Technology

Self-Tightening Sports Footwear had its origins in angioplasty catheter guidance mechanisms. Now the company is back in medical devices with brace collaborations.

MIT Spin-out company MicroCHIPS has developed an implantable drug delivery device, which is currently targeting delivery of teriparatide in post menopausal osteoporotic women.

Augmented reality could be used to guide non-medics in performing ever more complex procedures when there’s no doc around. Like those frequent occasions when you’re in space for example.

New research may pave the way for all-metal hip prostheses to rise phoenix-like from the ashes.

Are 25% of European medics really using ipads in their professional lives? This report says so.

This simple in-line transducer could have many applications including diagnosis of compartment syndrome, one of the most costly hazards in Orthopaedics.

How does the current economic climate change the way companies collaborate to bring new technologies to market? Interesting opinion piece from Sagentia.

A new test called the ZET™ medical device polymer biocompatibility screening test, utilises Zebrafish to screen plastics, composites, and polymers for toxicity. Not sure how they react, but presumably it ain’t good.

The 14th MedTech Investing Europe Conference returns with an excellent speaker line up and agenda, which has been specifically designed with industry leaders to cover the most up to date issues in medical technologies

Innovative dressing technology designed to reduce the need for frequent and painful dressing changes in burn patient care.

A remarkable new manufacturing technology opens up a world of bespoke implant design.

Researchers have developed a new system for delivering drugs to the back of the eye that could offer more effective treatment while sparing patients the excruciating routine of having drugs injected into their eyes by syringe every six to eight weeks.

Scientists at Berkeley have decoded the imagined speech of a patient in what could be a breakthrough in understanding and utilisation of brainwaves in speech impaired patients.

Obvious innit? Researchers have proposed a technological solution which could provide energy for implantable devices such as pacemakers from the motion of the heart itself.

In the ultimate embodiment of biomimetics, Singapore researchers have taken inspiration from a seafood dinner to develop a robot which can isolate and excise the tiniest lesions endoscopically.

Robot Surgery questioned on patient benefit and economics in USA study.