Medications are available to treat many mental disorders, but they’re only effective if patients adhere to the treatment. A distribution agreement between Beckman Coulter Inc. and Saladax Biomedical Inc. aims to improve patient outcomes by providing health care professionals with tests to assess treatment compliance and individual patient drug response.

Biological Dynamics Inc.’s Verita platform correctly identified 96% of patients with stage I pancreatic cancer, a study in Nature Communications Medicine demonstrated. The platform uses protein biomarkers present in extracellular vesicles and showed an overall 71% sensitivity and 99.5% specificity in pathologically confirmed stage I and II pancreatic, ovarian and bladder cancer.

At this year’s Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) 2022 conference in Orlando, Fla., digital health companies across the sector gathered to showcase new products and services. HIMSS CEO Hal Wolf urged the industry to focus on global health equity and a 2022 survey of health care leaders highlighted the elements of digital transformation that are causing the biggest buzz.

As interest in digital health increases and pandemic efforts decline, both med-tech deals and mergers and acquisitions this year continue to climb.

China’s NMPA has given 10 of Sihuan Pharmaceutical Holdings Group Ltd.’s skin repair products medical device registration certificates. The products are developed by its medical aesthetics platform Beijing Meiyan Kongjian Biology Medicine Co. Ltd. The certification is for three scar repair products, four medical dressing and patch products, as well as three skin repair products.

Clinical researchers from Karl Landsteiner University in Krems, Austria, have been conducting a prospective study of a new diagnostic technique for bronchoscopy tissue sampling aimed at patients with unclear diffuse parenchymal disease. They have assessed morbidity and 30-day and 90-day mortality following transbronchial lung cryobiopsy. The team recently published their findings in Therapeutic Advances in Respiratory Disease.