Technology
How Biomedical Companies Navigated Turbulent Economic Times
Jan 30, 2012
While most giant corporations crashed during the worst economic climate since the Great Depression, the biomedical devices industry grew, invested, and...
Bionic Arm Offers Hope to Stroke Patients
Jan 25, 2012
According to data from the World Health Organization, an estimated 15 million people suffer strokes worldwide annually. Up to 80% stroke survivors have...
Medical Device Safety System Design: A Systematic Approach
Jan 24, 2012
As technology advances, medical devices that improve disease diagnosis and the treatment of illness or injury are introduced. Many of these lifesaving medical...
Newt Gingrich Wants to Whip FDA into Shape
Jan 20, 2012
  If you missed Newt Gingrich's response to John King last night, check it out on You Tube. This morning everyone was talking about Newt Gingrich...
Incremental vs. Disruptive: A Parallel Entrepreneur on What Innovation Really Is
Jan 18, 2012
When asked to define innovation, many people give an answer that separates the solution from the problem. “Doing that assumes that you know what the...
All Malfunctions are ‘Reportable’ to FDA
Jan 17, 2012
Any device malfunction, regardless its severity, is a reportable event under FDA’s Medical Device Reporting regulation for all life-supporting or life-...
Dream Devices that Would Revolutionize Healthcare
Jan 17, 2012
Image from Flickr user h.koppdelaney.  Last week, we posted an article titled “Experts Pick What's Hot in Medical Device Technology,...
Patient-Focused Innovation
Dec 29, 2011
Thomas Fogarty, MD, founded the Fogarty Institute for Innovation more than five years ago to shift the focus around device development to improving patient...
Fight Diabetes and Obesity without Surgery
Dec 21, 2011
The waistline of the global population continues to grow at an alarming rate. The problem has reached epidemic “With the successful completion...
FDA Needs to Examine Its Institutional Culture
Dec 19, 2011
The institutional culture at FDA has been gingerly discussed (if at all) for decades. As a major election year gets underway, the agency and its...