Newly spun out GE Healthcare Technologies Inc. presented preliminary results for the fourth quarter and full year 2022 at the 41st annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference on Tuesday. The update followed the announcement of plans to purchase Imactis SAS, which developed CT-Navigation, a stereotactic needle guidance system. Terms of the Imactis deal were not disclosed. Read More
Sotera Health Services LLC, the parent company of Sterigenics US LLC, has agreed to pay $408 million to settle more than 870 lawsuits pending against the company in Illinois as a means of moving past the specter of ongoing litigation over Sterigenics’ use of ethylene oxide (EtO) for contract medical device sterilization. The settlement may open the doors to litigation over other sterilization plants’ use of the sterilant, constituting an industry-wide attack on device sterilization services that may crimp supplies of devices that are not candidates for other methods of sterilization. Read More
Deepwise Technology Co. Ltd.'s artificial intelligence (AI) device mammography screening software has been approved in China. The company claims that this is the first and only AI medical device that is approved for breast cancer in China. Read More
French consortium Booster is developing a personalized emergency treatment of ischemic stroke in its work on brain clot personalized therapeutic strategies for stroke emergent reperfusion. The aim is to refine the patient prognosis based on blood clot clinical and radiological characteristics and propose more effective drug treatments with a new generation of intracranial stents. Read More
The U.S. FDA’s surveillance of endoscopes related to reprocessing issues has yielded two more warning letters, one each for Tokyo-based Olympus Medical and its Aizu Olympus subsidiary, both of which were cited for inadequate procedures for medical device reports (MDRs). Read More
New hires and promotions in the med-tech industry, including: Applaud Medical, Avanos Medical, Bridge to Life, Icad, Lex Diagnostics, Sysmex America. Read More
Med-tech happenings, including deals and partnerships, grants, preclinical data and other news in brief: ABL, Avinger, Eargo, Exactech, Humedics, Jointmedica, Milestone Scientific, Motus GI, Phastar, Rivermark Medical, S-Cubed, Seastar Medical, Tekmika. Read More
Regulatory snapshots, including global submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Medmira, MTD. Read More
