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The need for speed: the US race to improve device regulation
On 23 June 2010, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the federal…
PEEK performance: a next-generation biomaterial
Polyetheretherketone, or PEEK, was originally developed in the late 1970s by the US aerospace industry, which was taken by its…
Device + biologic = a winning combination
They may not yet be the ‘new normal’ but combination products – devices combined with a drug or biologic –…
Manufacturing with consistent quality
It has been said that a company’s manufacturing outputs are only as good as the quality of its inputs, in…
Grenoble warming
The science behind magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is complex, but one of the key elements of such imagers is the…
Perfect harmony
In the advanced economies of North America, Europe, Japan and Australia, our health is better than ever, better than we…
Latin promise
Though it’s been scarcely remarked upon in the mainstream media, buried within President Obama’s healthcare reforms is a proposed 2.5%…
Joint at the hip
By the time DePuy Orthopaedics was forced to recall two of its hip replacement systems, the DePuy ASR XL acetabular…
Powering down
Patients who use battery-operated, wearable and portable medical devices (PMDs) want them to function for longer periods without frequent charging…
Planet-friendly packaging
The sustainable packaging market is forecast to reach a value of $142.4 billion by 2015 according to a recent report…