A new cutting-edge blood-based biomarker test developed by researchers at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology can detect early Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and mild cognitive impairment (MCI), with accuracy rates surpassing 96% and 87% respectively, and could be a game changer in detecting and treading early AD.

South Korea’s MFDS gave regulatory clearance to SK Inc. C&C’s artificial intelligence (AI) solution to diagnose cerebral infarction called Medical Insight+ Brain Infarct on Feb. 22, as a class III device.

Unless there’s a last-minute meeting of the minds, it looks like any extension of the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) five-year intellectual property waiver for COVID-19 vaccines will be shelved, at least for now.

X-trodes Ltd. has received U.S. FDA 510(k) clearance for its Smart Skin solution, a wireless wearable technology that allows for medical-grade electrophysiological monitoring in clinics and at home. The company believes that the Smart Skin technology, which captures signals from the brain, heart, eyes and muscles, has the potential to significantly improve patient care.

Shionogi & Co. Ltd. is partnering with Fronteo Inc. to develop artificial intelligence (AI)-based diagnostic tools to diagnose mental and neurological disorders more accurately.

If Freenome Holdings Inc.’s $254 million funding round is a sign, the capital markets for med-tech may finally be thawing. The cancer diagnostics company’s latest cash infusion brings its total funds raised to date to more than $1.3 billion. Freenome co-founder and Chief Product Officer Riley Ennis told BioWorld the company’s success in raising cash in a challenging market was attributable to the “perfect storm of huge unmet need and the opportunity that we have, given the treatment advancements.”

Holliston, Mass.-based Harvard Apparatus Regenerative Technology Inc. (HART) is seeking patent protection for synthetic structural support devices for use in esophageal tissue regeneration, in which the synthetic structural supports have been seeded with cells (e.g., mesenchymal stem cells) to form a cellular sheath on the supports’ outer surfaces.

A team of Johns Hopkins University researchers have filed for patent protection of a system and method to determine patient prioritization for triage during mass trauma events. The system and method may continuously monitor patient parameters to determine patient prioritization over time, which may improve the speed, quantity, and efficacy of life-saving interventions.

Toku Inc. recently obtained CE and UKCA marks for its artificial intelligence (AI) technology, Clair, which evaluates the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) using retinal images captured during an eye exam.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has released a sweeping plan that is designed to help manage vector-borne pathogens, such as the Zika virus, with the ultimate goal of reducing the related disease burden to zero.