Keeping you up to date on recent developments in neurology, including: Fast brainwave oscillations identify, localize epileptic brain; Sleep biomarkers linked to neurodegenerative disease; Autophagy chaperone targets aggregation-prone proteins.
The latest global regulatory news, changes and updates affecting medical devices and technologies, including: Alivecor goes to ITC in patent scrum with Apple; Cordis carotid artery stent recalled; C-Rad snares court win for patent; Orthotics supplies subject of $65M in fraud.
Med-tech happenings, including deals and partnerships, grants, preclinical data and other news in brief: Abbott, Cloud Dx, Dhl Holdings, Emed, Illumina, Inter Medico, Jolly Good, Kartos Therapeutics, McKesson, Premier, Quidel, Sight Diagnostics, Spacelabs Healthcare, Teijin Pharma.
Med-tech firms raising money in public or private financings, including: Aspetiscope, Edap Tms, Nerv Technology, Ronovo Surgical, Treace Medical Concepts.
TORONTO – Perimeter Medical Imaging Inc. has been awarded an FDA breakthrough device designation for a machine learning medical platform it said drives ultra-high-resolution, real-time imaging of breast cancer. Data collected from multiple pathology labs in Texas this past year were fed through the optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging system which now is at the stage where its Imgassist artificial intelligence (AI)-based algorithms can be tested.
LONDON – Startup company Glucomodicum Oy is preparing to commercialize a new technique for the needle-free monitoring of blood glucose levels, applying the principles of magnetohydrodynamics to noninvasively extract interstitial fluid through the skin.