Lori A Carr Complications of diabetes are more easily treated when they are found early. Researchers at National Taiwan University Hospital have developed a wearable optical device to detect diabetic autonomic neuropathy, a common diabetic complication, that could be better than existing detection methods.
In response to back-to-back incidents involving government laboratories, a top official at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has resigned, and the agency has assembled a safety board to address concerns that have arisen after workers were potentially exposed to anthrax and H5N1 flu.
In a new final guidance issued in July, the FDA announced that it will frown upon the use of multiple predicate devices in 510(k) submissions, unlike when it cleared metal-on-metal hip implants, which the Agency later said can damage surrounding bones and contaminate the body by releasing ions into the bloodstream.
A record-breaking material discovered last year by Swedish researchers has passed another milestone for drug delivery, showing it can hold poorly soluble drugs and, down the road, deliver them with a fast dissolution rate.
Over the past two decades, 3-D printing has grown from a niche technology to a multibillion-dollar industry. The manufacturing process was developed in the 1980s as a way to produce small volumes of scale models but has since expanded to include the manufacturing of medical devices and implants for surgical and clinical use. The process, also known as additive manufacturing, uses computer models to build three-dimensional objects by printing materials like plastic, polymers, metals and powders in layers.
Acne remedies and ADHD drugs are big markets for the teen demographic — but how exactly are young consumers interpreting advertisements for these products? A soon-to-launch FDA study aims to find out exactly that.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services propose 4 changes to physician payment transparency rules that could mean major new costs for medical device makers.
UPS has ramped up its healthcare-compliant delivery service for the medical device industry, claiming it can now deliver products within four hours to more than 80% of the hospital beds in the U.S. from its network of Field Stocking Locations.
New York City is the center of the world’s largest economy, home to some banner medical institutions and a hotbed of global financiers. However, the city has never evolved into the biotech hotbed local leaders have hoped to see, a failure largely due to one of its inescapable traits: high rent.
Spending on MedTech Steady at Six Percent of U.S. Health Expenditures: Medical technology prices continue their trend of consistently low growth, increasing at approximately one-third the rate of prices in the overall economy and one-fifth the rate of prices for other medical goods and services over a 23-year period, according to an updated study released today by the Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed).