Researchers from Shandong University and affiliated organizations reported the discovery and preclinical characterization of novel 68Ga-labeled PSMA-targeting tracers for the diagnosis of prostate cancer.
Guardant Health Inc.agreed to pay more than $900,000 to settle allegations that the company’s human resources office hired a relative and a friend of a physician who persuaded the company to make the hires in a quid pro quo for orders of Guardant’s tests. The U.S. Department of Justice said the penalties could have been much greater but for the company’s cooperation in the investigation, which disclosed that at least one of these hires was not qualified for the position.
Quantalx Neuroscience Ltd. filed for protection of a system and method for the diagnosis of normal pressure hydrocephalus and prediction of patient response to ventriculoperitoneal shunting surgery treatment. The U.S. FDA granted the company’s Delphi-MD breakthrough device designation for these indications in May 2023.
Universität Bonn has divulged P2X purinoceptor 4 (P2RX4; P2X4) antagonists reported to be useful as diagnostics and for the treatment of pain, inflammation, cancer, stroke, multiple sclerosis, atherosclerosis and obesity.
The U.S. Medicare outpatient draft for 2025 is rich with applications for pass-through payment, but the draft also would boost payment for radiopharmaceuticals, a proposal that drew the applause of industry and physicians alike. The outpatient draft for CY 2025 tackles the implications of some new technologies for the pass-through payment program, but nestled in the draft rule is a proposal to pay separately for diagnostic radiopharmaceuticals.
Lunglife AI Inc. is looking for a strategic partner to help get Lunglb — its non-invasive test for the early detection of lung cancer — into the market and to the patients who need it. The company’s artificial intelligence-supported blood-based test, which identifies indeterminate lung nodules, will be game changing for early lung cancer diagnosis, Paul Pagano, Lunglife CEO, told BioWorld.
The U.S. Medicare outpatient draft for 2025 is rich with applications for pass-through payment, but the draft also would boost payment for radiopharmaceuticals, a proposal that drew the applause of industry and physicians alike.
AI-focused medical diagnostics company Spectral AI Inc. is collaborating with burn wound therapy company Polynovo Ltd. to test limited deployment of Spectral’s Deepview system for predicting burn healing in Australia.
The first patenting from South Korea’s Neudive Inc. sees its CEO, SungJa Cho, applying for protection of the company’s mobile digital social therapy device, NDTx-01, which helps build the social skills of neurodiverse individuals, and in particular children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder and social communication disorder.
Know Labs Inc.’s radiofrequency sensor accurately classified blood glucose levels more than 93% of the time, a study published in Diabetes Technology & Therapeutics found. That’s good news for people with diabetes, who may be able to use the non-invasive technology to avoid not just the needle sticks that used to be the hallmark of diabetes management, but even the microneedles used in current continuous glucose systems.
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