From Medical Design & Outsourcing

• Medtech glossary: Medical device industry terms, abbreviations and acronyms
  Acronyms, abbreviations and definitions of medtech terms, devices and companies Medtech’s a complicated business, with its own industry abbreviations, acronyms and terms. Cut through the jargon with our constantly evolving glossary — and please suggest additions by emailing Managing Editor Jim Hammerand. 3D printing: A type of additive manufacturing used to make patient-specific anatomical models,… […]
• HP names Dinsmore as an HP Digital Manufacturing Partner
  NEWS RELEASE: Dinsmore Earns Distinction as HP Digital Manufacturing Partner Irvine, CA — 28th November 2023 — Dinsmore, an ADDMAN Group company, has been promoted to be a HP Digital Manufacturing Partner, cementing its commitment to innovation in 3D printing. This distinction highlights Dinsmore’s dedication to providing state-of-the-art solutions, with a focus on growth in… […]
• Paragonix CEO Lisa Anderson’s quest to build better organ transport systems
  Paragonix co-founder and CEO Lisa Anderson offers advice for other device developers as her startup helps organs safely ship to recipients. As a complex disease researcher, Lisa Anderson couldn’t believe how crude the packaging was for a donor organ she received while studying type 1 diabetes. “What I was looking at at the time was… […]
• Evevo Manufacturing launches in Minnesota
  NEWS RELEASE: New medical device contract manufacturer launches to serve emerging medical device companies in Minnesota’s Medical Alley. Minneapolis – Nov. 28, 2023 – Visura Technologies, a privately owned medical device company based in Minneapolis, and YKK Corp. of America, a subsidiary of Japan-based YKK Corporation, today announced the launch of Evevo Manufacturing, a new… […]
• Researchers develop therapy for implant metal poisoning
  Researchers say they found a way to protect people from heavy metal poisoning as a result of toxicity from cobalt implants. Cobalt was widely used for hip and knee joint replacements due to strength and durability, but this led to cases of heavy metal poisoning. Toxicity can arise from cobalt and other metals if they… […]
• What Medtronic learned on its long road to RDN approval
  It took Medtronic nearly 13 years to win FDA approval for renal denervation (RDN) since buying Ardian and its hypertension-treating technology. Jason Weidman, the Medtronic SVP who is also president of coronary and RDN, has a more personal measure of the long road to approval for the world’s largest medical device manufacturer. “The first meeting… […]
• Medtronic weighs in on GLP-1 impact for device manufacturers
  Medtronic is the latest — and largest — device manufacturer to weigh in on GLP-1 weight loss drugs and how they could affect demand for medical devices. Medtronic Chair and CEO Geoff Martha today said the world’s largest medical device company doesn’t expect GLP-1 (glucagon-like peptide-1) drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy to take a big… […]
• November 2023 Medical Device Handbook: Breaking new ground in medtech
     How Abbott designed the world’s first dual-chamber leadless pacemaker system J&J used RWE for expanded indications — and you can, too Moon Surgical thinks Maestro’s light touch can win the surgical robotics arms race Breaking new ground in medtech This year has brought a flurry of firsts from medical device manufacturers as they develop… […]
• Making medical devices: Everything you need to know
  Medtech development is hard. Medical device creation requires manufacturing know-how in areas as wide-ranging as electrical components, high-performance polymers, molding and machining — and that doesn’t even include the required expertise in design, regulatory requirements and achieving reimbursement. The good news is that there is now a whole ecosystem of specialized experts serving the medical… […]
• Researchers develop first wearable for continuous monitoring of body sounds
  Northwestern University researchers have developed wearable devices for continuously monitoring the sounds made by a patient’s body, such as breathing, heartbeats and digestion. The soft devices stick to a patient’s skin and use two high-performance, digital microphones to listen to sounds inside and outside the body. One of the microphones faces inside the patient, while… […]
• Proxdis hires Jeffery Welch as chief engagement officer
  NEWS RELEASE: Former Tenet Healthcare Market CEO, Jeffery M. Welch Joins PROXDIS Leadership Boca Raton, Florida – PROXDIS, Inc., a healthcare technology company, pioneering a new era of collaboration between healthcare professionals and the medical device industry, proudly welcomes Jeffery M. Welch, the former Market CEO of Tenet Healthcare, to its executive team. With profound… […]