Archive for the ‘medtechinsider’ Category

Rap Music Powers Medical Pressure Sensor

Thursday, February 2nd, 2012

[caption id="attachment_26805" align="alignleft" width="271" caption="This implantable medical sensor can be powered by music."][/caption] At the IEEE MEMS conference in Paris this week, Purdue researchers introduced an implantable sensor that can be powered by exposure to music, according to a Purdue press release. Music within 200-500 Hz causes a cantilever in the device ...

It’s Official: Interface Extrusion Process Is Pyrogen Free

Thursday, February 2nd, 2012

From the wire: Independent statistically significant test results from a leading laboratory have shown that Interface catheters extruded solely in a cleanroom environment are free of pyrogens. Results from three different methods of Limulus Amebocyte Lysate (LAL) testing for endotoxins indicate the extrusion lines can be classified as “pyrogen free.”  ...

Medtech Week Recap: Barack Obama Details Plan to Bring Manufacturers Back to the United States

Monday, January 30th, 2012

Last week, US President Barack Obama presented a blueprint for reshoring—bringing manufacturing back to the United States—in his State of the Union Address. Obama proposed tax breaks and financial incentives for American companies that bring back jobs to the United States. It remains to be seen if these ideas get ...

Is CE Mark “Good Enough?” LinkedIn Members Weigh In

Friday, January 27th, 2012

Over the years, a growing number of medical device companies in the United States have decided to obtain the CE mark for new products before attempting to approve products through FDA. While FDA is not monolithic, many in the industry view the European system as generally more consistent, transparent, and ...

Nano Loudspeaker Could Improve MRI Technology

Thursday, January 26th, 2012

If a theory about detecting extremely faint electrical signals by means of a nanomechanical loudspeaker can be shown to work in experiments, it could result in much simpler MRI procedures, reports Nanowerk News. A team of physicists from the Joint Quantum Institute and Harvard University in the United States and the ...

Medilink Launches Medtech Funding Resource

Thursday, January 26th, 2012

[caption id="attachment_26656" align="alignleft" width="200" caption="Tony Davis, Chair, Medilink UK"][/caption] UK medtech business support organisation Medilink has launched a funding and finance leads service for companies operating in the life sciences sector. The service provides subscribing companies with access to a regularly updated database compiling sources that are willing to fund innovation. "Many ...

MEDDEV Guidelines on Stand-Alone Medical Software Published

Wednesday, January 25th, 2012

The MEDDEV guidelines on stand-alone software have just been published, prompting the question: What does it all mean? We asked lawyer and blogger Erik Vollebregt. He had the answers (and a few more questions). Vollebregt is a partner at Amsterdam-based life sciences boutique law firm Axon Lawyers and maintains the medicaldeviceslegal blog. ...

UK Spin-Out Company Markets Biomedical Carbon with Unique Properties

Wednesday, January 25th, 2012

Mast Carbon, a manufacturer of synthetic carbon–based specialty materials based in Basingstoke, UK, has established a spin-out company to commercialise biomedical carbon in a joint venture with Second Mile. Named Acesco Health, the spin-out is developing a proprietary range of activated carbon bead products that combine the usual benefits of ...

Terahertz Transmitter Developed at TU Darmstadt Shows Promise for Medical Applications

Tuesday, January 24th, 2012

A tiny terahertz (THz) transmitter developed at the Technische Universität Darmstadt Institute for Microwave Technology and Photonics achieves the highest frequency on record for a device of this kind and can operate at room temperature. Typically used to nondestructively inspect materials, THz transmitters have found limited adoption because of their cost ...

T-Ray Imaging Technology Could Lead to Real Version of Star Trek Tricoder Device

Tuesday, January 24th, 2012

The Consumer Electronics Show, taking place in Las Vegas each year, is primarily a showcase of products about to hit the market, but this year Qualcomm made news when it announced a US$10 million competition for the development of a device similar to the Tricoder in Star Trek. The hand-held ...

BMS Launches Bio-absorbable Scaffold for Implant Devices

Friday, January 20th, 2012

[caption id="attachment_26568" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Sheets of Biomedical Structures' Biofelt absorbable textile"][/caption] Biomedical Structures LLC (BMS), a designer, developer and manufacturer of biomedical textiles, this week announced its new Biofelt absorbable scaffold for implant devices. The bio-absorbable textile is an updated version of its Biofelt product with process improvements and QA control ...

The Medtech Side of Pharmapack Europe

Friday, January 20th, 2012

[caption id="attachment_26556" align="alignleft" width="175" caption="Ypsomed's UnoPen."][/caption] Obviously, there's an awful lot of pharmaceutical packaging on display at Pharmapack Europe, but medical packaging also gets a fair amount of attention at the annual event. If you live in or near Paris, or are just looking for an excuse to spend some time ...