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From Medical Design & Outsourcing

• Microinnovation: what paper towels have to teach us about medtech
  How can you double the efficiency of a paper towel? Turns out you don’t need to reformulate or make the paper thicker. Instead, you find a simple concept that offers users a new way to think about the product. That’s what happened when paper towel manufacturers began producing the half-sized sheet. Roger Smith thinks the […]
• GI Plastek expands in-house capabilities
  GI Plastek (Wolfeboro, N.H.) – a specialist in large to medium complex molded products – announced this month that it has significantly expanded its in-house electromagnetic interference (EMI) and radio frequency interference (RFI) shielding capabilities. GI Plastek’s new mechanized production paint line is housed in a new 9,000-square-foot paint facility. The paint line allows GI Platek […]
• Medical extrusion conference to be held outside Minneapolis
  The Spotlight Medical Extrusion & Secondary Operations Conference will be held Nov. 7 at the Marriott Minneapolis West in St. Louis Park, Minn., according to its organizer Steve Maxson, Graham Engineering Corp.’s director of business development for extrusion. “The focus of our Spotlight conferences is on medical extrusion and secondary operations such as over-molding and tipping for catheters and […]
• How FDARA is making a difference for industry and patients
  Drs. Peter Marks, Jeffrey Shuren, and Janet Woodcock, FDA For decades, user fees paid by the medical products industry have provided critical resources needed to conduct product reviews in a timely fashion and to help ensure the safety and effectiveness of medical products that American patients depend upon. Since passage of the first medical product […]
• Schurter announces solid state SMD fuse for demanding applications
  Schurter recently announced its new High Current Fuse (HCF), which it is touting as a robust SMD fuse. The High Current fuse uses solid-state, thin-film technology.  It has fast-reacting breaking capacity rated 1000 A at 125 VAC/ 125 VDC, over a current range of 5 A to 15A. Schurter (Santa Rosa, Calif.) says the HCF […]
• Nexus IE creates catheter coating test system for BioInteractions
  Product consultancy Nexus Intelligent Engineering (Nexus IE) has designed and developed a fully automated catheter coating test system for medical device coatings supplier BioInteractions. Nexus IE (Witchford, U.K.) designed the BIOFriC 1000 fto measure the coefficient of friction of coated catheters. The test system could have uses in both  medical R&D laboratories and product manufacturing […]
• Fujifilm announces U.S. customer wins for Synapse imaging system
  Fujifilm Medical Systems U.S.A. said today that seven U.S. healthcare systems are picking up various products from the company’s Synapse enterprise imaging portfolio. The health systems includeHackensack Meridian Health and West Virginia University Health System – two of the largest healthcare networks in the mid-Atlantic region. Products bought include the Synapse 5 PACS, Synapse VNA, Synapse […]
• Pediatric medical device competition extending its deadline
  The National Capital Consortium for Pediatric Device Innovation (NCC-PDI) is extending its “Make Your Medical Device Pitch for Kids” competition deadline to Aug. 24 at midnight Pacific time. “We’ve had unprecedented interest in the competition this year and we want to accommodate as many pediatric medical device innovators as possible, so we want to give […]
• Silver and electricity can kill bacteria: Here’s how
  Swedish researchers have developed a way to use silver nanoparticles and electrical currents to prevent bacteria from growing on plastic surfaces – helping to prevent hospital infections in the process. Large electric currents and high silver concentrations are known to kill bacteria but pose a risk to humans. Before the Swedish Medical Nanoscience Center at Karolinska […]
• Model Solution honors student industrial designers
  Model Solution has honored eight industrial design students across the U.S. for excellence in product design with its second annual Model One Awards. The company – which has its U.S. office in Milpitas, Calif. – helped the eight students verify designs for manufacturing and pick colors, materials and finishes. Model Solution created mock-ups and high-quality appearance models of […]
• Study: Annual mammograms would prevent the most deaths
  (Reuters) – Yearly mammograms starting at age 40 would prevent the most deaths from breast cancer, U.S. researchers reported on Monday in a challenge to more conservative recommendations that take into account both the harms and the benefits of screening. The study, led by Dr. Elizabeth Arleo, a radiologist specializing in mammography at Weill Cornell Medicine […]