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Beyond strength: How titanium enhances biocompatibility in surgical applications
Choosing titanium metal products is about more than durability – it’s about enhancing healing, ensuring safety, and improving quality of life.
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World’s smallest pacemaker is activated by light
Smaller than a grain of rice, new pacemaker is particularly suited to the small, fragile hearts of newborn babies with congenital heart defects. The tiny pacemaker is paired with a small, soft, flexible wearable patch that sits on the patient’s chest. The wearable patch detects irregular heartbeats and automatically emits pulses of light.
Lumetrics’ OptiGauge II EMS
Non-contact glass, tubing, and multilayer thickness measurement system.
Ottobock invests in innovative technologies from MIT start-ups
The global medtech champion Ottobock is investing in innovative technologies for intuitive prosthesis control and digital socket technology with strategic ventures in the start-ups MuscleMetrix and BionicSkins; Investment in U.S. start-ups to further expand innovation leadership.
Sound waves for stable cleanliness in manufacturing
The manufacture of medical technology products such as implants, instruments, and devices are subject to very strict requirements – including for parts cleaning. Ultrasound is an indispensable process here. It ensures that the required cleanliness is achieved in a stable, efficient, and sustainable manner during both intermediate and final cleaning.
Vail Scientific taps Minnetronix to redesign device for earlier, faster sepsis screening
Vail partnered with Minnetronix on the device design after successful proof of concept and feasibility trials for its core technology.
Flex’s New Product Introduction Center serving healthcare customers in North America
The New Product Introduction (NPI) center offers a complete end-to-end product development solution from prototype to preclinical builds to design verification and production transfer.
3D printed device for babies with rare respiratory disease
Michigan Medicine and Materialise launch research study for bioresorbable implant intended to help children with severe tracheobronchomalacia.
Recent U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approvals
Medtronic earns approval for Adaptive deep brain stimulation system; OrthoNovis gets clearance to market wrist fracture system
Copper-infused microvesicles (CiMs)
With potential applications in dentistry, cranio-maxillo-facial surgery and beyond, CiMs; a promising leap forward in biomedical technology.
Dassault Systèmes enters next phase of Living Heart Project with AI-powered virtual twins
Members of the Living Heart Project are testing a new generation of the Living Heart model that can be configured for individual patients or patient populations; Customization and automation of AI-powered virtual heart models would help simplify and accelerate medical device development.
