Med-tech happenings, including deals and partnerships, grants, preclinical data and other news in brief: Aurora Spine, ICU Medical Lungpacer Medical, Reflow Medical, Skincure Oncology, Smiths Medical.
Regulatory snapshots, including global submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Beckman Coulter, Miach.
Medtronic plc released positive results from a two-year trial of Evolut TAVR that demonstrated superior valve performance in patients with small aortic annuli.
Professor Alexander Star and researchers from the University of Pittsburgh have filed for protection of their development of a rapid, affordable, and reliable tuberculosis diagnostic tool.
On March 1, 2025, former NIH director Francis Collins’ announced that he had fully resigned from the NIH, where he continued to lead a laboratory after his resignation as director. Collins gave no reason for his resignation, but it comes just before this week’s confirmation hearings for Jay Bhattacharya, who is U.S. President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the NIH and who Collins called a “fringe epidemiologist” during the COVID pandemic. It is a bitter irony that when Collins resigned as NIH director in 2021, then-President Joe Biden said that “countless researchers will aspire to follow in his footsteps.”
With millions of people suffering from chronic back pain, Discure Technologies Ltd. is hoping that its bioelectronic therapy, the Discure system, will soon bring relief.
The U.K.’s national health service (NHS) is rolling out a new artificial intelligence (AI)-powered tool which can predict a patient’s risk of falling with a 97% accuracy rate. The AI software designed by Cera Care Ltd. is already in use in more than two-thirds of NHS integrated care systems across the country and NHS England hopes that the tool will prevent around 2,000 falls and hospital admissions each day.
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