The U.S. FDA granted Brightheart SAS 510(k) clearance for its artificial intelligence software which helps doctors detect congenital heart defects in fetuses. The software will transform prenatal ultrasound evaluations of the fetal heart and improve the outcomes for newborns, Cécile Dupont, Brightheart’s CEO, told BioWorld.
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An international consortium of thousands of scientists is creating the Human Cell Atlas, a three-dimensional map of all the cells in the body. The goal is to understand all the cells that make up human tissues, organs and systems, which will enable multiple medical applications. This collection of cell maps is openly available for navigation at single-cell resolution, identified through omics analyses that reveal the tridimensional distribution of each cell.
Radiopharmaceutical company Telix Pharmaceuticals Ltd. has inked a deal worth up to AU$264 million (US$171 million) to license and develop next-generation radiopharma imaging and therapy technology targeting fibroblast activation proteins found in a wide range of cancers.
While women with “big hearts” play well in popular culture, cardiologists see a very different picture – with significant implications for women’s health and medical care. Women have smaller hearts and narrower blood vessels than men and their cardiovascular systems respond to disease and treatment in very different ways. Growing evidence that failure to reflect women’s distinct anatomy in cardiac care leads to deadly disparities in outcomes has recently stimulated development of new diagnostics and increased focus on inclusion of women in medical device trials.
The recent agreement between Devyser Diagnostics AB and Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. to collaborate to obtain U.S. FDA approval for a next-generation sequencing (NGS) test for kidney transplant monitoring allows the test to be democratized, Fredrik Alpsten, CEO of Devyser to BioWorld.
The U.K. Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Wes Streeting, says that he wants people to see the national health service as a neighborhood health service as he works towards reimagining the health system and bringing care into people's homes. Data, he said, will be at the heart of the transformation. So too will be the deployment of science and medical technologies.
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