Development
Advisory Panels Schedule for Remainder of 2010
Several FDA advisory committees are meeting before the year is out to discuss and make recommendations on a variety of products and issues. The meetings concerning medical devices are listed below: RADIOLOGICAL DEVICES PANEL OF THE MEDICAL DEVICES ADVISORY COMMITTEE DATE: Sept...
Global Webcast: Innovations in Healthcare
If you missed the live Q&A with medical device experts held in June at MD&M East, now is your chance to hear what issues the panel discussed, right in the comfort of your own office. The "Innovations in Global Healthcare" webcast featured panelists from AdvaMed,...
Blog-in-a-blog: Leave it to Darth Vader
Here's my blog about a blog. I was doing a little research on "quality" in the medical device design and manufacturing environments, and I came across a blog that was very different, using Star Wars as a real-world example (sort of). But the more I thought about the blog...
Forwarding my medical education thanks to Micro
  Little by little, I’m learning about the medical device industry. With my EE background, I’m finding that it’s not as hard as I expected to pick up the terminology. While I don’t expect to be performing surgery any time soon, neither are the readers of...
Whitepaper Shows How to Improve Product Traceability Using Software
I came across a whitepaper recently that I thought deserved a special mention. It’s called “Improving traceability and auditability across the development lifecycle.” As its name suggests, the whitepaper explains how, using a set of software tools, users can get...
Strategic Whitepapers + a Chance to Win an IPOD
In a tough economy, it’s more important than ever to find ways to do your job more efficiently, effectively, and—most importantly—more profitably. The challenge is finding the time or the money to further your knowledge. Canon Communications has joined forces with...
Is Penang the Next Device Paradise?
Accellent and at least two other medical device companies are setting up shop in Penang, Malaysia. This is an area that is steadily increasing its medical device pedigree—B. Braun, Symmetry Medical, and St. Jude Medical already have facilities in the state. One...
Bucknell Seniors Take on Device Projects
Throughout their four years at Bucknell University,  biomedical engineering seniors try to create devices that solve medical problems. This year, the senior projects included a gurney that supports and maneuvers morbidly obese patients during cardiac catheterizations procedures...
Can Medical Device Makers Share?
At the Shape Memory and Superlastic Technologies (SMST) conference May 16–20, an unusual presentation was given by Craig Bonsignore (NDC). He advocated an open-source calculator to design stents (used in cardiovascular applications). This is pretty controversial because stent...
NIH Gives Purdue Center $14.9 Million in Funding
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has given $14.9 million to Purdue University (West Lafayette, IN) to fund the expansion of its Bindley Bioscience Center, which is home to a range of cancer and life sciences research. The money has been awarded through a federal stimulus...