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Black History Month: This inventor laid the foundation for today’s pacemakers

February 18, 2020 By Danielle Kirsh

Most people in medtech know of Earl Bakken’s contributions to pacemakers and cardiac rhythm devices, but without Otis Boykin, pacemakers wouldn’t have the pacing technology they do today. Boykin, an African-American inventor and engineer, had a special interest in resistors. His mother died from heart failure when he was 1 year old. Thirty-one years later, […]

Filed Under: Cardiovascular, Featured, Structural Heart Tagged With: Abbott, Black History Month, Boston Scientific, Medtronic, pacemakers

The grim stories behind seven of medtech’s worst failures

April 19, 2019 By Danielle Kirsh

Medical devices save or restore thousands of patient lives every year, but the dark side to medtech innovation is increasingly drawing attention. For all the good the industry does, it’s worth remembering that the costs can be high – even fatal – when medical device companies don’t get things right. The examples range from women […]

Filed Under: Cardiac Implants, Cardiovascular, Clinical Trials, Diagnostics, Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Implants, Metal-on-Metal, Regulatory/Compliance Tagged With: Bayer, birth control, duodenoscope, Essure, MedTech, Medtronic, metal-on-metal hips, pacemakers, Theranos

17 black innovators who made medtech better

February 9, 2018 By Danielle Kirsh

From cardiology to endoscopy to blood transfusion, African Americans have played an important role as innovators in the history of medicine and medtech. To help mark African American History Month, here’s a look at some of their greatest achievements. Here are 17 black innovators who have made discoveries and invented devices to make medtech better. […]

Filed Under: Blood Management, Cardiac Implants, Cardiovascular, Diagnostics, Endoscopic, Hospital Care, Implants, Lab Instruments & Supplies, Oncology, Pharmaceutical, Research & Development, Structural Heart Tagged With: American Red Cross, artificial retina, blood transfusions, Cancer, endoscopy, epidemology, gastroenterology, gastroscopy, leprosy, malaria, MedTech, Ophthalmology, organ transplantation, pacemakers, tumors

9 battery and power source advances you need to know

August 2, 2017 By Danielle Kirsh

In the drive toward tinier implantable medical devices and wearable health sensors, battery and power source technology has been a major stumbling block. As experts noted in a discussion about battery technology during DeviceTalks Minnesota in June, battery innovation in the field is especially slow. Going too fast has its risks, too. Case in point […]

Filed Under: Cardiac Implants, Implants, Research & Development, Structural Heart Tagged With: ingestible device, MedTech, pacemakers, power source, solar panels, wearables

Battery-free pacemaker successfully powers the heart

June 12, 2017 By Danielle Kirsh

A wireless, battery-free pacemaker has shown success in powering the heart in pig models, according to researchers from Rice University and Texas Heart Institute. The pacemaker, designed by lead researcher Aydin Babakhani, gets its energy wirelessly from radio frequency radiation that gets transmitted wirelessly from an external battery pack from a few centimeters away. Get […]

Filed Under: Cardiac Implants, Cardiovascular, Implants, Structural Heart Tagged With: cardiology, MedTech, pacemakers, Rice University, University of Connecticut

9 cardiology breakthroughs you need to know

March 3, 2017 By Danielle Kirsh

Cardiology breakthroughs couldn’t come soon enough because heart disease is the No. 1 killer of men and women in the U.S. About 610,000 Americans die of heart disease per year, and an additional 735,000 Americans suffer from a heart attack. The statistics terrify. About 610,000 Americans die of heart disease per year, and an additional […]

Filed Under: Cardiovascular, Diagnostics, Research & Development, Robotics Tagged With: American Heart Association, aortic stenosis, cardiology, heart disease, ICD, MedTech, Medtronic, pacemakers

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