Less than two years after acquiring Sound United for $1.025 billion, Masimo Corp. plans to hive off the consumer audio subsidiary along with consumer health products such as its Stork baby monitor and Freedom smart watch and band. The “rushed” announcement made Friday “came after being informed that Politan intended to nominate directors this week,” said activist investor Politan Capital Management. Politan, which owns 8.9% of the company, secured two board seats in a highly contentious proxy battle last year and nominated two more on Monday morning.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) was quite vocal in its statement regarding a recent hospital cybersecurity breach, but HHS recently suffered an undisclosed data breach that cost $7.5 million in taxpayer monies.

Ultrahuman Healthcare Private Ltd. recently raised $35 million in a series B investment round to accelerate the company’s growth. Ultrahuman has developed several products, most notably a smart ring, which measures a range of physiological signals to impact health and wellbeing.

The U.S. FDA has posted another proposed ban of the use of electrical stimulation devices (ESDs) for the treatment of self-injurious behavior, which revisits the controversy over their use by the Judge Rotenberg Center.

Eledon Pharmaceuticals Inc.’s tegoprubart, an investigational anti-CD40 ligand antibody, was used as part of the immunosuppressive regimen after the first-ever transplant of a kidney from a genetically modified pig to a human. The tegoprubart procedure was done March 16 at Massachusetts General Hospital on a 62-year-old man with end-stage renal disease.