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From Medical Design & Outsourcing

• How Diversified Plastics and Carbon printers are enabling better medical supply transport
  Diversified Plastics (Brooklyn Park, Minn.) turned to Carbon printers and Digitial Light Synthesis technology to help startup Thaddeus Medical Systems create what it touts as more reliable active, smart cold-chain packaging. Thaddeus — a five-year-old company in the Mayo Clinic’s home city of Rochester, Minn. — found that conventional 3D-printing or manufacturing methods were unable… […]
• R&Q acquires Maetrics to expand its life science regulatory consulting
  Regulatory and Quality Solutions (R&Q) has acquired Maetrics, an international life sciences quality and regulatory consulting outfit. Financial terms of the deal, announced Sept. 10, were not disclosed. “R&Q’s vision has always been to become the worldwide leader in providing full-service regulatory and quality solutions to the medical device and diagnostic industries,” R&Q president Maria… […]
• Feds unveil COVID-19 vaccine distribution plan
  The Trump administration today released a plan to distribute an eventual COVID-19 vaccine free of charge, initially to targeted groups and more broadly as supply increases. The government is planning a phased distribution using a contract awarded to McKesson in August. The first recipients could include: Healthcare personnel likely to be exposed to or treat people… […]
• September 2020 Issue: 2020 Medical Device Handbook
  Click through our roughly 40 Handbook articles here Feature: How the presidential election could affect medtech Feature: These researchers adapted a stroke patient device for COVID-19 Feature: How a top research lab pivoted to fight COVID-19 Learning and innovating — what medtech does best The medical device industry never stands still. There’s always so much… […]
• Thermo Fisher sinks $140M into lab plastics production for COVID-19
  Thermo Fisher Scientific (NYSE:TMO) today announced it is investing more than $140 million to further expand its laboratory plastics disposables production to meet global demand for COVID-19 testing, as well as for development and manufacturing of therapies and vaccines. “Early in the pandemic, we quickly joined forces with governments, public health agencies and industry to increase… […]
• FDA clears Capsule Technologies’ addition of Masimo tech to patient monitor
  Capsule Technologies has received FDA 510(k) clearance for its Vitals Plus patient monitor with the Masimo NomoLine ISA CO2 module, Capsule announced today. Capnography technology enables clinicians to continuously monitor patient end-tidal carbon dioxide (EtCO2), respiratory rate (RR) and fractional inspired CO2 (FiCO2) for ventilation adequacy and the onset of changes in patient cardiovascular and… […]
• AdvaMed MedTech Conference goes virtual
  The annual AdvaMed MedTech Conference has kicked off its second virtual week with livestreamed sessions beginning at 12:30 p.m. Eastern time Wednesday. Originally scheduled to take place in Toronto, this year’s conference was moved online due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Future AdvaMed annual conferences will likely be a hybrid of in-person and virtual, group chair… […]
• Johnson & Johnson’s Cerenovus launches new clot removal devices to treat stroke
  Johnson & Johnson’s Cerenovus recently announced it has launched its new stroke solutions platform that includes three devices for clot removal procedures. The three devices are designed to aid physicians in performing mechanical thrombectomy procedures. The devices include the Cerebase DA Guide Sheath, Cerenovus Large Bore Catheter and Embotrap III Revascularization Device. Get the full… […]
• MTD Micro Molding doubles its manufacturing space
  MTD Micro Molding (Charlton, Mass.) announced today that it has completed an 11,700-square-foot expansion that roughly doubles its cleanroom manufacturing space to 27,450 square feet. The fast-growing medical micro molding business announced plans to expand in Charlton in 2017 — completing the project through the unexpected death of then-president Dennis Tully in 2019 and the… […]
• Saint-Gobain Life Sciences buys MS Techniques and Transluminal
  Saint-Gobain Life Sciences announced today that it is acquiring MS Techniques and Transluminal to expand its medical components capabilities. Pompey, France-based MS Techniques, a 137-person company, offers experience in high-precision thermoplastic extrusion and design expertise for minimally invasive catheter solutions centered around the cardiovascular market, according to a news release. Get the full story at our sister site, Medical Tubing… […]
• Luxottica converts part of factory to make face shields
  Designer eyewear company Luxottica Group announced today that it has repurposed a part of its Orange County, Calif. factory to supply face shields to meet the growing demand for coverage amid COVID-19. The 550,000 ft2 facility in the Foothill Ranch neighborhood typically produces thousands of units of Oakley eyewear and goggles each day. The company… […]