Rebrain SAS's Optimmri platform received European Medical Device Regulation CE mark certification to enable surgeons to identify areas of interest in the brain during deep brain stimulation procedures for Parkinson's disease and essential tremor.
Step aside, Marco Polo: Kakao Healthcare Corp. plans to bring PASTA to Japan. PASTA is Kakao's AI-based continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) management mobile application, which will be available in Japan through a new subsidiary as the health care company works to expand its global presence.
Zip Diagnostics Pty Ltd., Menzies School of Health Research and Axxin Pty Ltd., a Melbourne, Australia-based
diagnostic instrumentation manufacturer, partnered to develop a rapid diagnostic test for scabies, a skin parasite that affects more than 200 million people each year.
In what represents just the company’s third PCT filing, Houston-based Starling Medical Inc.’s co-founders, Hannah McKenney and William Hendricks, seek to gain further protection for their at-home urine diagnostic patient-monitoring platform that eliminates the traditional use of catching containers and dipsticks.
Med-tech firms raising money in public or private financings, including: Basel Medical, Globus Medical, Medvasc, Royal Philips, Senseonics, Staar Surgical.
Clinical updates, including trial initiations, enrollment status and data readouts and publications: Affluent Medical, Bright Uro, Endoquest Robotics, Nitinotes, Viromed Medical.
Med-tech happenings, including deals and partnerships, grants, preclinical data and other news in brief: ABM Respiratory Care, Biacure Therapies, Catheter Precision, Delve Health, Qhslab, Siemens Healthineers.
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