Guided Therapeutics (Norcross, Georgia) said it has received additional questions from the FDA regarding the company's pre-market approval application for the LuViva advanced cervical scan. FDA advised the company the PMA was not yet approvable in its current form and that the company will need to address these questions in order to place the PMA in approvable form.

There is something different about the newly-formed Israel Brain Technology (IBT) organization, with its inaugural BrainTech conference planned for mid-October in Tel Aviv. The group was the brainchild of Israel s President, Shimon Peres. In May 2011, on the podium of the large Israel Biomed conference, Peres expressed his desire to see Israel grow in this virgin landscape of brain technologies. Unravelling the secrets of this complex system, he said, is an area where we in Israel should excel.