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EDITOR'S PAGE

Thinking Outside the Dish: The genomics revolution requires collaboration

MEDICAL PLASTICS

Plastics Machining: Understanding the Basics
Thomas Rohlfs

Knowing the issues unique to machining plastic components enables designers and engineers to make better choices and develop better devices.

Sidebar: Delrin: Are You Getting the Real Thing?

IVD SUPPLEMENT

New Standard Accelerates Point-of-Care Device Integration
Brian D. Handspicker

The industry's goal of full connectivity between point-of-care devices and information systems seems within reach.

Sidebars: Standards Development Organizations | An Instoduction to XML

STERILIZATION

Estimating the Effects of EtO BIER-Vessel Operating Precision on D-Value Calculations
Gregg A. Mosley

FIRST PERSON

New Product Development: Putting Strategies into Practice

Paul Levesque, a principal at the management consulting firm MedStar Partners, identifies some key aspects of medical product development.

WASHINGTON WRAP-UP

Abbott Reinspection Raises Old Issues, New Questions
James G. Dickinson

Despite two years under a consent decree and intensive efforts to comply, Abbott Laboratories has found itself once again in FDA's doghouse.

R&D DIGEST:

• Innovative Sensor Could Offer New Biomedical Applications
• Using Gene Therapy to Reduce Restenosis
• Artificial Intelligence Used to Diagnose Colon Tumors
• In Search of an Earlier Diagnosis of Osteoarthritis
• New Software Used to Design Multitask Surgical Minitools
• Can an Implanted Chip Record Sensations?

BULLETIN BOARD

New biomaterials could regenerate and repair human tissuesStaple line reinforcement material provides operative efficiency. Cyanoacrylate adhesives provide high cure speeds, and more!

NEWS & ANALYSIS

• Combination Product Reform to Speed Reviews, Increase Accountability
  
• MEDTEC Takes Stuttgart by Storm
  
• Advertising Group Seeks to Make Primary Prevention a Household Phrase
  
• Industry Urged to Take Broader View of Transatlantic Trade
  
• In Memoriam: William J. Feingold, 1929–2002
  
• Award to Honor Humanitarian Efforts in Healthcare
• WMTS Initiation Date Approaching