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November 18, 2022

Supply chain shortages, inflation creating problems for device manufacturers

Medical device manufacturers are feeling the pinch of supply chain disruption and economic inflation, as they struggle to keep up with greater demand created by patients who put off necessary procedures and implants during the pandemic. Specialized plastics, metals and resins used for making devices are now in short supply, while electronic prices have soared, according to The Wall Street … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Inflation, Manufacturing, Medical device, Medical Devices, Supply Chain

July 16, 2020

Penn State University develops disposable stethoscope

[Reprinted: Healthcare Business News, 7/14/2020] Students and faculty at Penn State University have teamed up to develop disposable, single-patient stethoscopes for front-line healthcare workers caring for COVID-19 patients. The university’s college of engineering collaborated with Penn State Health and the Center for Medical Innovation at Penn State College of Medicine to create the device, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Coronavirus, COVID-19, Medical device Tagged With: #coronavirus, #COVID-19initiative, COVID-19

April 23, 2020

UWI Engineering Team Breathing Life Into Broken Ventilators

[Reprinted: The Gleaner, 4-23-2020] A team at Mona-Tech Engineering Services has embarked on a mission to repair ventilators and biomedical equipment in the island’s public health sector free of charge as the island tackles the coronavirus pandemic. The deadly SARS-CoV-2 virus, which surfaced in China late last year sweeping the rest of the world, causes the COVID-19 respiratory disease which, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Coronavirus, COVID-19, Medical device, Medical Equipment, Pandemic, UWI

April 13, 2020

Caribbean nations can’t get U.S. masks, ventilators for COVID-19 under Trump policy

Caribbean nations struggling to save lives and prevent the deadly spread of the coronavirus in their vulnerable territories should not look to the United States as they seek to acquire scarce but much-needed protective gear to fight the global pandemic A spokesperson from U.S. Customs and Border Protection confirmed to the Miami Herald that the agency is working with the Federal Emergency … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Caribbean, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Medical device, Pandemic

February 19, 2020

New testing device to alleviate the misery for Jamaican & Caribbean persons with allergies

An allergy testing machine, the only medical equipment of its kind on the island, is now available to serve the needs of Jamaicans suffering from illnesses related to undiagnosed allergies. “The machine, called the Allergy Explorer (Alex), will service Jamaica and the rest of the Caribbean as there is no other machine like this one in the Caribbean that is able to do allergy blood test,” … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Allergy, Caribbean, Jamaica, Medical device

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