One-year results from the CLASP IID trial and registry showed outstanding results in patients with significant symptomatic degenerative mitral regurgitation (DMR) for Pascal, Edwards Lifesciences Corp.’s transcatheter-edge-to-edge repair (TEER) system, in a presentation at the 2023 Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) meeting in San Francisco hosted by the Cardiovascular Research Foundation.
Hypnovr SAS recent takeover of Oncomfort SA will bring digital therapeutic solutions to a larger patient population suffering from pain and anxiety. Oncomfort has developed Digital Sedation, a non-pharmacological method of relieving patients’ pain and anxiety. This therapy, coupled with Hypnovr’s own virtual reality (VR) solution will help reduce medication use and improve the care pathway for patients undergoing medical procedures. Read More
Artificial intelligence (AI) is in full development, and advances are already used in many fields, including medicine. In oncology, these tools can identify a tumor in an image with 99% accuracy. But they can also miss it if the algorithm was not developed with the right data or the correct decisions. The 2023 European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) Congress brought together in Madrid doctors and deep learning experts to discuss the challenges and advances of AI in this area. And what’s better than asking an AI what its trainer has told it about AI? Read More
Emvision Medical Devices Ltd.’s stroke helmet correctly identified hemorrhagic stroke patients and differentiated between patients without hemorrhage, interim clinical results show. Read More
The advent of FDA-approved therapies for Alzheimer’s disease has had some downstream regulatory effects, including that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services recently announced it will eliminate the coverage with evidence development (CED) requirement for PET imaging for beta amyloid imaging for Alzheimer's disease. Read More
Clinical updates, including trial initiations, enrollment status and data readouts and publications: Edwards, Heartflow, Magenta Medical, Peijia Medical, Prostatype Genomics, Recor Medical, Personalis, Woebot Labs. Read More
Med-tech happenings, including deals and partnerships, grants, preclinical data and other news in brief: Clarix Imaging, Laborie Medical Technologies, Pocdoc, Roche Diagnostics, Urotronic, Vital Signs Solutions. Read More
Regulatory snapshots, including global submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Cordance, Exatech. Read More
