FDA Clears Spinal Elements’s Anterior Cervical Fixation System

The device is part of the Carlsbad, CA-based company’s MIS Ultra Suite of products.

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The journey towards intelligent catheters

Joe Rowan, president and CEO for USA & Europe for materials specialist Junoksha, discusses the journey towards ‘intelligent catheters.’

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How gas and liquid valves improve medtech performance and efficiency

While the miniature solenoid valves might be simple in their core technology, their continued evolution makes them valuable and effective components for controlling the flow, direction and pressure of gases and fluids in today’s medical devices.

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No Quartz Needed: The World’s First Crystal-less, Wireless MCU Improves IoT Designs

From blood glucose, blood pressure, and oxygen saturation monitors in the medical sector, to temperature and smoke detectors used in building automation, to e-locks used in building security, wireless microcontrollers (MCU) play a vital role in monitoring and connecting the world around us.

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How catheters are becoming increasingly complex and efficient

As the neurovascular intervention marketplace accelerates toward miniaturization, innovations such as 2.5:1 peelable heat-shrink tubing (PHST), cut-to-length PHST and multi-filar active catheter solutions will come into their own.

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Research Zeroing in on Electronic Nose for Diagnosing Disease

Research at Oregon State University has pushed science closer to developing an electronic nose for monitoring air quality, detecting safety threats and diagnosing diseases by measuring gases in a patient’s breath.

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Wearable Gas Sensor Enhances Sensitivity

A highly sensitive wearable gas sensor for environmental and human health monitoring may soon become commercially available, according to researchers at Penn State and Northeastern University.

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How diaphragm pumps can work for sensitive devices

Diaphragm pumps work like bicycle pumps, with one intake and one output cycle per revolution of the drive motor, which produces an inherently pulsatile flow. Dynaflo developed one for the U.S. military that virtually eliminates this effect.

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Panasonic unveils new lithium ion pin batteries for wearables

Panasonic Industrial Devices Sales Co. of America recently announced a new addition to its line of lithium-ion pin cells for the wearables market.

How to select miniature motors for surgical robotics

Surgical robotics is leveraging the same sterilizable brushless direct current (BLDC) motors already used for decades in surgical hand tools. It’s all about torque, speed and reliability — as well as sterilization requirements.