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  • Two professionals wearing festive holiday hats and plaid shirts sit in a snowy winter-themed setting. The text overlay reads "Santa's Health: A Medical Device Makeover," highlighting a playful discussion on medical innovations and healthcare improvements.

    In this festive episode of Bio Break, Joris and Nick bring a holiday twist to medical device innovation by discussing how modern technology could improve Santa’s health. Using a lighthearted analogy, they explore the challenges of managing conditions like diabetes and how advancements in drug delivery devices, such as Ozempic injection systems, could make a difference.

  • Two professionals wearing plaid shirts and microphones engage in a discussion in a laboratory setting. The text overlay reads "Designing SAFE Drug Delivery Systems," emphasizing the focus on precision and safety in medical device design.

    In this episode of Bio Break, Joris van der Heijden and Nick Allan explore one of the most critical challenges in drug delivery device design: shear stress. When designing systems for biologics and gene therapies, avoiding shear stress is essential to ensure the viability and activity of biomolecules like proteins, antibodies, and viruses.

  • Medtech Entrepreneur Webinars

    2024 Medtech Entrepreneur Webinars feature both standard expertise webinars and livecast recordings from Playbook events in Vancouver, Canada and Newport Beach, California.

  • Collage of photos that represent the top blogs from 2024.

    2024 Top Medical Device Blogs written in 2024 and the 10 most read evergreen blogs during 2024 include three new authors, two group blogs and five articles from blogging veterans.

  • Top Medical Device Videos

    2024 Top Medical Device Videos features a round up of most viewed medical device videos from StarFish Medical includes a mix of new videos released in 2024 along with evergreen videos sharing medical device expertise. 

  • Two professionals in plaid shirts and microphones sit in a discussion within a laboratory setting. The text overlay reads "Innovative Olfactory Drug Delivery: Bypassing the Blood-Brain Barrier," highlighting a focus on advanced medical techniques.

    In this episode of Bio Break, Joris van der Heijden and Nick Allan explore one of the most innovative approaches in drug delivery: olfactory drug delivery. This cutting-edge method targets the olfactory region of the nose, offering a direct pathway to deliver drugs into the brain while bypassing the blood-brain barrier. Unlike traditional intranasal delivery, this highly specialized technique uses neural pathways to achieve precise and effective results.

  • Insulin Pen and needle

    A combination product is a product which comprises of two or more items which are covered by different regulations, for example a pharmaceutical and a medical device. As they are covered by two different regulatory structures, then more care needs to be taken when determining the regulatory strategy as it will be more complex.

  • Cartridge and blue medicine inhaler in a room front view

    This blog discusses the combination product regulation basics and explains how these types of products are regulated in the US and EU.

  • Nick Allan wearing a handmade turkey-themed hat speaks in a laboratory setting. The text overlay reads "Turkey Tradition Gone Wrong? The Hidden Lesson," highlighting a humorous and insightful discussion about traditions and their underlying purpose.

    In this episode of Bio Break, StarFish Medical experts Joris van der Heijden and Nick Allan celebrate Thanksgiving by sharing a heartwarming and hilarious family tradition: preparing the perfect turkey. Through this tale of generations working together to create the iconic holiday meal, they uncover a surprising lesson that applies to medical device development and procedural design.