Med-tech happenings, including deals and partnerships, grants, preclinical data and other news in brief: Avinger, Australian Biotechnologies, Elixirgen, Flowmetric, Onegevity, RenalytixAI, Ricoh, Sherlock Biosciences, Shockwave Medical, Spartech, The Commons Project, Theracell, Tolo Biotech, Tufpak.
Regulatory snapshots, including global submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Abbott, Caretaker Medical, Viveve.
With hospitalizations rapidly rising as the COVID-19 pandemic washes across the world in a winter wave, researchers are racing to develop treatments that protect the increasing number of ventilated patients. One option focuses on protecting muscles critical to breathing.
CAJICA, Colombia – Chembio Diagnostic Systems Inc., a point-of-care diagnostic company focused on infectious diseases, received the approval from Anvisa, the Brazilian health care surveillance agency, to distribute its tests in the Latin American market. The approval adds yet another test to the hundreds already approved in Brazil, where the market for such tests is quickly getting crowded sending prices down. Brazil is one of the countries most affected by COVID-19 with almost 6 million cases and 166,000 deaths, the third highest number of cases in the world.
Regulatory snapshots, including global submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Boston Scientific, Etiometry, Modulim, Nico.Lab, Roche, University of California.
The latest global regulatory news, changes and updates affecting medical devices and technologies, including: FDA slaps two companies for illicit COVID offerings; FDA approves new PET imaging agent for prostate cancer.
Salient Bio launched a robotics-driven PCR test for COVID-19 with 99% for use in mass testing for the virus. The company says the "fastest ever" test notifies users of test results in less than a day and is priced to be cost effective for businesses. Salient plans to expand the number of tests utilizing the modular diagnostics platform in 2021 to include a range of pathogens. Even with vaccines on the horizon in the coming months, the London-based company expects brisk demand for its product.
Med-tech happenings, including deals and partnerships, grants, preclinical data and other news in brief: Adapthealth, Aerocare Holdings, Ams, Bayer, Biotricity, Biovo Technologies, Blackford Analysis, Boston Scientific, Change Healthcare, Decision Diagnostics, Eir Healthcare, Electrocore, Ers Genomics, GE Healthcare, Health Decisions, Healthstream, Illumina, Irhythm Technologies, .lumen, Meso Scale Diagnostics, Nanostring, New England Home Medical Equipment, Nuance, Nvidia, Oncobay Clinical, Pieriandx, Premier Medical Laboratory Services, Serb, Stark International Lux, TCA/Genetworx Labs, The iQ Group Global, Vesper Medical, Vivlion.
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