Regulatory snapshots, including global submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Phase Scientific.
Med-tech happenings, including deals and partnerships, grants, preclinical data and other news in brief: Abbott, Asia Molecular Diagnostic Laboratory, Cardinal Health, China Biotech Services Holding, Empiramed, Fitbit, Fujifilm, Fujifilm Irvine Scientific, Happify Health, Life Whisperer, Lifescan, Oncxerna Therapeutics, Pillar Biosciences, Presagen, Pyramid Innovation, Qiagen, Quidel, Statlab Medical Products.
PARIS – Biospectal SA has just closed a $4.3 million seed round to scale its Optibp smartphone blood pressure monitoring application and data platform technology worldwide.
Catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation has enjoyed an uneven reputation at best over the years, but the prospect of eliminating anti-arrhythmic drugs has proven difficult for both patients and clinicians to ignore. A new analysis of data from the Catheter Ablation vs. Antiarrhythmic Drug Therapy for Atrial Fibrillation (CABANA) study seems to answer the cost effectiveness question for ablation, however, representing yet another piece of evidence that should support increased sales of these devices in the coming years.
Nihon Kohden Corp. has acquired Advanced Medical Predictive Devices, Diagnostics and Displays Inc. (AMP3D) for an undisclosed sum. The company provides data analytics and artificial intelligence solutions for proactive clinical care. Charlottesville, Va.-based AMP3D owns a large library of clinical predictive algorithms, as well as the Continuous Monitoring of Event Trajectories predictive analytics platform. The latter, a software-as-a-service platform, leverages patients’ continuous monitoring data, vita signs, medical records and laboratory tests to display patients’ risk trajectories, both in current and continuous time.
It's a good news, bad news scenario for exhausted T cells in chronic infections. Multiple groups of investigators reported in the July 26, 2021, online issue of NatureImmunology that even after a chronic hepatitis C virus infection was cured, T cells that had become dysfunctional during the infection retained epigenetic "scars" that prevented them from becoming fully functional memory T cells.
Regulatory snapshots, including global submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Qiagen, Spintech.
Med-tech happenings, including deals and partnerships, grants, preclinical data and other news in brief: Adeor Medical, Amazon Web Services, Avinger, Biomérieux, Caption Health, Clearpoint Neuro, GE Healthcare, SAS, Thermo Fisher Scientific.
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