The device industry is quite familiar with whistleblower lawsuits, but Cisco Systems Inc., of San Jose, Calif., was recently forced to pay more than $8 million in connection with a qui tam lawsuit over cybersecurity lapses for video surveillance equipment sold to state and federal government agencies. The case suggests device makers will have to be up to speed on cybersecurity if they wish to avoid suffering a similar fate, particularly given a recent warning the FDA posted regarding a widespread cybersecurity vulnerability. Read More
The routine application of medical device technology to neurological indications beyond pain remains challenging in all but the most severe patients. Micro-cap Neuronetics Inc. is aiming to change all that with its Neurostar transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) system that is noninvasive and used in the physician's office. Read More
William Kaelin, Peter Ratcliffe, and Gregg Semenza have jointly won the 2019 Nobel Prize "for their discoveries of how cells sense oxygen," the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet announced today. Read More
The emerging methodology of federated learning can overcome many of the ethical and privacy obstacles preventing patient data from being pooled for analysis, according to research published this week. Read More
Dublin-based Medtronic plc has filed a PMA supplement with the U.S. FDA for its next-generation, implantable sacral neuromodulation (SNM) device, Interstim Micro, and for its Interstim Surescan MRI leads. Interstim Micro is intended to help patients with overactive bladder (OAB), urinary urge incontinence, unobstructed urinary retention and fecal incontinence (FI). Read More
