Correction
Due to an editing error in the November issue, an inaccurate product description appears on page 30 of the Revolution in rehabilitation article. The following...
Meetings & Shows
April 6 to 7, Medical Silicone Conference Learn from the experts at this Medical Design-sponsored conference at the Hyatt Regency, Minneapolis. Speakers...
Meetings & Shows | Dec 2009
Medical Design and Manufacturing West Feb 8 to 11 - MD&M West conference and exposition at the Anaheim Convention Center will present advances in medical...
Packaging options for efficiency and value
The reality of today's challenging economic times is that we all need to accomplish more with less. Hospitals, surgery centers, and clinicians continue...
Contributors | Nov 2009
JIM LOSTETTER is manager of Faulhaber DC Motors for MicroMo Electronics. As a senior member of the management team, he is responsible for the development...
Cleveland Clinic's Top 10 includes 5 devices
A panel of 60 Cleveland Clinic doctors announced its Top 10 Medical Innovations for 2010, with half being medical devices and the others being processes...
No room for error in today's medical industry
Today's medical device and instrument engineers are facing mounting pressure to innovate faster while meeting increasingly stringent FDA regulations....
Designing in green
A medical product designed for reuse can eliminate the need to stock disposables and reduce the amount of medical waste. A medical product designed for...
Dark marking medical devices
Stainless steel medical devices such as surgical instruments have special requirements when it comes to laser marking. For example, it's important that...
3+3=sterilization findings
This article is an edited version of a white paper titled, Effect of Sterilization on the Mechanical Properties of Silicone Rubbers.To access the paper...
Revolution in rehabilitation
Like many her age, 20-year-old Ilana strives to stay fit. But hers is no ordinary fitness regimen. Ilana lives with cerebral palsy. And her program is...
IBM gets personal
When it comes to personalized medicine, Big Blue gets it as shown by an IBM research effort to develop a nanoscale DNA sequencer to help drive down the...
Non-contact power supply
The power demands of highly technical medical equipment and systems present challenges. If wired power is the preferred option, cables often get in the...
FDM helps build MRI scanners
To produce the plastic parts used in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanners, manufacturers have used conventional manufacturing techniques such as...
Controlling the humidity and temperature for labs and manufacturing
Critical lab process and sensitive small-batch manufacturing often require consistent conditions and close control of the environment. The Micro-Environment...
