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By Joseph M. Saunders, Founder and CEO, RunSafe Security A medical device cleared today may stay in clinical service for 15 years or more, but the software inside it does not always age well. New vulnerabilities get discovered, open source components fall out of date, and attack techniques keep improving. Frontier AI tools now make… The post How to Secure a Medical Device You Can’t Patch appeared…
Quasar Medical said it has purchased the Medres Nitinol Design and Development Center near San Diego, California. Medres established the 10,000-square-foot Carlsbad site in 2024 and expanded it in 2025. It has dedicated nitinol operations, engineering talent and manufacturing capabilities. Quasar Medical is a contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) that specializes in minimally…
Johnson & Johnson MedTech unveiled its Ottava surgical robotics system at the July 2026 Society of Robotic Surgery (SRS) annual meeting after winning FDA de novo authorization. “These teams have built a category-defining, soft-tissue surgical robot, and our regulatory pathway is a testament to that. There is no precedent here,” J&J MedTech Global Head of… The post J&J’s robotics R&D head discusses…
Tim Patz envisions a future where continuous monitoring follows the patient “from admission or the point of surgery, all the way to discharge.” Becton, Dickinson and Co. (BD), where Patz is worldwide president of the Advanced Patient Monitoring business, is one step closer to that future after developing a platform enabling noninvasive continuous blood pressure… The post How BD wants to advance…
A research team led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst is reworking a proven treatment to develop a new way to prevent bladder cancer recurrence without removing the organ or aggressive repeat treatments. The National Institutes of Health recently awarded the team a five-year grant of up to $3.45 million to develop the novel ablation… The post Researchers are reworking an ablation…
Zeus PFX Flex Sub-Lite-Wall catheter liners are now the first medical device components to be certified by Intertek as free of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). The news comes as medical device developers look to reduce their use of these “forever chemicals” in their products due to increasing scrutiny from regulators and customers. While the… The post Zeus wins PFAS-free certification…
The MDO Min-Vasive Medtech webinar series returns Aug. 18-20, 2026, and we’re kicking things off with medical device industry legend Manny Villafaña as our first guest. Registration is free and open now here for all three sessions, including two more speakers we’ll announce very soon. Villafaña founded several device developers that were acquired by major… The post We’ve got a medtech legend for…
This article is part of Qosina’s “The Engineer’s Guide” recurring series covering practical component selection guidance for medical device design engineers. By Stephanie Alwais, Qosina A design engineer working on a wearable drug delivery device recently told me she had been speccing the same Luer lock configuration her team had used for five years, assuming… The post The Engineer’s Guide to Luer…
NEWS RELEASE: TE Connectivity introduces 3D printing process to streamline catheter manufacturing GALWAY, Ireland — TE Connectivity, a world leader in connectors and sensors, has introduced a new automated 3D printing process to manufacture the catheter shafts it supplies to medical device manufacturers. It will replace a higher-cost, predominately manual assembly process commonly used across the……
Researchers at Northwell Health’s Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research have completed a first-of-its-kind comprehensive human vagus nerve anatomical map, a development that could accelerate next-generation bioelectronic medicine and neuromodulation therapy innovation. “This dataset represents a major step forward in bioelectronic medicine, offering the most detailed anatomical reconstruction…
