Cochlear Ltd. heard good news from the U.S. FDA, as the agency approved its next-generation cochlear implant, the Nucleus Nexa System, the first smart cochlear implant system. Cochlear expects to launch the new products in the U.S. in the next few months, Brendan Murray, vice president for Cochlear Implant products portfolio and strategy told BioWorld.
Med-tech happenings, including deals and partnerships, grants, preclinical data and other news in brief: Geneticure, Getinge, Heartflow, Helius, Medtronic, Ōura, Progyny, Recor, Semarion, SPT Labtech, Zimmer Biomet.
Nuclidium AG is poised to circumvent the complex production and supply issues that have held back access to radiopharmaceuticals after closing a CHF79 million (US$99.3 million) series B, to advance the clinical development of its copper isotopes and extend the global manufacturing network.
The U.K.’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) recommends the use of pulsed field ablation as an option to treat NHS patients with atrial fibrillation. NICE said evidence shows the procedure reduces atrial fibrillation and its symptoms, increases quality of life in the short term and raises no major safety concerns.
The med tech patent wars opened a new front in the region of screening tests for colorectal cancer, pitting Exact Sciences Corp., of Madison, Wisc., against St. Louis-based Geneoscopy Inc.
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