At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, a batch of 400,000 gowns flown into the UK from Turkey were rejected after failing to meet National Health Service (NHS) standards. This high-profile recall highlighted the pitfalls of manufacturing personal protective equipment (PPE) that doesn’t comply with regulatory frameworks. Here Stephane Gobron, engineering consultant and freelance medical writer at Kolabtree, has explored three ways to m...

The founder of Apple, Steve Jobs, once said, ‘Great things in business are never done by one person; they’re done by a team of people’. This is true now more than ever as medical device manufacturers and companies from a range of industries work together in the fight against COVID-19.

A recent report by CB Insights shows that healthcare artificial intelligence (AI) startups have raised $4.3bn since 2013, topping all other industries. Kolabtree, the online platform for freelance scientists, has released an infographic highlighting startups that have developed innovative AI-assisted products that are advancing healthcare.