A fully implantable, titanium total artificial heart (TAH) from Bivacor of Huntington Beach, CA, has received Breakthrough Device Designation from FDA as a bridge to transplant (BTT) for adults with ...

Recalls have always been somewhat of a bad word in the medical device industry. And yet, looking back on an MD+DI article published in 2005, there is a convincing case to be made that recalls are ...

One medical device company is going against the trend of shedding a spine unit in favor of focusing on stronger parts of the business. Highridge Medical (a spin-off spine business of ZimVie) has ...

The medical technology–focused contract development and manufacturing (CDMO) sector continues to be a growing market, reaching stellar heights in the United States, according to projections from a ...

Chandra S.R Nathala is a manager of application engineering at the MKS Spectra-Physics industrial applications laboratory in Rankweil, Austria. He holds a Ph.D. in Physics from Technische Universität ...

Medtronic is making a slight change in its policy for hybrid workers. The Dublin-based company is now increasing in-office work requirements to at least four days a week, according to a report from ...

Boston Scientific is discontinuing sales of its Acurate neo2 and Acurate Prime transcatheter aortic valve replacement systems. The Marlborough, MA-based company added that it would not pursue ...

Ensuring accuracy by force measurement and material testing is a necessary requirement in most every industry, especially orthopaedic and medical parts manufacturing where the highest quality control ...

The Department of Defense, through the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), recently announced that it is seeking proposals related to memory-restoring brain implants. In particular, ...

This year has given engineers plenty of challenges to overcome, some of which may pertain to their own careers. The pandemic has demanded a new way of working and in some cases has altered employment ...

The development and use of automation and control technologies is helping transform the design of medical devices and equipment across designs for applications that span R&D, laboratory processes, ...

Overall, the industry is experiencing a recovery in procedure volumes, with various regions and product areas showing growth. While supply chain pressures and staffing challenges persist, efforts are ...