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The development of medical devices is a complex and highly regulated process that requires meticulous attention to detail and a focus on ensuring patient safety.

Elena Guss Tarazona, a consultant engineer at Springboard has been involved in helping the charity with the design and delivery of a solution to help amputees ride a bike. Here, she gives an update on the project.

Inhalation devices play a crucial role in drug delivery, especially for treating respiratory conditions such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). However, these devices also face several challenges that can impact their effectiveness. Here are just three key challenges that we have highlighted.

The European Heart Rhythm Association’s annual meeting brings together leading scientists, healthcare professionals, and the MedTech industry from across the world to discuss the latest innovations and trends in heart rhythm management. This year was the 20th anniversary and Springboard was there in person to share our expertise in ablation technologies and implantable devices.

In this article, we consider examples of nature’s solutions to four challenges faced by microneedles for drug delivery. For each challenge, the authors explain how a natural organism has tackled it and what lessons may be directly applied to microneedle design.

Ethan Miller and Kristien De Clercq discuss recent advancements and current challenges in the field of ophthalmology, including the trend towards preservative-free multidose delivery systems, delivering smaller topical volumes with increased drug efficacy, slow-release injections for delivery to the posterior of the eye and the exciting field of gene therapy.

The theme for International Women’s Day this year focusses on gender equality. We want to take a look at how user experience design can play an important role in making sure products are designed with gender equality in mind.

As few incisions and as small as possible is the overwhelming trend in current surgical treatments, a trend strongly driven by robotic-assisted surgery but also by the rapid improvements in ablation technologies and their delivery methods. By delivering high levels of energy — thermal, electrical, mechanical — ablation causes local cell death in order to meet a therapeutic need. With indications spanning cancer, irregular heartbeats (atrial fibrillation), nerve pain, and chronic bronchitis, it…

UX design to influence a change in behaviour from the user and how that can be used to improve adherence to medication and encourage more sustainable behaviours.

It is a nightmare scenario: you have a great product and commercial opportunity, but you are going to be late to launch because of delays in the transfer to manufacture. It is stressful, the boss is hounding you, and your focus is stolen away from all the other important things you need to be doing. If this sounds like you, or you are worried it might be you, you are not alone. Transferring your design is a daunting task and any misstep causes del ays and increased costs. Moving a design into…