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- A healthy market - M&A activity
- A platform for change
- Are manufacturers getting the green signals?
- Age of the machines: automated manufacturing
- A patent is a virtue: brand protection
- A new strategy for surgical site infections
- Assume the correct position
- A new focus – miniaturised precision drives
- A new twist on heart modelling – soft robotics
- A centre for clinical excellence: innovative orthopaedic devices
- Automatic surgery: revolutionary 3D
- A helping hand: the soft robotic glove
- A supercool breakthrough in donor organ storage
- Automatic decisions – cutting-edge lab technology
- Active and intelligent – the smart packaging revolution
- Automated imaging – radiology motor control technology
- Better by design: keeping the user in mind
- Bonus material: ceramics
- Bioresorbable ghosts in medical devices
- Break the mould: the benefits and applications of MIM
- Balance of power – medical-grade power sources
- Blood work – point-of-care HIV testing
- Blurred lines: our glorious gadgets
- Buckle up – new European Union regulations
- Bespoke the word – 3D-printed implants
- Blistering form – thermoformed packaging
- Bionic human – the evolution of 3D-printed medical devices
- Choosing the right EMS partner
- Chain reaction: overcoming communication hurdles
- Code of conduct - we talk to Anton van Zijl
- Combination devices: stronger together
- Chain reaction: optimal logistics for shipping medical devices
- Chips with everything: microfluidics and diagnostics
- Circle of life – the return of biopolymers
- Connect the dots – selecting the correct electric connector
- Coat of charms – the MDD coatings round table
- Cost of living: the medical device excise tax
- Close to the bone: bioactive materials
- Cardio scaffolds stand trial at Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics
- Catch some rays with gamma sterilisation
- Chip off the old block: organs-on-chips
- Catch your breath – digital prescriptions
- Clean break – patient-friendly, robust plastics
- Cast out the old – revolutionary printed plastic supports
- Coating against bacterial colonisation – toward a safer hospital environment
- Complete unknown – the potential impact of Brexit
- Crack under pressure – mitigating environmental stress damage
- Device + biologic = a winning combination
- Down to the wire: health IT infrastructure gets smart
- Driven by demand: regulating custom-made medical devices
- Disappearing act: the bioabsorbable vascular scaffold revolution
- Don’t Sugar-coat it – lubricious coatings
- Digital watch - micro and nanotechnology innovation
- Exception to the rule: shipping used medical devices
- Exporters take note: FDA registration regulations
- Enhanced vision – the future of medical micro optics
- Exception to the rule – transporting medical devices
- Electric partnerships: outsourcing microelectronics
- Early warning: live-saving cancer diagnosis technology
- E-labelling regulations play catch-up
- Free enterprise: innovation in Europe
- Fluid partnerships: finding the right fluidics pumps supplier
- Forward thinking: innovation in the motors and motion control market
- Fluid mobility – the rise of microfluidic technology
- Freedom to roam – advanced patient monitoring
- For good measure – ensuring accurate dosimetry
- Heart of the device market
- How to select the right sterilisation partner
- How packaging can aid patient compliance
- Heart of the matter - the cardiac rhythm management market
- High tech, low profile – extruded polymer tubing
- How to manufacture success – selecting an EMS provider
- High-risk strategies – the future of CE approval
- Health e-future – telemedicine and connected care
- Hacked to death: the dangers of devices
- Head to toe: brain-controlled prosthetics
- Helping hand – motor control technology
- How do you like them grapples? – advances in robotic grippers
- Hit the mark – the process of laser marking
- Hospital hackers – mitigating hospital cybersecurity risks
- High maintenance – the importance of TPM
- Injection of pace: the insulin delivery devices market spikes
- Injection moulders pump up the volume
- Into the light: innovations in optoelectronics
- IVDs: the outsourcing essentials
- In a heartbeat: M&A activity 2012
- Ideas in motion - integrating motors and motion control components
- Inside job: ‘bottom-up’ nanomechanics
- Implantable devices powered by heartbeats
- Innovation in endoscopy - technological trends in visualisation
- Manufacturing with consistent quality
- Miniaturisation: a fantastic voyage
- Market snapshot: medical devices in China
- Microelectronic technology: IEDs spark into life
- Magnetic filtration: a new weapon
- Medical devices manufacturing under scrutiny
- Micro-management boost for medical devices development
- Medical supply chain: a matter of life and death
- Microfluidics: a crucial enabling technology
- Moving mountains: the medical device supply chain
- Material world
- Miniaturisation: doing more with less
- Machines for living: M2M communication
- Micro management
- Make your mark – the challenge of unique device identification
- Make the most of MIM
- Material gains: the evolution of textiles
- Motors keep hearts running: minimally-invasive micro-motors
- Moving up in the world: the challenges of manufacturing
- Mesh dangers: The health risks of transvaginal meshes
- Material good – innovations in silicone
- Model-based design
- Microfluidics reaches the mainstream
- Major laser – the miniaturisation of the machining process
- Perfect harmony
- Powering down
- Planet-friendly packaging
- PEEK performance: a next-generation biomaterial
- Patently obvious: the importance of a strict IP regime
- Pipeline for prosthetic heart valves
- Prosthetics: designed to fit – and fast
- Putting end-users first: creating friendly medical device packaging
- Power to the patient: the evolution of portable medical devices
- Prime mover – motion control in medical applications
- Plastic to smile about - thermoplastic polyurethane
- Package deal: positive packaging
- Packaging that puts on a show: innovation meets regulation
- Protecting endpoint security of medical systems
- Polymer microfluidics – technology and trends
- Partner up – building a global manufacturing network
- Press ‘print’ – the 3D printing revolution
- Remote possibilities - GlobaData
- Ray of hope on biomaterials degradation
- Reforming European medical technology regulation
- Ray of hope – sterilisation using X-rays
- Reset the pace – advances in electrophysiological technology
- Robotic hands make light work – high-speed assembly solutions
- Rays of hope: laser technology
- Remote control: home diagnosis technology
- Regulation and process planning: a package deal
- Robots of medicine: MRI and surgery combined
- Stay cool for injection moulding
- Stay connected: technology as the vanguard of preventative medicine
- Smooth operations
- Shine a light: the capsule endoscopy systems market
- Silicone valley: a biomaterial for med-tech
- Slippery when wet: medical device coatings
- Small is beautiful – advancements in micromoulding
- Smooth operators – the benefits of hydrophilic coatings
- Squeaky clean collagen – device-dependent sterilisation
- Silver lining - incorporating silver-based additives into silicone catheter tubing
- Sensitive to change – data-driven forecasting
- Step by step - the ReWalk motorised exoskeleton
- Slippery customers: the ins and outs of lubricious coverings
- Safety first: protective packaging
- Stay secure in the connected internet-of-things world
- Straight from the source: outsourcing and contract manufacturing
- Smart patch: the wearable insulin needle
- Source code – the outsourcing market in 2016
- Single life – advancements in novel polymers
- Sterility clinic – physical, chemical and radiation sterilisation
- See the light – the evolution of femtosecond lasers
- Standard procedure – the US premarket application process
- Spark of inspiration – the Spark spectral sensor
- Straight to the source – contract manufacturing
- Set the standard – efficiency vs the environment
- Streamlined logistics – the risks and rewards of outsourcing
- Sterilant showdown – sterilisation speed and safety
- To protect and serve
- The need for speed: the US race to improve device regulation
- Top ten green medical devices
- Top ten: upcoming products to benefit the heart
- The Brazilian trade up
- The FDA's view - Dr Jeffrey Shuren
- Take the green approach: drive growth with sustainable manufacturing
- The hospital lab comes to the patient's home
- Time to invest in Swiss medtech
- Third-party politics: outsourcing to cost-cut and reduce time to market
- Testing clarity: pyrogen and endotoxins
- The lowdown on logistics
- The future of medical device manufacture is automated
- The evolution of e-labelling in Europe
- Tomorrow’s world today: automating medical device manufacture
- To outsource or not to outsource?
- Talent pool – European med-tech manufacturing
- The fine print – the advent of additive manufacturing
- The resolution revolution – image clarity in healthcare
- Traceability at last – visibility across the supply chain
- The big squeeze – health technology assessments
- The shape of things to come – hyper-connected healthcare
- Tools for the job – analysing the global power tools market
- Two-way street – outsourcing injection moulding
- The war on bugs: successful sterilisation
- The coatings conversation: hydrophilic coverings
- The risk-reduction quest: printed circuit boards for implantable devices
- The land of lasers: ultrashort-pulse lasers for fabrication
- The smallest smart solution: nanotechnology for bone implants
- The superelastic solution: nitinol
- Turn a blind eye: building a bionic eye
- The future of implants: smart, electronic implanatables
- Toe the third-party line – outsourcing logistics
- Treatment revolution – bioelectronic partnerships
- Take your PEEK – the fall-out from the Invibio ruling
- The human touch – sensor and haptic innovations
- Things to come – maximising machine-to-machine technology
