Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. In recent years, pharmaceutical companies have broadened their horizons, moving beyond drug ...

Medical device design and development is a process that helps to ensure devices that go to market are safe, effective, marketable, and profitable. The process is a blueprint of the phases needed to ...

Increasingly popular home medical devices can be a huge help for Medicare beneficiaries (particularly ones with chronic conditions) and their family caregivers. The devices offer vital health ...

The burgeoning field of Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) offers opportunities for innovation in healthcare monitoring and delivery through mobile apps. Regulatory focus by the FDA on "device ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer the future of healthcare—it’s already here. AI-driven medical devices are diagnosing diseases faster than doctors, guiding surgical procedures with precision ...

Microplastics seemingly are everywhere, from the bottom of the ocean to the highest peaks, in products that we drink and eat, and in our bodies, including in brain tissue and testicles. One recent ...

The Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA's) device center launched an initiative to promote at-home medical device development with a focus on health equity in at-home care. It spent $1.2 million on ...

The established environmentalism mantra of “reduce, re-use, recycle” opened the door for medical device manufacturers to roll out recycling programs under the guise of sustainability efforts. But, in ...

Americans are becoming more familiar with the right to repair movement that is shaking up industries from agriculture to consumer electronics. The notion is that consumers should be empowered to hire ...