The MedTalk Podcast The MedTalk Podcast

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 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 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.

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.

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.