Researchers from Case Western Reserve University have filed for patent protection for a system and method for treating obesity or other gastric and/or metabolic disorders via closed-loop vagus nerve stimulation.
Med-tech happenings, including deals and partnerships, grants, preclinical data and other news in brief: Centinel Spine, Davita, ERS Genomics, GE Healthcare, Glaukos, Google, Novo Nordisk, Pixium, Silony, Stuart Therapeutics, Syngene, Thermo Fisher.
Regulatory snapshots, including global submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Cardioflow, Edwards Lifesciences, Spectral AI.
The mRNA technology used in vaccines against viral infections could also be developed for cancer therapies. A group of scientists has designed a circular RNA (circRNA) encapsulated in lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) that acts in the mitochondria of tumor cells through the protein gasdermin-D (GSDMD) and reduces adenocarcinoma. The work was published on Oct. 16, 2023, in Nature Cancer.
A week before the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee is scheduled to vote on the confirmation of Monica Bertagnolli as the next NIH director, she faced a grilling by the committee fueled by drug pricing agendas and deals the Biden administration made with certain lawmakers to advance her nomination.
Johnson & Johnson will excise less profitable lines and markets within its Depuy Synthes orthopedics business over the next two years, management revealed in its quarterly investor call on Oct. 16. Paring its products and related pursuits could cost as much as $800 million by the end of 2025, J&J Chief Financial Officer Joe Wolk said.
In a new report from the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC), concerns about global inequities accessing diagnostics and medicines for COVID-19 reveal that there are varied and divergent opinions on whether the intellectual property (IP) protections that support the development of new medicines may also act as a barrier to access, particularly in developing countries. In December 2022, U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai asked the USITC to respond and identify significant data and information gaps.
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