China FDA has released an updated tally of adverse event reporting for medical devices that found more than 320,000 incidents were noted in 2015 with 80% from users of medical equipment. A separate report linked 184 deaths to incidents involving devices.
Automotive giant Toyota Motor is teaming up with Dean Kamen, the inventor of the Segway, to create a next-generation wheelchair for disabled people and the elderly. The move comes after Toyota announced last year that it would sink $1 billion into artificial intelligence and robotics.
Apple has sharpened its focus in healthcare over the past couple of years with new apps and technology. One of the company’s latest projects, a health-centered Apple Watch, will play a key role in its future success, CEO Tim Cook said.
More and more drug makers are giving continuous manufacturing a try, seeing it as the future in small molecule drug production, in part, because the plants for the process are much smaller than those for batch processing. Now, scientists at MIT have a prototype of a continuous manufacturing device so small it might be used by pharmacies to produce their own generic drugs.
The standard of care for assessing the risk of recurrent arrhythmia may be on the verge of shifting. The current approach is typically based on somewhat imprecise blood pumping measurements. But Johns Hopkins University researchers have published results showing that their 3-D virtual heart assessment tool is more accurate than that approach
The US and EU say they have made more progress on harmonizing good manufacturing practice (GMP) inspections and could reach a deal by January 2017, according to a report on the 15th round of negotiations for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).
Researchers at the University of California-Davis report that glasses fitted with a miniature camera that uses optical character-recognition technology could help people who qualify as legally blind to read again.
A new study has highlighted rising obesity rates among children in rural China as the fallout from “left-behind” kids takes its toll.
Researchers have created a functional dissolvable device component made out of egg, magnesium and tungsten. In early testing, its performance matched that of non-degradable memory resistors, a kind of passive circuit that maintains a relationship between two terminals.
Early diagnosis and prevention of diabetes is the goal of researchers at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Zhejiang University in China. They have reported developing fiber-optic glucose sensors in a microfluidic chip that could be the basis of portable, accurate and inexpensive devices to measure glucose levels in sweat.