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Union City, Calif. – October 19, 2020 – Mizuho OSI, the pioneer of orthopedic surgical tables and pressure management solutions, was named the recipient of the Advanced Manufacturing award during the 8th Annual East Bay Innovation Awards virtual presentation on October 15.

Announcement

CUR’s First Virtual Posters on the Hill Showcases Undergraduate Research to Policymakers, Scholars, and the Public

April 16, 2020 sarah Jonas Alzheimer's Disease, Antibiotics, Archaeology, Biology (Bacteriology, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology), Chemistry, Engineering, Environmental Science, Geosciences, Higher Education, History, Humanities, Mathematics and Computer Science, Medical Device, Physics and Astronomy, PLANT SCIENCES, Political Science, Presidential History, Social Science, stem, Undergraduate Education, Undergraduate Research

On April 21, students will participate in the 2020 Posters on the Hill event. This year, because of COVID-19 challenges, undergraduate researchers and faculty mentors from institutions such as Butler University, California State University–Fullerton, and University of Chicago will share their research online.

Policy

Incorporating Patients’ Perspectives in the Medical Device Regulatory Process

April 8, 2020 sarah Jonas HEOR, ISPOR, Medical Device, medical device approval, Medical Devices, patient preferences, PPI, Value in Health

Value in Health announced today the publication of an article highlighting US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) guidance and lessons learned regarding the use of patient preference information for FDA decision making about medical devices.

Feature

U-led human factors consortium improves medical device design

March 30, 2020 sarah Jonas Houston, Human Factors, Medical Device, Rice University, Texas, University Of Utah, UTAH

A University of Utah-led consortium to improve the design of medical devices welcomes Rice University as its newest partner. The Human Factors MEdical DevIce Consortium (hfMEDIC) serves as a consulting resource for medical device manufacturers looking to improve usability and safety of their products.

Research Results

Patient-friendly brain imager gets green light toward first prototype

March 10, 2020 sarah Jonas Medical Device, quantum sensors

Sandia National Laboratories has received a $6 million grant from the the National Institutes of Health to build a prototype medical device that would make magnetoencephalography (MEG) — a type of noninvasive brain scan — more comfortable, more accessible and potentially more accurate.

Announcement

ISPOR-FDA Summit 2020 Will Focus on the Use of Patient-Preference Information in Medical Devices

January 28, 2020 sarah Jonas 0 Comments Food And Drug Administration, HEOR, ISPOR, Medical Device, Medical Devices

ISPOR—the professional society for health economics and outcomes research, announced that it will be holding a joint ISPOR-FDA Summit, “Using Patient-Preference Information in Medical Device Regulatory Decisions: Benefit-Risk and Beyond,” on March 31, 2020 in Silver Spring, MD, USA.

Announcement

LAWRENCE LIVERMORE RESEARCHERS CAPTURE FOUR AWARDS FOR TOP INDUSTRIAL INVENTIONS

November 7, 2019 sarah Jonas 0 Comments Medical Device, Software

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers have garnered four awards among the top 100 industrial inventions worldwide.

Research Tip Sheet

Cyp2F2-Mediated Lung Cancer, Rapid Risk Assessment of Color Additives, and More Featured in November 2019 Toxicological Sciences

November 1, 2019 sarah Jonas 0 Comments Additives, Cardiac, Drug Discovery, e-cigarette, Electronic Cigarettes, Medical Device, Mouse Model, Society Of Toxicology, Tobacco, toxicological sciences, TOXICOLOGY, Zebrafish

Toxicological Sciences continues to deliver cutting-edge research in toxicology in the November 2019 issue. This issue features research on computational toxicology and databases, developmental and reproductive toxicology, and more.

Video Only

Protecting the most vulnerable patients during anesthesia

October 11, 2019 sarah Jonas 0 Comments Engineering, Medical Device, Pediactrics

Pediatric anesthesia is a stressful and critical environment. Dr. Bilen-Rosas wants to help clinicians recognize dangerous sedation pathologies sooner. She teamed up with the Morgridge Fab Lab to create a new medical device that alerts clinicians to compromised airways.

Feature

Brain implant restores visual perception to the blind

September 23, 2019 sarah Jonas 0 Comments California, Innovation, Medical Device, Medical Technology, Neurosurgeon, Vision Loss

Seven years ago, Jason Esterhuizen was in a horrific car crash that destroyed his eyes, plunging him into total darkness. Today, he’s regained visual perception and more independence, thanks to an experimental device implanted in his brain by researchers at UCLA Health.

Feature Expert

Getting New Medical Treatments to Patients Can be Harder Than Landing on Mars

September 18, 2019 sarah Jonas 0 Comments Drug Development, Drugs, Healthcare, Medical Device, Medicine, Pharmaceticals

It takes about 10 years and $100 million to get a new medical device to market – $1 billion for a new drug. Most new solutions fail. The biggest foils are not the science or pre-clinical trials but the lack of finances, market miscalculation, bad business models, and regulatory snags. They can all be overcome.

Announcement

American Association of Critical-Care Nurses selects University of Massachusetts-Amherst’s Giuliano as 2020 Distinguished Research Lecturer

August 14, 2019 sarah Jonas 0 Comments Critical Care, Medical Device, Nursing

Nurse scientist Karen Giuliano is being honored by AACN for her body of research, which focuses on the intersection of clinical needs and medical technology use, development and innovation. She is joining the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, where she will have a joint position between its new Institute for Applied Life Sciences and the College of Nursing.