The latest global regulatory news, changes and updates affecting medical devices and technologies, including: FDA announces recall of discontinued Medtronic catheter.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in oncology, including: Microfluidic provides model for testing therapies on pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma; Cutting off AML’s metabolic escape route; NGF: PDAC’s VEGF?; Revving up cisplatin by targeting Rev7.
Regulatory snapshots, including global submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Abbott, Biolytical Laboratories, DNA Genotek, Pari Pharma, Salvia Bioelectronics.
Med-tech happenings, including deals and partnerships, grants, preclinical data and other news in brief: Alveo Technologies, Biocartis Group, Coloplast, Decision Diagnostics, DJO Global, Endpoint Health, Geneprodx, Hutchinson Technology, Joline, Mir Scientific, Morton Comprehensive Health Services, Motus GI, Nine Continents Medical, Novarad, Ossdsign, Oxford Gene Technology, Remark Holdings, Resonetics, Sirakoss, Stryker, Wright Medical Group.
To say a lot is riding on the Nov. 3 presidential and congressional election in the U.S. would be an understatement, as the outcome could impact drug pricing, patent reform, research spending and pandemic response and preparedness.
Castle Biosciences Inc.'s Decisiondx Diffdx-Melanoma test is now commercially available to help dermatopathologists better characterize melanocytic lesions. About 15% of suspicious pigmented skin lesions cannot be definitively determined to be benign or malignant using common methods. The new gene expression profile test reduces the number of indeterminate results by more than 70%.
Intersect ENT Inc., a sinusitis implant company, reported $22.7 million in third quarter revenue, driven largely by a rebound in procedures with its Propel implants for chronic rhinosinusitis. This figure marks a 6% decline from the $24.1 million reported in the third quarter of 2019.