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Medical Equipment Manufacturers Accommodate Supersized Population
It’s no secret that the American waistline has been expanding for quite some time. In the past 20 years, according to the United Health Foundation, the average American male has gained 17.1 pounds and...
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Ideas on the Cheap: Outsourcing Innovation in the Medical Devices Industry
The medical devices industry in the United States has long created top-notch lifesaving equipment built to work across the board in every possible scenario. The American market demands über devices...
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Wireless Prosthetics Allow Researchers to Study Patients Outside the Lab
Steve Jobs once said: “Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” Engineers using great design to build intelligent prosthesis would probably agree. Prosthesis—an...
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Implant May Provide New Hope for Heart Failure Patients
Thirty-three percent of adults in the United States over the age of 20, and 53 percent of nursing home residents have hypertension (high blood pressure), according to the most recent CDC (Centers for...
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On Valentine’s Day: A Brief History of the Mechanical Heart
Love, the unmapped genome of human emotion. It’s right up there with dark matter and whatever it is that makes peanut butter so delicious. We may never be able to reverse-engineer a concept so...
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Best Foot Forward: Smart Prosthesis Provides Better Lifestyle
Since it developed the Trustep Foot in 1990, College Park Industries has been hard at work designing and manufacturing a collection of custom-built foot and ankle prosthetics. What makes these feet...
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PLM Helps Medical Device Makers with Compliance Woes
Of all the industries facing serious challenges around regulatory compliance, the medical device sector appears to be caught in a particularly thorny trap. On the one hand, manufacturers in this space...
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Breaking New Ground: Rugged MIT Wheelchair Brings Mobility to Developing World
After suffering a spinal cord injury when he fell from a tree, Ashok, from Jaipur, India, had to close down his tailoring shop because he couldn’t push his wheelchair across the rough terrain between...
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Prosthetics Innovation: Giving Back the Future to Boston Marathon Amputees
People throughout the world were touched by the tragedy of the Boston Marathon bombings. I live 45 minutes north of Boston – close enough to be highly effected by the bombings, the search for the...
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3D Printed Bones Fast Becoming Reality
3D printing has grown from a niche manufacturing process to a $2.7-billion industry over the past two decades, and now scientists are working to apply 3D printing technology to the field of medicine by...
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FDA Ruling Targets Patient Safety, Improves Innovation
Medical device manufacturers are among the top innovators in the world, developing life-saving technologies at a pace that frequently outstrips that of other industries. Yet when the stakes are...
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FDA’s Medical Device Ruling Calls for Rapid Compliance
At a recent doctor’s visit I had to list the medical history of my closest family members as part of a health profile. And that’s when it hit me: just how many of my loved ones are reliant on high-risk...
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3D Printed Organs Become More Complex
More than 121,000 people are waiting for organ transplants, according to the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network. New advancements in 3D printing (also called “bioprinting”) could change...
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Implantable Med Devices – 3 Smart Technologies to Watch
In the rapidly expanding universe of the Internet of Things, smart medical devices stand out by improving the quality and length of life, as well as efficiency of treatment. Chronic diseases like heart...
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Saving Lives: Ambulances Get Connected to the IoT
In a medical emergency, the value of time becomes tangible. Minutes can make the difference between life and death; disability and recovery. By lessening the time it takes to diagnose and treat a...
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Engineers Join the Battle to Control Ebola
When the first Ebola patient was brought into the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, among the many challenges for the medical staff was being able to hear the beat of his heart and the...
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Japanese Researchers Advance Artificial Heart Design
Takashi Isoyama says the kind of engineering he does is a little like watching TV. But it isn’t entertainment; it’s deadly serious. Isoyama is in an international race to develop the next generation of...
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IoT Enables New Non-Invasive Patient Monitoring
The Internet of Things is rapidly becoming embedded into every aspect of our lives, including healthcare, and non-invasive health monitoring products are taking the lead. “The big obstacle in the...
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