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November 25, 2020 | By Bret Kevan Purcell, Ph.D., M.D., COL (Ret.), Medical Corps., U.S. Army

Managing COVID-19: How Medical Advancements Bring More Options for Patients and Doctors

A review of new, successful treatment options for the novel coronavirus.

October 12, 2020 | By Maria Fontanazza

Computer Modeling and Simulation Helps MedTech Developers Bring Innovation to Reality

No longer just “the big company advantage,” Arlen Ward discusses how CM&S is an accepted and viable device industry path to market for large and small medical device makers alike.

September 2, 2020 | By David Franta, Del R. Lawson, Ph.D.

Four Tips for a Productive Supplier Partnership

Managing how a material can affect a device’s success starts with a strong, collaborative relationship with your materials supplier, which can help prevent a myriad of issues throughout the development of medical devices.

August 25, 2020 | By Justin Williams

How Covid-19 Could Usher in the Cure for a Sick Healthcare System

Monitoring patients through distributed technology will be key to restoring its health.

July 13, 2020 | By Del R. Lawson, Ph.D.

What Patients Expect Out of Their Wearable Medical Devices

User needs and expectations continue to advance. Medical device technology needs to keep pace. For a successful design, take the following requirements into consideration.

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Roadmap to bringing your medical device to marketRoadmap to bringing your medical device to market

The applications for devices using microfluidics are varied with examples such as pathogen detection, chronic disease monitoring, cancer screening, genetic biomarker detection, food and environmental monitoring. Selecting a design partner and material supplier you can trust to deliver consistent materials, evolve as the market changes, and that you can rely upon to solve a variety of challenges is crucial to success. Read more.

State of Skin: Elevating the Science of SkinState of Skin: Elevating the Science of Skin

The skin is a dynamic organ, reflecting who we are in the presence or absence of a health condition or disease. As the largest organ in the body, skin is critical to the maintenance of our bodies and our health. For medical device engineers, skin should never be an afterthought. Instead, it should be a core consideration for the use of any medical device that interacts with or adheres to the skin. Read more.

Solving for Skin:
3M touches virtually every part of your life. Yet you’re probably only aware of a fraction of those touch-points. With medical dressings that help wounds heal faster, reflective materials that make our roadways safer, and even stethoscopes that listen to astronauts’ heartbeats in space, our people and technology make the impossible, possible. Every day we apply our science to make your life better.


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3M touches virtually every part of your life. Yet you’re probably only aware of a fraction of those touch-points. With medical dressings that help wounds heal faster, reflective materials that make our roadways safer, and even stethoscopes that listen to astronauts’ heartbeats in space, our people and technology make the impossible, possible. Every day we apply our science to make your life better.


We’ll stick with you:
With over 55 years in the medical adhesive business, 3M is uniquely qualified to help you choose the right skin adhesives and navigate your way to market with confidence. 3M Medical Materials and Technologies helps healthcare manufacturers design and build more reliable, innovative and feature-rich medical devices.

Contact 3M for Your Free Samples

Contact 3M for Your Free SamplesAdhesives play a critical role in the success of a medical device, whether it’s holding the device together or adhering it to the wearer’s skin. But with so many adhesive products available, it can be a challenge for design engineers to know which one is right for their project. To help bridge this critical gap, 3M developed a “Find My Adhesive” product selector tool to help make medical adhesive selection a simpler process.
Start exploring the tool today.

3M Learning Center

We understand skin.
We understand skin.

If you’re designing a medical device that needs to stick to skin, there is a lot to consider. Watch now to learn about adhesive considerations when designing wearable medical devices.


Which adhesive is right for you?
Which adhesive is right for you?

Adhesives play a critical role in the success of a medical device, whether it’s holding the device together or adhering it to the wearer’s skin. But with so many adhesive products available, it can be a challenge for design engineers to know which one is right for their project. To help bridge this critical gap, 3M developed a “Find My Adhesive” product selector tool to help make medical adhesive selection a simpler process. Start exploring the tool today.

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Adhesives Engineered to Drive Cost Out:
3M Precision Cutting Adhesive Technology

Accelerating Device Development Against Current Product Development, Regulatory Landscape

Three Mistakes That Can Kill Your Time to Market

Three Prototyping and Pilot Production Strategies to Cut Weeks from Product Launches

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