The question of prices for a COVID-19 vaccine have raged in recent days. Gary Disbrow, acting director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), told members of a Senate committee that vaccines developed with the help of taxpayer funding will come with an appropriate reduction in price. However, CDC Director Robert Redfield emphasized that the cold-chain distribution system for those products requires the same kind of at-risk investment that is used for vaccine development. Read More
LONDON – Owkin Inc. added a further $18 million to its series A, bringing the amount raised in the round to $70 million and equipping the company to push forward with its federated learning approach to applying artificial intelligence (AI) to the analysis of health data. Read More
Carag AG received investigational device exemption (IDE) approval from the U.S. FDA for its Carag Bioresorbable Septal Occluder (CBSO). The device is the first transcatheter septal occluder with a nonmetal, bioresorbable framework. The Baar, Switzerland-based company plans a "swift start" for a staged study trial in the U.S. with 250 patients, Carag's CEO Jérôme Bernhard told BioWorld. Read More
With the push for value-based care, health care players – from manufacturers, to providers, to payers – are looking for ways to improve patient quality while reducing the costs of care. Advanced technologies, including digital health and artificial intelligence (AI)-based tools, are a major part of the equation, but companies face several challenges and barriers to adoption. To that end, management consultancy has launched a new Health Tech website featuring a Health Tech Industry Accounting Guide and other helpful advice for health-tech companies. Read More
Research focused on finding viable solutions to counter the COVID-19 pandemic continues at an explosive pace with a total of 588 potential therapeutics and vaccines at the forefront of scientific efforts launched by industry, academia and government. Read More
Med-tech firms raising money in public or private financings, including: Biolase, Biolife Solutions, Inheart, Mimedx Group, Sofinnova Partners. Read More
Clinical updates, including trial initiations, enrollment status and data readouts and publications: Berlin Heart, Osteolabs, Pulse Biosciences. Read More
Med-tech happenings, including deals and partnerships, grants, preclinical data and other news in brief: Biosig, Electrical Geodesics, Fluxergy, Gravity Diagnostics, Haynes and Boone, Intouch Health, Kroger, Magstim, MRIglobal, Teladoc. Read More
Regulatory snapshots, including global submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Life Whisperer, Phosphorus, Sagico, Spinal Elements. Read More
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in diagnostics, including: Broad scale genomic testing for childhood illness; Deep learning model for cancer prognosis; Placenta attachment theory. Read More
