Portal Instruments, Inc. articles
Do you know what it’s like to wake up in a different stranger’s house every morning? To open your eyes and immediately feel extremely uncomfortable, alarmed, unsafe, out of place, lost, dizzy, like your world is the most upside-down it’s ever been? Do you remember what it was like to be a kid tagging along to the grocery store with your parents? One second you’re strolling the aisles mesmerized by this new, exciting, and
The current paradigm of injectable drug delivery has stagnated since the early 2000s. Despite recent innovations, like the launch in Europe of the first electromechanical reusable and connected auto-injector (UCB’s CIMZIA ava Connect® in early 2021), almost all new biologic drugs are launched with specific and undif
Twelve years ago Jody started getting unexplained pain, swelling and redness in her eyes after having her first child. Shortly after, she was diagnosed with Scleritis¹, a serious eye disease that is often associated with an underlying autoimmune disorder. Fast forward to today, Jody has started taking weekly injections to ease her symptoms. We s
According to the CDC, nurses are affected by needle stick injuries more than any other single professional group.¹ We sat down with a nurse who works in a hospital located in the Greater Boston Area to discuss instances of needle stick injuries. To keep the identity of the nurse secret, we have used an alternate name Jane.
Innovations and Iterations
In the consumer tech world, iterations happen very fast, though most inventions are not ‘one and done’ masterpieces: the Dyson cyclone vacuum cleaner made 5,127 prototypes. In the medical device world, development takes longer because of the appropriate and necessary regulations and need for safety. Using an agile approach, but with safety and reliability in mind, Portal has made trem