In what represents just the company’s second PCT filing, Aderet, Israel-based Averrto Medical Ltd. continues to build protection for its system for early stroke intervention that monitors blood flow to the brain, detects changes and provides real-time alerts to enable timely, efficient treatment.

Although there is a clear clinical need for transcatheter mitral valve replacement technologies, a number of challenges must be overcome before they can safely be used to treat patients with mitral regurgitation. Nevertheless, two new devices could enter the European market next year, Edwards Lifesciences Corp.’s Sapien M3 and Highlife Medical SAS’s Highlife TMVR device.

The health care potential for generative artificial intelligence comes with hazards such as the inadvertent effects of poor prompt engineering practices, but Anil Bhatta of Deloitte Consulting told a U.S. FDA advisory committee that this risk could be managed by rules that would thwart any consequent problems, such as an inadvertent jailbreak of the algorithm’s intended use.

Diagnosing depression and other mental illnesses is largely subjective, but that could soon change as Sydney-based Trivarx Ltd. developed an AI-based algorithm that uses heart rate and heart rate variability coupled with sleep disturbance to diagnose major depressive episodes.

Fifty years after the term brain-computer interface (BCI) was coined, Neuralink and several other companies are reviving the promise of BCI for health care, as artificial intelligence and novel methods of neural signal detection work hand-in-hand to propel biomedical innovation.