Investors are backing neurostimulation device company Stimdia Medical Inc. with $16 million, in the first tranche of a series B offering expected to total $30 million. The Minneapolis-based company is developing a device that stimulates the phrenic nerves in a patient’s neck to exercise the diaphragm during mechanical ventilation and minimize ventilation-induced diaphragmatic dysfunction (VIDD).
Infervision Medical Technology Co. Ltd. received approval from China’s NMPA for its radiological computer-assisted triage and notification software device Inferread CT Stroke. This is the first class III approval that the firm obtained in the cerebro-cardiovascular field. Class III approvals are for high-risk medical devices.
Researchers have discovered how the tau protein turns from a normal to a disease state in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and have shown how the discovery could potentially deliver a therapeutic target.