however, is its application to areas beyond gaming—including medical device development.

New Thinking Informs Soft-Material 3D Printing
As 3D printing evolves, researchers have gone beyond mere fabrication processes to developing techniques for optimizing how particular materials can be printed. To that end, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University’s College of Engineering have developed a new approach to optimizing the 3D printing of soft materials. This approach combines expert judgment with an algorithm designed to search parameter combinations relevant for 3D printing, they said.

How robots are revolutionising medical device manufacturing
The factory of the future is a term that has been thrown around for a number of years now but what does it me

Developing a Diagnostic for Home Use? Assemble the Right Team and Consider These Issues
diagnostics is becoming the “darling of the medical industry because of potential growth,” says josh blackmore, global healthcare manager at thermoplastics resin supplier

Russian Scientists Design New MRI Coil for Preclinical Studies
The new coil produces images with three times higher resolution than standard commercial volume MRI coils.
