MassDevice.com +5 | The top 5 medtech stories for November 15, 2016

Say hello to MassDevice +5, a bite-sized view of the top five medtech stories of the day. This feature of MassDevice.com’s coverage highlights our 5 biggest and most influential stories from the day’s news to make sure you’re up to date on the headlines that continue to shape the medical device industry. Get this in your inbox everyday by subscribing to our newsletters.   5. Report: Q3 medical device recalls hit highest point since at least 2000 Medical device recalls have reached their highest point since 2000, according to a new report from Stericycle‘s ExpertSolutions business. Numbers for med device recalls rose 29% over the previous quarter, according to the report, up to 339. Recalled devices increased 187% to approximately 116 million, the highest number since Q3 of 2012. Read more 4. Light-driven motor powers nanorobot drug delivery system Researchers proposed a nanosized, light-driven motor that is powerful enough to carry a certain load and possible act as a drug delivery system, according to the study published in the Journal of Chemical Physics. “The unprecedented characteristics of dipole photomotors based on semiconductor nanoclusters offer the prospect of more than just addressing a certain scarcity of the translational photomotors family,” lead researcher Leonid Trakhtenberg of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology said in prepared remarks. “These devices could actually be applied wherever rapid nanoparticle tr...
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