Medical Design articles from January 2007

Medical Design archives from January 2007

Hey Buddy, can you spare a machinist?(MEDICALEdge)
January 1, 2007... Manufacturers often put a shortage of machinists near the top of the list of problems limiting company growth. Sadly, machining as a career has been falling out of favor for decades. The trend toward off-shoring has even soured many high-school...

MD & M Heads West.(MD & MWEST PREVIEW)
January 1, 2007... Medical Design and Manufacturing West will be held February 13 to 15 at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, Calif. This year's conference includes five colocated shows: Electronics West, Pacific Design & Manufacturing, WestPack, PLASTEC...

Polyolefin microplate sealing tapes.(MD & MWEST PREVIEW)
January 1, 2007... The series 9795 3M advanced polyolefin medical microplate sealing tapes feature low-tack-to-touch adhesive, low auto-fluorescence, and superior optical properties. The tapes are a good choice for visual microscopic analysis. They combine a...

Silicone gel adhesives for direct skin contact.(MD & MWEST PREVIEW)
January 1, 2007... Scapa silicone gels are available in a variety of breathable thermal copolymer films and non-woven materials. Skin applications include neonatal care, wound care, medicaldevice attachment, and hypertrophic scarring reduction. The products wash...

Colorless cyanoacrylates cure quickly.(MD & MWEST PREVIEW)
January 1, 2007... Rubber-toughened Loctite 435 Prism instant adhesive improves cure speed for end uses that require flexibility and resistance to humidity and chemicals. The colorless, surface-insensitive cyanoacrylates are for the assembly of difficult-to-bond...

Tubing cutter asks: how many and how long?(MD & MWEST PREVIEW)
January 1, 2007... WC601B automatic wire and flexible tubing cutters easily and accurately cut wire, tubing, and sleeving to a programmed length and the right number of pieces. Nine variable feed rates let the operator choose the correct one for a given material...

Medtronic Inc.(TOP 21 OEMs)
January 1, 2007... The company, established by Earl Bakken and the late Palmer Hermundslie in 1949, found success after developing the first wearable external cardiac pacemaker in 1957 and manufacturing the first reliable long-term implantable pacing system in...

Abbott Labs.(TOP 21 OEMs)(Company overview)
January 1, 2007... A THUMBNAIL HISTORY OF ABBOTT LABS Over a century ago, 30-year-old Wallace C. Abbott, a physician and drug store proprietor, founded the Abbott Alkaloidal Co. Using the active or alkaloid part of a medicinal plant, he formed tiny pills,...

Baxter International.(TOP 21 OEMs)(Company overview)
January 1, 2007... BAXTER'S EARLY YEARS The company was founded in 1931 as the first manufacturer of commercially prepared intravenous solutions. Over the next two years, the company distributed products manufactured at a Los Angeles firm owned by physician...

Boston Scientific.(TOP 21 OEMs)
January 1, 2007... THE EARLY YEARS Boston Scientific's history began in the late 1960s when cofounder John Abele acquired an equity interest in Medi-tech Inc., a research and development company focused on developing alternatives to traditional surgery....

Pfizer.(TOP 21 OEMs)
January 1, 2007... A BRIEF HISTORY OF PFIZER With $2,500 borrowed from Charles Pfizer's father, cousins Charles Pfizer and Charles Erhart, young entrepreneurs from Germany, in 1849 purchased a modest brick building on Bartlett and Tompkins streets in the...

Beckman Coulter Inc.(TOP 21 OEMs)
January 1, 2007... A BRIEF HISTORY OF BECKMAN COULTER The company's origin is in 1935 as National Technical Laboratories in Pasadena, Calif. and was renamed Beckman Instruments in 1950. By 1954 the company moved its headquarters to Fullerton, Calif. and in...

Becton Dickinson.(TOP 21 OEMs)
January 1, 2007... A BRIEF HISTORY OF BECTON DICKINSON Maxwell Becton and Fairleigh Dickinson first met on a sales trip in 1897. Months later, they decided to go into business together, sealing their partnership with a handshake that began the medical-device...

Siemens Medical Solutions.(TOP 21 OEMs)
January 1, 2007... Siemens Medical Solutions is headquartered in Erlangen, Germany, and Malvern, Pa. Company products include diagnostic imaging systems, therapeutic equipment, hearing instruments, and more. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Malvern, Pa. ...

B. Braun Medical Inc.(TOP 21 OEMs)
January 1, 2007... A BRIEF HISTORY OF B. BRAUN Julius William Braun opened his apothecary in Melsungen, Germany in 1839 and since then, the company has seen a history of notable medical product developments. A few firsts include a sterile re-sorbable suture...

Cardinal Health Inc.(TOP 21 OEMs)(Company overview)
January 1, 2007... Cardinal Health was founded in 1971 as Cardinal Foods, a distributor in Columbus, Ohio. The company went public in 1983. Over the next ten years, it acquired more than a dozen drug distributors in the U.S. By 1987, the pharmaceutical segment...

Steris Corp.(TOP 21 OEMs)(Company overview)
January 1, 2007... Steris provides infection and contamination-prevention products and services. The company also develops programs that educate groups on regulatory, safety, and technical issues in the healthcare industry. A BRIEF HISTORY OF STERIS ...

Respironics Inc.(TOP 21 OEMs)
January 1, 2007... Respironics designs, develops, manufactures, and provides respiratory medical products for use in home, hospitals, and emergency medical situations. The company is organized into groups and business units. For example, the Sleep and Home...

Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.(TOP 21 OEMs)
January 1, 2007... Bristol-Myers Squibb's key businesses are pharmaceuticals, Mead Johnson Nutritionals for infants and toddlers, ostomy-care products, and products for medical imaging such as injectable suspensions and xenon gas. The company believes in being a...

Bayer Healthcare.(TOP 21 OEMs)
January 1, 2007... Bayer HealthCare, an independent operating subgroup under the Bayer AG umbrella, is divided into five groups: Animal Health, Consumer Care, Diabetes Care, Diagnostics, and Pharmaceuticals. The company had 9.4 billion euros in sales in 2005 and...

Ethicon.(TOP 21 OEMs)
January 1, 2007... Ethicon is a Johnson & Johnson company with roots that stretch back to the 19th century. In 1949, Ethicon was formally established as a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson and began to diversify its product line to meet the expanding demands and...

Johnson & Johnson.(TOP 21 OEMs)
January 1, 2007... In 1876 Robert Wood Johnson heard Sir Joseph Lister, the noted English surgeon, speak about the need for protecting surgeries from airborne germs. Johnson decided to create a new type of surgical dressing: ready-made, sterile, wrapped and...

Hill-Rom Inc.(TOP 21 OEMs)
January 1, 2007... Hill-Rom says it helps healthcare professionals safely deliver effective and efficient care to patients in acute, long-term, and home-care environments. The company provides a wide range of products including patient-care beds, stretchers, and...

Tyco Healthcare.(TOP 21 OEMs)(Company overview)
January 1, 2007... Tyco was founded in 1960 when Arthur J. Rosenburg opened a research laboratory to do experimental work for the government. He incorporated the business as Tyco Laboratories in 1962, and changed its focus to high-tech materials science and...

3M.(TOP 21 OEMs)
January 1, 2007... The company was founded in 1902 but its first healthcare product, a surgical drape, was not introduced until 1948. An autoclave tape, the second product, was introduced in 1950 and marked 3M's first entry into the sterilization assurance...

Dentsply Int.(TOP 21 OEMs)
January 1, 2007... Dentsply, the largest manufacturer of dental prosthetics and consumable dental products in the world, has factories and divisions in Europe, Asia, and North and South America, and sales-distribution facilities around the globe. Dentsply has...

St. Jude Medical.(TOP 21 OEMs)(Company overview)
January 1, 2007... Since 1976, St. Jude Medical has been a pioneer in cardiovascular medical technology. Founded as a heart vale company, St. Jude Medical has broadened its portfolio through internal development and acquisitions. Today they offer products for...

Manufacturers' Directory.(Directory)
January 1, 2007... To help you contact key suppliers of a particular product or service quickly, the following Manufacturer' Directory also contains complete telephone numbers of the main offices. Listings in bold indicate the advertisers in edition. A ...

Product directory.(Part 1)(Directory)
January 1, 2007... ADHESIVES Adhesive-Curing Systems American Ultraviolet Co., Lebanon, IN CONTECH Medical, Inc., Providence, RI Dymax Inc., 318 Industrial Ln., Torrington, CT 06790, 860-482-1010, FAX: 860-496-0608, Email: info@dymax.com ...

Product directory.(Part 2)(Directory)
January 1, 2007... Bird Precision, One Spruce St., Waltham, MA 02454, 781-894-0160, 800-454-7369, FAX: 781-894-6308, Email: sales@birdprecision.com Brennan Industries Inc., Solon, OH Cable Mfg. & Assembly Co., Bolivar, OH Clippard Instrument...