Navigating the FDA approval process can be challenging. Standards provide a roadmap for best practices, risk mitigation, and ...

5 Pandemic-Era Medical Device Trends that Have Vanished in 2025 When the pandemic hit, there were a lot of changes for medtech. But some of those changes were temporary. A look at the major trends of ...

Medtech Salary Survey 2021: Full Report Download MD+DI's report on medtech salaries in research and development, product design engineering, management, quality control, regulatory affairs, and ...

The Earliest Medical Device Innovators 1. René Laennec (1781-1826) French physician René Laennec is credited with inventing the first stethoscope in 1816. It was pretty much just an ear trumpet ...

2015 MDEA Finalists: StabiLink MIS Spinal Fixation SystemThe StabiLink MIS Spinal Fixation System, manufactured by Southern Spine LLC (United States), is a less invasive option to pedicle screws for ...

Over the years, medical device design experts have contributed to MD+DI in a variety of ways, including participation in the judging of the Medical Design Excellence Awards (MDEAs) and speaking at our ...

Trivia Tuesday: A 1969 advertisement for battery manufacturer P.R. Mallory (now known as Duracell) inspired what medical device invention?

Will Medtech See a Mega-Merger in 2025? Will we see huge deals in 2025? MD+DI takes a look at the current M&A climate to predict if and when medtech will see the next mega-merger.

FDA Recall Roundup: September 2024 The month of September included FDA recalls for companies such as Abbott, Medtronic, and B. Braun Medical.

Ensuring accuracy by force measurement and material testing is a necessary requirement in most every industry, especially orthopaedic and medical parts manufacturing where the highest quality control ...

Aside from the unpredictability of COVID-19 surges, two issues are clearly top of mind for most executives in the medical device industry: the supply chain crisis and hospital staffing shortages.