From Medical Design & Outsourcing

• Philips seeks new superconducting materials for helium-free MRI scanners
  Royal Philips and superconducting magnetics researchers will seek ways to develop magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanners without helium cooling through a new partnership agreement. Their findings could make MRI scanners smaller, lighter and less expensive to manufacture and operate, increasing patient accessibility. With the world’s limited amount of helium dwindling, suppliers are rationing while medical… […]
• How Schurter helped Biotronik develop the Renamic Neo
  Biotronik won FDA approval for its Renamic Neo programmer for implanted cardiac rhythm management devices this year, thanks to some help from an electronic components supplier. The Lake Oswego, Oregon-based device developer designed the Renamic Neo for implantable cardioverter defibrillators, pacemakers and implantable cardiac monitors. The control unit wirelessly communicates with the implanted device and… […]
• Millstone Medical Outsourcing acquires Ethide Labs
  Millstone Medical Outsourcing announced today that it completed its acquisition of regulatory testing services provider Ethide Labs. Fall River, Massachusetts-based Millstone completed its acquisition on Nov. 14, 2022. West Warwick, Rhode Island-based Ethide Labs brings more than 60 years of experience in regulatory testing services for the medical device and pharmaceutical industries. The certified laboratory… […]
• Irish researchers think their new material could enable better spinal cord repair
  Researchers at the University of Limerick in Ireland shared research demonstrating progress in spinal cord tissue repair. The researchers, who conducted work at UL’s Bernal Institute, published their findings in Biomaterials Research. According to a news release, they developed new hybrid biomaterials. They turned to nanoparticles built on existing practices in tissue engineering. As a… […]
• What’s so special about Apollo Endosurgery’s stomach-shrinking weight loss tech?
  Apollo Endosurgery — set to be purchased by Boston Scientific for $615 million — develops new devices and minimally invasive procedures for weight loss. The procedure is called endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty (ESG) and the device that made it possible is the OverStitch endoscopic suturing system. Austin, Texas-based Apollo Endosurgery first won 510(k) clearance for OverStitch… […]
• 4 tips for medical device companies that are choosing a quality management system
  The right quality management system can be instrumental for success, but how can medical device companies adopt a comprehensive process and platform that meets their current and future needs? Ami Anderson, NeuFit Quality isn’t optional in the world of medical devices. Every item that makes its way into the hands — or the body —… […]
• How Google and iCAD will partner to advance AI mammography
  iCAD will help Google Health get its AI mammography technology into clinical practice. Meanwhile, Google will help iCAD improve its algorithms and reach more patients through the cloud. Google and iCAD are teaming up on the development and commercialization of artificial intelligence (AI) for detecting breast cancer. It’s Google Health’s first partnership with a mammography… […]
• Silicon Valley contract manufacturers form full-service group
  A new CDMO called Medeologix today announced the combination of three Silicon Valley medical device manufacturing companies into a full-function service group. New Taipei City, Taiwan-based Medeologix said it purchased Mediballoon, MedeonBio and Second Source Medical. The organizations have a combined footprint of 90,000 square feet, including a mass production facility in Taiwan. Operating as… […]
• New results detail J&J Embotrap design’s first-pass performance in stroke patients
  Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) has released results for its Embotrap stent retrievers showing the next-generation design’s success in removing blood clots from ischemic stroke patients. Johnson & Johnson MedTech’s Cerenovus subsidiary tracked outcomes for 1,000 ischemic stroke patients who underwent mechanical thrombectomy procedures with Embotrap devices as a first-line therapy. “The positive preliminary findings of… […]
• Cardinal Health expands single-use device reprocessing facility
  Cardinal Health (NYSE:CAH) recently opened its expanded Sustainable Technologies facility in Riverview, Florida. The facility is now twice as large as before, at 100,000 square feet, said Dublin, Ohio-based Cardinal Health. The medical device manufacturer and distributor launched Sustainable Technologies in 2015 to collect, reprocess and recycle single-use devices in the U.S. Sustainable Technologies now… […]
• A new mechanically active adhesive fights muscle atrophy
  Harvard bioengineers have created a mechanically active adhesive that can prevent muscle wasting and support atrophy recovery. They call it MAGENTA, an acronym for mechanically active gel–elastomer–nitinol tissue adhesive. Researchers from the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University and the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences successfully tested… […]