Researchers at the Neurorestore research center created a device that allows paralyzed patients with no sensation in their legs to walk again, providing hope for others with complete spinal injury. More remarkably, the team discovered the specific neurons that take over the signaling function between the brain and muscles to permit movement in response to the device’s electrical stimulation, offering a path forward for researchers, clinicians and patients affected by a wide range of neurological disorders. Read More
Med tech firms are becoming quite familiar with the world of digital health in recent years, but this has often been a pairing of strange bedfellows at best up to now. A new report by Accenture on industry adoption of digital health lays out some of the reasons for that, but some impediments come from government, such as the lag in development of regulatory policies for artificial intelligence (AI) and software as a medical device (SaMD). Read More
Shanghai Easy-Flow Medical Technology Co. Ltd. has completed an angel round to develop its peripheral intervention products. The round, which the company claims to be in the “tens of millions of yuan,” was led by Legend Capital. Read More
Samantree Medical SA has published clinical data demonstrating a significant reduction in re-operations in breast-conserving surgery using its novel ultra-fast confocal microscopy technology. The study on its medical imaging platform, the Histolog scanner, has just been published in The Breast. Read More
Fresh off announcing a new $1.2 billion joint drug discovery and development project with Sanofi SA, Insilico Medicine Inc. founder and CEO Alex Zhavoronkov joined a chorus of executives at the Asia Summit on Global Health in proclaiming the critical importance of partnership between biopharma, tech companies, and regulators, even amid rising tensions between China and the West. Read More
Med-tech happenings, including deals and partnerships, grants, preclinical data and other news in brief: Afaxys, Binx, Biointellisense, Biosense Webster, Centinel Spine, Intermed Resources Tennessee, Medically Home, SQI Diagnostics, Uroviu. Read More
Regulatory snapshots, including global submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Diasorin. Read More
