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  • Industry Events Schedule Disrupted Due to Coronavirus—Full Event List

    Industry Events Schedule Disrupted Due to Coronavirus—Full Event List

    The medical device manufacturing industry has seen the postponement or cancellation of a number of upcoming events.
    Sean Fenske, Editor-in-Chief 03.30.20
  • The Medtech Supply Chain and COVID-19

    The Medtech Supply Chain and COVID-19

    How are service providers and component suppliers adjusting to life during a pandemic to ensure they maintain quality?
    Online Exclusives Sean Fenske, Editor-in-Chief 03.30.20
  • How Are MPO’s Top 30 Addressing COVID-19?

    How Are MPO’s Top 30 Addressing COVID-19?

    J&J identifies vaccine candidate for human trials; Abbott develops five-minute diagnostic test.
    Online Exclusives Sam Brusco, Associate Editor 03.30.20
  • Packaging & Sterilization
    Mike on Medtech: EtO Sterilization Concerns

    Mike on Medtech: EtO Sterilization Concerns

    Mike Drues and Sean Fenske discuss the controversy surrounding the most commonly used sterilization method for medical devices—EtO.
    Sean Fenske, Editor-in-Chief 03.30.20
  • Diagnostics
    New Test Can Diagnose COVID-19 in as Little as Five Minutes

    New Test Can Diagnose COVID-19 in as Little as Five Minutes

    Abbott Laboratories will be making ID NOW COVID-19 tests available next week and expects to ramp up manufacturing to deliver 50,000 tests per day.
    Abbott Laboratories 03.28.20
  • Trump Signs $2 Trillion Coronavirus Stimulus Package

    Trump Signs $2 Trillion Coronavirus Stimulus Package

    Legislation requires the strategic national stockpile to include certain medical devices necessary for diagnosing and treating COVID-19.
    Staff and Wire reports 03.27.20
  • 3D/Additive Manufacturing
    3D Printing Helps Retrofit and Build Ventilators

    3D Printing Helps Retrofit and Build Ventilators

    Students, staff, and faculty address one of the key challenges of the COVID-19 outbreak.
    Videos UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering
  • Digital Health
    9 Ways AI Will Disrupt Healthcare in the Next 5 Years

    9 Ways AI Will Disrupt Healthcare in the Next 5 Years

    The technology could impact areas from stroke detection to mental health to access to specialized care.
    Online Exclusives Scott Molina, IT Consultant 03.26.20
  • Doctors Construct Makeshift Ventilators for COVID-19 Fight

    Doctors Construct Makeshift Ventilators for COVID-19 Fight

    University of Minnesota physicians collaborate on low-cost solution to help treat patients.
    Videos University of Minnesota
  • 3D/Additive Manufacturing | Machining & Laser Processing
    DIY Medical Devices, Protective Gear Fuel Battle Against COVID-19

    DIY Medical Devices, Protective Gear Fuel Battle Against COVID-19

    Faculty and students at Georgia Tech have designed a quick and easy way to manufacture face shields.
    Videos Georgia Tech College of Engineering
  • Masimo to Buy Ventilation Firm TNI medical

    Masimo to Buy Ventilation Firm TNI medical

    TNI's softFlow technology provides respiratory gases to spontaneously breathing patients suffering from serious pulmonary conditions.
    Business Wire 03.20.20
  • Spectrum Plastics Group Mold Making and Tooling

    Spectrum Plastics Group Mold Making and Tooling

    From prototype tool to high volume class 101
    Videos
  • A Note to MPO Readers

    A Note to MPO Readers

    Ensuring the disruption to all of our lives doesn’t impact the delivery of news and information to you.
    Online Exclusives Sean Fenske, Editor-in-Chief 03.17.20
  • 4 Medical Manufacturing Trends Driving Growth in 2020

    4 Medical Manufacturing Trends Driving Growth in 2020

    Medical device manufacturing is poised for 5.6 percent growth each year between 2017 and 2023.
    Online Exclusives Megan Ray Nichols, Science Writer; Editor, Schooled By Science 03.17.20
  • Diagnostics
    FDA Will Allow States to Authorize COVID-19 Tests

    FDA Will Allow States to Authorize COVID-19 Tests

    Laboratories developing tests can engage directly with the appropriate state authorities.
    U.S. Food and Drug Administration 03.17.20
  • Neurological
    Axonics Challenges Medtronic

    Axonics Challenges Medtronic's Sacral Neuromodulation Patents

    Contests validity of each of the patents Medtronic alleged to be infringed by Axonics.
    Business Wire 03.16.20
  • Senators Introduce Bill to Address Medical Supply Vulnerabilities

    Senators Introduce Bill to Address Medical Supply Vulnerabilities

    Bill would study and develop action plan to address U.S. dependence on foreign-made medical equipment and boost domestic production and supply.
    Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Dick Durbin (D-IL) 03.12.20
  • Spectrum Plastics Group Catheter Assembly

    Spectrum Plastics Group Catheter Assembly

    Featured is our Jersey Shore facility.
    Videos
  • Software & IT
    The Benefits of a Data-Driven Approach to the Patient Experience

    The Benefits of a Data-Driven Approach to the Patient Experience

    Data can be extremely valuable for individualizing communication with patients, and effectively targeting prospective consumers.
    Online Exclusives John Nash, Chief Marketing & Strategy Officer, Redpoint Global 03.12.20
  • FDA Suspends Foreign Inspections

    FDA Suspends Foreign Inspections

    The agency has postponed most foreign inspections through April, effective immediately.
    Food and Drug Administration 03.10.20