Medical device firm US Endoscopy has released a new device for the retrieval of foreign objects from patients’ gastrointestinal tracts.The Mentor, Ohio-based company says its new Raptor grasping device combines the functionality of two devices into one, offering “strength and precision” in retrieving foreign bodies, according to a statement from US Endoscopy.The Raptor device is [...]

Medical device company US Endoscopy‘s urology division has released a new product, a biopsy and retrieval forceps device.The Mentor, Ohio-based company’s Alligator forceps provides the grip needed to safely and securely collect a biopsy or foreign bodies from the bladder or kidney, according to a statement from the company.Last year, the company formed its US [...]

US Endoscopy has purchased a 70,000-square-foot manufacturing facility near its Mentor, Ohio, headquarters.

All of a sudden, Mentor, Ohio, has become a hot spot for job growth in medical device and equipment companies.STERIS Corp. (NYSE: STE), the maker of contamination-control technologies, as well as sophisticated operating room equipment, is closing a leased facility in Erie, Penn. and plans to transfer most of the 240 jobs to Mentor as [...]

US Endoscopy‘s chief operating officer hopes city and state economic development programs will help his company to keep innovating.The Mentor, Ohio, company makes endoscopic products aimed at unmet needs in the burgeoning market for minimally invasive surgical procedures of the digestive system. It offers about 140 products — many of them accessories that enable diagnosis [...]

This post is sponsored by Plastics in Medical Devices.Cleveland soon will host the North American debut of an established European conference focused on how plastics are enabling the design and development of the next generation of advanced medical devices. The event kicks off April 12 with a pair of concurrent afternoon workshops at LaCentre in [...]

US Endoscopy, the endoscopy device design and manufacturing company in Mentor, has released the Entrada colonic overtube, which offers more control during colonoscopy in patients with tortuous sigmoid looping.

US Endoscopy has launched another product — a portable colon irrigation system called Velocity.

US Endoscopy has introduced the Talon grasping device to help doctors extract food and other objects from patients’ digestive tracts and airways. The Talon device, which is used with an endoscope, was designed to mimic the grasping abilities of an osprey.

It looks like something your kids may have done in their pre-kindergarten arts and crafts lesson. But US Endoscopy is high on the Boost, which promises to stabilize the head for a series of specific procedures using an endoscope, a tube-like device that slides into the human body to explore areas within. The company says it’s never found a bigger unmet need than the one the Boost fills.