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Data underscores benefits of Biotronik’s ultrathin strut Orsiro DES

February 25, 2020

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. – Berlin-based Biotronik SE & Co. reported new data from the BIOFLOW-V trial showing that its Orsiro ultrathin strut drug-eluting stent (DES) continued to outperform Abbott Laboratories’ Xience DES through three years’ follow-up.

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Cardiovalve wins FDA breakthrough nod for tricuspid valve replacement technique

February 24, 2020

By Meg Bryant

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NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. – Cardiovalve Ltd., of Or Yehuda, Israel, scored a double hit with the U.S. FDA, winning a breakthrough device designation for its transcatheter tricuspid valve replacement system, as well as approval to conduct an early feasibility study in tricuspid regurgitation (TR).

Medaccred aims to boost industry standards

February 20, 2020

By Meg Bryant

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Medical device companies are seeking to reduce product defects and increase patient safety with an industry-managed program that focuses on final product quality via oversight of the most critical manufacturing processes. Modeled on a 30-year-old aerospace industry program called Nadcap, Medaccred brings device manufacturers and suppliers together to define accreditation for special processes.

AAAS 2020: Progress in Human Cell Atlas unveiling underlying mechanisms of disease

February 19, 2020

By Nuala Moran

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SEATTLE – As it enters its third year, the Human Cell Atlas project has mapped 100 million of 100 billion cells, and by comparing gene expression profiles of normal and aberrant cells and building networks of cellular interactions, is leading to breakthroughs in understanding of disease at a molecular level.

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Researchers trace COVID-19’s family tree to battle outbreak and ‘infodemic’

February 18, 2020

By Nuala Moran

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SEATTLE – Tracing the family tree of COVID-19 through its evolving DNA sequence makes it possible to disprove many false claims circulating on social media about the novel coronavirus, and, in particular, that it was generated in a covert biological weapons program.

MD&M West

Experts make case for agile-lean product development

February 13, 2020

By Meg Bryant

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ANAHEIM, Calif. – Most medical device manufacturers follow a traditional, linear, task-driven approach for product development. Switching to a knowledge-driven approach, called agile-lean, may yield better results. That was the takeaway from a talk at MD&M West.

MD&M West

Panel dials down the hype around AI to focus on its promise

February 12, 2020

By Meg Bryant

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ANAHEIM, Calif. – Is artificial intelligence (AI) ready for prime time in health care? What’s hype and what’s real? That’s the question that was posed to an expert panel at MD&M West.

MD&M West

Keeping pace with the digital revolution while searching for value

February 11, 2020

By Meg Bryant

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ANAHEIM, Calif. – The digital health wave is impacting seemingly every aspect of health care, from digital therapeutics where software is the therapy to powerful analytics that bring actionable insights to aid in a clinical situation.

Precision Medicine World Conference

Verily highlights diabetes care, Project Baseline even as related partnerships are restructured

January 24, 2020

By Stacy Lawrence

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SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Diabetes seems likely to be the first area to really show concrete products and results for the ambitious Verily Life Sciences, which is the med-tech business of Mountain View, Calif.-based Google parent Alphabet Inc. However, its two major diabetes partners both have been rethinking the relationship.

Precision Medicine World Conference

AI, data science companies strut their stuff at PMWC

January 23, 2020

By Holland Johnson

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SANTA CLARA, Calif. – While many of the presentations at the Precision Medicine World Conference revolved around clinical studies and their promise for future breakthroughs in health care, a continuous stream of companies made their pitches for translating these studies into actual products that can benefit patients now.

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Data underscores benefits of Biotronik’s ultrathin strut Orsiro DES

Cardiovalve wins FDA breakthrough nod for tricuspid valve replacement technique

Medaccred aims to boost industry standards

AAAS 2020: Progress in Human Cell Atlas unveiling underlying mechanisms of disease

Researchers trace COVID-19’s family tree to battle outbreak and ‘infodemic’

Experts make case for agile-lean product development

Panel dials down the hype around AI to focus on its promise

Keeping pace with the digital revolution while searching for value

Verily highlights diabetes care, Project Baseline even as related partnerships are restructured

AI, data science companies strut their stuff at PMWC

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