Big news in the medical device world : U.S. medical device maker  Medtronic  said on Sunday it had agreed to buy  Covidien  for $42.9 bill...

Medical devices are largely designed in the United States and while the US has a decent size medical device manufacturing industry, it has b...

QMED details how one medical device company is dealing with the 2.3% tax on medical devices imposed as part of Obamacare : To cover reduced...

Penelope Trunk has an interesting post on Jake Breeden's  Tipping Sacred Cows  which  lists sacred cows in corporate life that we shou...

The medical device tax is a 2.3% tax on medical devices, everything from bed pans to surgical tools.  It was signed into law as part of the ...

Great essay by Paul Graham at Y Combinator , the right way: The way to get startup ideas is not to try to think of startup ideas. It's...

Working in medical device R&D its important to keep an eye on your competitors.  Marketing is too busy working on presentation font size...

St. Jude has recently announced approval for its optical coherence tomography / fractional flow reserve (OCT / FFR) system called ILUMIEN  ...

I can't get enough of Seth Godin , I particularly liked this line from a recent post : Work for a coal mine and make minimum wage. Disc...

Google Health is apparently shutting down, too soon, we're just getting ramped up in fact.  Although they didn't seem to embrace th...

MedCity News has an article on J&J exiting the coronary drug eluding stent business:  End of J&J stent business carries lessons for ...

From a recent FDA press release : The FDA is helping advance the development of an artificial pancreas system... I think they should be mo...

Boston Scientific is getting a bit of attention for an IVUS catheter Class I recall , to be honest a smaller company probably wouldn't...

I've been working on lean product development lately, but haven't made much progress.  For the most part we're able to turn over...

For a new device we spent a bit of time working on "Latex Free" labeling.  From the FDA point of view ( 801.437 ), the key point...

Many companies perform an annual review of every dimension or 100% inspection on all received parts. While this may serve as a halfway decen...

A volcano in Iceland slowing shipments to and from Europe, since we ship everything by plane now. Inventory costs money but so do lost sale...

California is set to vote on marijuana legalization later this year. I'm pretty much a live and let live guy, but how is this going to...

More and more I'm learning one of the keys to making good devices that meet quality and regulatory standards is finding people who will ...

As a "project engineer" I've come to appreciate why larger companies put R&D in a different building- so they can get some...