Explore every episode of the podcast The MedTalk Podcast

In this episode, you can hear Olivia Friett, editor of Medical Plastics News talk to Elliot Justin, CEO at FirmTech, about sexual health wearables and how it can track multiple possible health conditions.

In this episode of The MedTalk Podcast, you can hear Olivia Friett, editor of Medical Plastics News talk to Murdoc Khaleghi, chief medical officer for Molecular You about the latest technology in AI driven blood testing and how it can detect early stages of diseases such as Alzheimer's.

Olivia Friett is joined by guests from recent and future episodes of the FemTech Series for International Women's Day to discuss the current landscape for women in medtech. The guests will cover the lack of female representation in medtech in both devices and executive positions, their personal experiences, what they hope the future holds for women in medtech, and more.

In this episode of The FemTech Series, Olivia Friett, the editor of Medical Plastics News is joined by Cat Kelly, chief operating officer at Naitive, to discuss how 75% of cases of osteoporosis, a condition that affects one in three women over the age of 50, go undiagnosed. OsteoSight Screenings, can screen x-rays that are taken for other reasons, for evidence of osteoporosis.

In this episode, you can hear Olivia Friett, editor of Medical Plastics News talk to Dearbhail Ormond, founder and CEO at Frendo, where they discuss how endometriosis affects women and how Frendo platforms can help understand the condition, make sense of symptoms, manage it, and more.

On this episode, you can hear Olivia Friett, editor of Medical Plastics News, talk to Fifi Kara, co-founder and CEO of Aster where they will discuss the all-in-one women’s health patient management platform.

In this episode, you can hear Olivia Friett, editor of Medical Plastics News talk to Sarah Nurgat, ThoughtSpark, about the underfunding in women's health and how we can assess research attention on conditions specific to women.

In this episode of the FemTech Series, Olivia Friett, editor of Medical Plastics News, talks to Laura Friedl-Hirst, managing director at LFH Regulatory about the regulations process for FemTech devices.

In this episode you can hear Olivia Friett, editor of Medical Plastics News talk to Sally Collins professor of obstetrics at University of Oxford a year on from winning the #MedTechExpo PITCH competition with the Oxford Neural Network Toolkit, which automatically measures the value, metrics, and vascularity of the placenta from a single 3D ultrasound scan.

Olivia Friett, editorial content producer for Medical Plastics News is joined by Tess Cosad, CEO and co-founder at Béa Fertility, to discuss fertility treatments and how their product that’s designed to help someone get pregnant without hormones and IVF can be used affordably at home. Tess Cosad discusses launching a femtech product in a highly regulated space, why fertility clinics are reluctant to innovate beyond IVF and how to build trust when introducing new treatments to market.

In this episode Olivia Friett, editor of Medical Plastics News, talks to Leeanne Baker, managing director at IMed Consultancy and Louise Ben-Nathan from LBN Innovations about smear tests and how the lack of comfort can make it an unenjoyable experience and is the reason many women don't go to their smear tests. LBN Innovations are working to create a less painful experience than with a standard speculum and Louise explains how they hope to eventually have smear tests that can be done completely in the comfort of a woman's home.

Olivia Friett is joined by Stiliyana Minkovska, founder and CEO of Matrix Health and Care, to discuss the current femtech climate and their product which is a digitally enabled, AI-supported pelvic assessment and diagnosis device, designed for self use.

In this episode, Olivia Friett, editor of Medical Plastics News, talks to Dr. Chung Looi, CEO of Ablatus Therapeutics about the affect fibroids has on women and how this can be treated with ablation technology.

For the first in the FemTech series on the MedTalk Podcast, Medical Plastics News editor Olivia Friett is joined by Nicola Thorn, CEO of AND Technology Research and Laurie Rowe, Founder and Director of Red Medtech. Thorn explains more about the Tento+ platform and what it does, the progress that has been made since its launch at Med-Tech Innovation Expo and Rowe explains the role she and Red Medtech played in the platform’s development. As well as delving deep into their relationship into working together on the Tento+ tool, the duo are asked a question that will become a feature of this series – is there enough technology to address women’s needs in the medical technology sector?

In this episode, Olivia Friett, the editor of Medical Plastics News, is joined by Esther Rodriguez Villegas, founder of Acurable, where they will discuss the AcuPebble device, the importance of wearables in the sector, how to ease the skepticism of consumer wearables, and the regulatory process.

In this episode, Olivia Friett, editor of Medical Plastics News, is joined by John Kawola, the global technology executive from Boston Micro Fabrication (BMF), to discuss the importance of 3D printing in the medical sector.

In this episode, you can hear Olivia Friett, editor of Medical Plastics News talk to Scott Nelson, FastWave Medical, about the complete start-up journey - covering the initial idea, looking into ventures, competing with bigger companies, fundraising, marketing and, of course, regulations!

In this episode Olivia Friett, the editor of Medical Plastics News, is joined by Adrian Jennings, chief product officer at Cognosos, to discuss how tracking equipment can save hospitals millions.

In this episode Olivia Friett, editor of Medical Plastics News talks to Amanda Philpott CEO and co-founder of eargym about the risks of hearing loss and how it can be prevented using auditory training.

In this episode of the MedTalk Podcast, Olivia Friett, editor of Medical Plastics News and Oliver Johnson, editor of Med-Tech Innovation News discuss what's going to be on stage at MTI Expo this year. With only three weeks to go until the show, make sure to register for FREE now: https://shorturl.at/mALX3

In this episode of the MedTalk Podcast, Olivia Friett, editor of Medical Plastics News, talks to Olivia Simpson, founder of SymbioTex, about how seaweed can be a more sustainable replacement to plastics. Simpson also talks about her journey as a start-up and shares advice for fellow start-ups.

In this episode Olivia Friett, the editor of Medical Plastics News, is joined by Renee Bailey, the senior manager of human factors engineering at BlackHagen, to talk about the importance of, and how to address the potential challenges of designing instructional materials.

Ian Bolland, former Med-Tech Innovation editor, talks to Eamonn McGowran associate director of regulatory affairs at Boyds about the relationship between Ireland and the UK, now that the two countries will be operating according to two different regulatory systems in a post Brexit world.

On this episode Ian Bolland, former editor of Med-Tech Innovation talks to Amy Russell, managing director, Russell Regulatory Consultants, and discusses her journey to becoming a regulatory consultant. We discuss the issues that she and medical device manufacturers are facing during a time of immense change and also get Amy’s thoughts on what she would like to see change in the approvals process and what improvements can be made.

On this episode of the Talking Regs series, Ian Bolland, former editor of Med-Tech Innovation News, talks to Fiona Maini, senior director - global compliance and strategy at Medidata Solutions about the regulatory landscape in the medical device and pharmaceutical sector.

Ian Bolland is joined by Mark Ratnarajah from C2AI, who talks about driving insights into practical healthcare solutions and how his role, background and experience has formed his views on how data and AI technology can aid the healthcare sector.

Ian Bolland is joined by Sam Stephens from TBAT Innovation and Alistair Wilson from Septest as the duo discuss the launch of the 2024 Innovation Challenge. Stephens explains how the challenge has grown as it enters its third running, while Wilson explains what the effect of being the second winner has had on his company, as well as explaining how his own personal experience is behind the Septest innovation.

Ian Bolland, group content manager at Rapid MedTech is joined by Simon Lord, head of innovation at the Alzheimer’s Society and George MacGinnis, health ageing challenge director at Innovate UK to discuss the Longitude Prize for dementia. The prize is awarded to the creator of a breakthrough technology that learns from a person living with dementia, adapting, and compensating for their condition as it progresses, and enabling them to continue living independently for longer. The winning solution will be a digital device or service designed for use by people living with dementia as the primary users. Ian, George and Simon discuss some research findings suggesting that two thirds of GPs want to prescribe technology for dementia patients to help them remain independent and live longer and that 87% believe their patients with early-stage dementia would benefit from technology designed for their condition. These and other topics, including challenging the stereotype of patients being tech averse, are discussed on this episode.

Ian Bolland and Olivia Friett caught up with Arjun Luthra, commercial director of BioInteractions at COMPAMED 2023. At COMPAMED, BioInteractions relaunched its Astute coating, its coating which can unclot blood. Luthra explains how the product fits into its range, how it’s different from its germ killing coating and the vision of the company to make healthcare settings and procedures as healthy and effective as possible – including one or two interesting metaphors to describe it. You can find out more about Astute here: https://biointeractions.com/products/astute/

Ian Bolland, group content manager of Rapid Medtech, is joined by Sylvia Smit from myMonX to discuss the role of artificial intelligence and their role in wearables. The duo also discuss Sylvia’s background and how she ended up working in the healthcare space following her previous work in the financial services sector.

Medical Plastics News editor Olivia Friett is joined by Michiel van den Berg, Director of Global Pharmaceutical Packaging Development at TekniPlex to discuss methods of recycling, legislation on the subject and what companies can do to improve their recycling rates.

Medical Plastics News editor Olivia Friett is joined by Philipp Prüße, Head of Sales of Dimensionics as they discuss how archimedes density determination works in medical technology.

Olivia Friett, editor of Medical Plastics News, speaks to David Regan, CEO of Sona Nanotech and Darcy Hart, Optics Engineering Director from Minnetronix Medical to discuss Sona’s Targeted Hyperthermia Therapy (THT) using gold nano rods, and how it differs from other therapies used to treat cancer.

For World Mental Health Day, Ian Bolland is joined by Dr Emilia Molimpakis, co-founder and CEO of Thymia, to discuss how the platform was developed, attitudes towards AI being used to try and treat mental health, and how a video game style technology can aid diagnosis and treatment.

Ian Bolland is joined by Rollie Carlson, CEO of Immunexpress as he provides some insight into the challenges of diagnosing sepsis and the technology that is being developed to tackle it. Included in this episode is Carlson explaining how the company is developing an early detection diagnostic for sepsis.

Olivia Friett, editor of Medical Plastics News, is joined by Konrad Brodaczewski, COO and Dr Andrzej Decewicz, product development manager at Grena, as they discuss both the business and medical aspects of developing medical devices and bringing them to market.

Recorded earlier this year, Medical Plastics News Editor Olivia Friett is joined by David Gray, Head of Content for British Plastics & Rubber and Interplas Insights to preview Interplas 2023. They discuss what's on offer for those operating in the medical device sector at this year's show, as well as the new and special features as Interplas marks 75 years! Interplas takes place on 26-28 September at the NEC, Birmingham. For more information on Interplas, and to register, visit: www.interplasuk.com.

Ian Bolland is joined by Professor Sul Mahmud, the director of healthcare of BT Health to discuss how the company supports the way the NHS works, new solutions that are being introduced as well as the use in technology within the sector and the possible changes that will entail.

Olivia Friett is joined by Mick Fry, an engineer at Minnetronix Medical to discuss how to reduce the systemic complexity of medical devices. Fry shares the facts on where and when medical devices become overly complicated, the best time to find opportunities to reduce complexities and how to highlight solutions upfront. They also go into detail on how not dealing with complexities in the right way can create setbacks at the engineering, procurement, quality, manufacturing and assembly stages.

Live from Med-Tech Innovation Expo 2023 (recorded 7th June), Ian Bolland is joined by Laurie Rowe from Red Medtech, Laura Friedl-Hirst from LFH Regulatory and Fiona Maini from Medidata to discuss the latest regulations and challenges facing medical device companies both in the UK, and those trying to access the UK market. The panel begins by discussing an article from Laura which you can read here: https://www.med-technews.com/medtech-insights/medtech-regulatory-insights/the-uk-regulatory-framework-where-are-we-now/ Find out more about Med-Tech Innovation Expo on www.med-techexpo.com. Find out more about our speaker's companies here: Red Medtech: https://redmedtech.co.uk LFH Regulatory: https://lfhregulatory.co.uk Medidata: https://www.medidata.com/en/

Ian Bolland is joined by Sam Stephens, Director of TBAT Innovation to discuss the company's Innovation Challenge which aims to support businesses and people with great ideas, and bring them to market. Stephens talks us through the type of support The Innovation Challenge can offer to applicants, with the help of the inaugural winner from 2022, Srijan Jindal from PhenUTest Diagnostics who explains the difference the scheme has made to him and his company. Applications close on 31st August. For more information visit: https://tbat.co.uk/the-innovation-challenge/

After launching the new Tento+ dashboard at Med-Tech Innovation Expo 2023, Dr Nicola Thorn, CEO of AND Technology Research had a brief chat with Ian Bolland about the product and where the idea came from. Find out more about Tento+ by visiting www.tentoplus.com

Editor of Medical Plastics News Olivia Friett and Group Content Manager of Rapid Medtech Ian Bolland sit down for a brief discussion that gives you a whistle-stop tour of the Med-Tech Innovation Expo's conference offering for 2023. This features sessions from the Office for Life Sciences, Johnson & Johnson MedTech, the Department of Health and Social Care, Department for Business and Trade, Boston Scientific and many more! Register for FREE for Med-Tech Innovation Expo 2023, taking place at the NEC, Birmingham on 7-8 June at www.med-techexpo.com

Ian Bolland is joined by Kevin Brownsill, head of technical: learning and development at Intertronics. They discuss the different challenges faced when manufacturing in the medical industry compared to other markets, the roles adhesives can play in medical device manufacturing, as well as looking ahead to Kevin's presentation on Day Two of Med-Tech Innovation Expo: The Latest in Medical Adhesives. Register for Med-Tech Innovation Expo for FREE at www.med-techexpo.com

Ian Bolland is joined by Lorna Green from LYVA Labs to discuss the work it has done with life sciences companies in the Liverpool City Region, the range of innovations it has come across, how it assesses the new ideas that come their way, and whether the focus on regional investment and accelerators is the way forward.

European Pharmaceutical Manufacturer's Rebekah Jordan and Med-Tech Innovation's Ian Bolland are joined by Richard Williams from Healome Therapeutics discuss the challenges of going from a university spin-out to a successful company, and how to go against the conventional business model in biotech.

Ahead of her seminar at Med-Tech Innovation Expo, Jasmin Hounsell, founder and CEO of Evolene, joins Ian Bolland to discuss how companies can market their medical technology innovations. They discuss how this can go hand-in-hand with working to gain regulatory and clinical approvals as Jasmin previews her session which will take place on 7th June: Preparing for Clinical Market Adoption: Key Steps to Success. Register for your free pass to Med-Tech Innovation Expo at www.med-techexpo.com.

Previewing her talk at Med-Tech Innovation Expo, Ian Bolland is joined by Sarah Denham, Principal Consultant at Wilmington Healthcare as they discuss what's needed to bring a good innovation or medical device to market by thinking about what else that needs to be considered for it to be adopted by healthcare systems such as the NHS.

To mark International Women’s Day, Ian Bolland is joined by Rhian Owen from law firm Slater Heelis, to discuss the progress, or indeed in some cases the lack of progress, that has been made, when it comes to representation of women in life sciences and the corporate world. They also discuss the barriers that women still face including investment and representation as key decision makers at boardroom level.

Recorded at MD&M West in Calfornia, Medical Plastics News editor Olivia Friett, along with group portfolio sales manager Caroline Jackson, is joined by Arjun Luthra, commercial director at BioInteractions and Aaron Johnson, vice president of marketing and customer strategy at Accumold. Luthra announces some exciting news from BioInteractions’ latest study while both he and Johnson provide some insight when it comes to working in the UK health market from the point of view of companies from both the United States and the United Kingdom in the medical device supply chain. They also discuss the importance of business partnership between the two countries in an increasingly globalised economy; and working with media and event partners to spread the word of their innovations across the globe.