By the end of the year Lensar (Orlando) will have achieved two FDA clearances, raised $24 million in private financing, installed about 30 of its laser systems in 11 countries, and have been profiled on the popular television show "The Doctors." Not too shabby for a small, independent med-tech company.

Mauna Kea Technologies (Paris), developer of the Cellvizio, dubbed the "fastest way to see cancer," reported that gastroenterologists in Japan and Germany have used Cellvizio to directly view the enteric nervous system of the digestive tract during an endoscopy procedure for the first time.