The perfluorocarbon coatings could reduce infections and blood clots in devices made with materials like PTFE, silicone and polyurethane.

Polymer platform sets a new standard for catheter design with PTFE-like performance and expanded material flexibility ORANGEBURG, S.C., Jan. 29, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Zeus, a global leader in advanced ...

Worldwide changes in catheter system design are urgently needed to prevent serious complications caused by accidental injection of drugs into the wrong location, according to a special editorial in ...

New product line extends options to better meet patient needs. YORK, Pa., March 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- HR HealthCare is deepening its investment in the urological care category with the continued ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Safe Medical Design, Inc. (SMD), a medical device company dedicated to developing safe and cost-effective solutions in urology, today announced that the U.S. Food and ...

A Senior Design team at Stevens Institute of Technology is working to alleviate pain and other complications that often arise during thoracic surgeries. Five undergraduate Biomedical Engineering ...

New twist SPIRAL is a thin, flexible tube designed to release medication at several points inside the brain. (Courtesy NYU Abu Dhabi) Researchers in the United Arab Emirates have designed a new ...

Researchers from Boston Children's Hospital, the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) ...

Insulated microdiameter wire designs can be manufactured reliably down to sizes of around 0.001 in. (0.026 mm). Most applications currently use diameters within the range of 0.0025–0.0075 in. (0.064–0 ...

Zeus Industrial Products’ StreamLiner™ series offers the thinnest PTFE catheter lining yet, making use of the latest advancements in extruded tubing to enable revolutionary catheter design. The ...

Anesthesiologist Jimmy Rawls, MD, recently collected a $5,000 prize from the Charleston (S.C.) Metro Chamber of Commerce for his design for a new intravenous catheter, according to a Charleston ...