What does Medtronic’s Puritan reveal mean for medtech? Medtronic earned plaudits and praise for sharing the design specifications for its Puritan Bennett 560 (PB560) ventilators. But will the gesture actually lead to more ventilators being manufactured? In this episode of DeviceTalks Weekly, we’ll talk with experts who will tell us what the plans do and […]
How is coronavirus vaccine development going in the U.S.?
Researchers in Pittsburgh and Boston are moving forward with research into two separate vaccine programs against SARS-CoV-2, the new coronavirus causing the COVID-19 pandemic. The work of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine researchers is detailed in a paper published recently in EBioMedicine, which is published by the Lancet. Delivery of the vaccine involved a microneedle array to […]
SURVEY: Where does medtech go after coronavirus?
The past month has transformed the world, and the medtech industry in particular. But what will the next 12 months of the coronavirus pandemic bring? Please take three minutes to answer this short survey. We’d like to know how you see the medtech industry changing over the next 12 months. What recent pivots will become […]
DeviceTalks Weekly: Ep. 3 – Deconstructing medtech’s alphabet soup – DPA, MDR, FDA are all in the news
In this week’s DeviceTalks Weekly, we’ll examine how governmental effort, both foreign and domestic, are hitting the medtech industry. Our guests include Tracy Eberly, CEO of Fang Consulting, a regulatory advisory group. Eberly will update listeners on what pushing back the MDR deadline could mean for medtech companies and why some companies may be less […]
Study tests proven blood clot buster against COVID-19
While vaccines and pharmaceutical treatments for COVID-19 might be far off, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University of Colorado are exploring a stopgap measure that could buy time for critically ill patients, according to a news release by the two institutions. In a clinical trial being planned for hospitals in Massachusetts and […]
DeviceTalks Weekly: Ep. 2 – Medtech goes to war with COVID-19
In this week’s DeviceTalks Weekly Podcast, we’ll talk about medtech’s essential role in the escalating war against COVID-19. We’ll visit with Fluidda CEO Jan De Backer and Kevin Thornal, division president of diagnostic solutions at Hologic. The executives will explain how their imaging and diagnostic devices – which both received recent FDA approval – will […]
DeviceTalks Weekly: How is coronavirus affecting medtech?
Welcome to the DeviceTalks Weekly podcast, a regular – and sometimes irregular – opportunity to visit with the editorial team at MassDevice and Medical Design & Outsourcing. This week, Chris Newmarker, executive editor, life sciences, at WTWH Media, reviews our COVID-19 coverage with Tom Salemi, editorial director, DeviceTalks. Tom also chats with Jeffries analyst Raj […]
CVRx CEO Nadim Yared keeps his edge
CVRx CEO Nadim Yared has emerged as a fearless, outspoken leader in medtech. Tom Salemi, Editorial Director, DeviceTalks Throughout his career, Nadim Yared — the CEO of surging neurostimulation company CVRx — has pushed to assume new responsibilities and duties. However, during one moment in 2006, Yared adamantly refused to discuss leaving Medtronic to become CEO of […]
FDA clearance positions Sight Diagnostics to deliver on two-drop blood testing promise
Today’s news that Sight Diagnostics secured 510(k) clearance for its Olo analyzer certainly will reduce the flow of future patient tears and fears as the system requires just two drops of blood to conduct a range of tests. However, the clearance — which confirms the Olo works just as well as gold-standard lab-grade systems in […]
GenapSys secures $90 million in bid to upend sequencing
Following the raising of a $90 million Series C, privately held GenapSys will begin rolling out a line of low cost electronic-based genetic sequencing machines that it says could upend the research and clinical testing industries. CEO Hesaam Esfandyarpour says the Redwood City, Calif.–based company’s Sequencer, a table-top device that carries a price tag that’s […]
