Will 2017 Be A Good Year For Medtech In The Us Healthcare Industry? Signs Point To Yes.

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Looking At The Uncertain Healthcare Landscape Under The New Trump Administration, Predicting Future Healthcare Markets Seems Like An Exercise In Magic 8-Ball Prediction. You Know The Toy That Answers Any Yes Or No Question With Some Ambiguous Answer Like, “Luck Is On Your Side.”

The Key To Creating Value From A Medical Device Idea? It’s YOU.

Most physician inventor entrepreneurs tend to be “idea people” and often their business experience is in practice management, while their intellectual property development experience is more limited. 

This often leads to a kind of paralysis as an “idea person” fears losing their idea by working with others with business development experience. By placing too high a priority on protecting and monetizing the idea too quickly, the entrepreneurs often stall out long before they can turn their idea into reality.

What spinal cord injuries most benefit from FES-cycling therapy?

Among people with spinal cord injury, who is most likely to benefit from functional electrical stimulation (FES) therapy? That’s a great question that many researchers are asking in regard to a wide range of spinal cord injuries.

In a small study of 14 paraplegics wishing to participate in sports, researchers found that people whose spinal cord injury occurred above T-12 were more likely to benefit from FES-cycling therapy, and those with traumatic injury as opposed to infectious injury were the most likely to respond to FES-cycling therapy. (published site)

FDA Approves OSSDsign’s 3D Printed Cranial Implant

The FDA has approved OSSDsign’s new cranial implant that uses an innovative and patented composite material printed to exact patient needs with a 3D printer.

The Uppsala, Sweden-based designer, manufacturer and distributor constructs individually designed and printed cranial implants using the patient’s computer tomography (CT) information. The OssDsign system combines advanced computer-assisted design (CAD) with a proprietary calcium phosphate composite as a 3D printing material, which is reinforced by a titanium skeleton. (published site)

Is Minimally Invasive Surgery Right for You?

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You may have seen the ads – happy dog brings his leash to a man sitting in a chair who starts to get up, but sits back down in obvious pain. The dog then goes on his walk with the daughter, while the narrator encourages viewers to stop putting off surgery. (published site)

WBC meeting roundup

The WBC2016 10th World Biomaterials congress held in Montreal, Canada, May 17-22 was a good meeting with respect to nanotubes. Actually, over a dozen papers were presented related to TiO2 nanotubes. There were as many presentations discussing nanotexturing as any other single topic. (published site)

How Does Your Lower Back Pain Affect Your Sex-Life?

That’s a question your specialist should ask, but often doesn’t if you are an older patient with low-back pain, according to a report presented last year at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons meeting.

Specifically, the researchers asked, 1,235 study participants aged 63 to 68, “In the past week, how has pain affected your sex life?” (published site)