Researchers from the Yale University filed for protection of a multi-modal approach to predict the progression risk of a heart condition using artificial intelligence algorithms applied to cardiovascular videos.

Lumos Diagnostics Inc.’s stock shot up 162% Wednesday morning on news that it signed a pivotal commercial deal with Phase Scientific International Ltd to expand its reach into the U.S. market for its Febridx rapid, point-of-care test for bacterial infections.

Three months earlier than an expected update on a deal, Becton, Dickinson and Co. reported its biosciences and diagnostic solutions business will combine with Waters Corp. in a transaction valued at $17.5 billion. The resulting enterprise will operate under the Waters name and use its trading symbol (NYSE:WAT). Waters CEO Udit Batra will head the combined company.

Companies in the life sciences must tread carefully when it comes to the Anti-Kickback Statute, but a recent advisory opinion by the Office of Inspector General lends little clarity on the point.

The med tech patent wars opened a new front in the region of screening tests for colorectal cancer, pitting Exact Sciences Corp., of Madison, Wisc., against St. Louis-based Geneoscopy Inc.

Researchers from IMEC, the Netherlands’ OnePlanet Research Center in Wageningen, filed for protection of an inexpensive, highly miniaturized ingestible device that may be used for remotely activatable sampling, gut health monitoring and drug delivery.

Accunea Ltd.’s bioanalysis technology, Renosure, can measure creatinine clearance in machine perfused kidneys, according to data presented at the recent European Society of Organ Transplantation 2025.

Abbott Laboratories grabbed attention in early June with its announcement of a partnership with Tandem Diabetes Care Inc. to develop a multianalyte sensor for people with diabetes that would measure ketones as well as glucose.

The U.K. government will soon unveil its 10-year health plan to transform the National Health Service. The aim is to tackle the problems in the 76-year-old system and make it fit for the future. The aim is to tackle the problems in the 76-year-old system and make it fit for the future.

Classically, the diagnosis of type 1 diabetes comes after a patient presents with unexplained weight loss, extreme thirst and frequent urination and a lab test reveals off-the-charts blood glucose levels. At the 85th Scientific Sessions of the American Diabetes Association in Chicago, researchers highlighted two options – a blood test and a machine learning model – for diagnosing the disease much earlier in its progression, when damage to the pancreas' beta cells could be slowed.