Spotlight Medical SAS recently raised €6.2 million (US$6.7 million) in seed funding to bring its first artificial intelligence-powered cancer test to the market as it looks to transform treatment of the disease. “We believe our personalized testing approach will revolutionize cancer treatment, providing everyone with the best possible chance to beat cancer,” Sylvain Berlemont, CEO of Spotlight told BioWorld. Read More
Royalties for licensed patents ordinarily need not be paid after the underlying patent has expired, but the case of Zimmer Biomet Holdings Inc. v. Insall would seem to throw out a cautionary flag regarding such agreements. Read More
Denver-based Davita Inc. agreed to pay more than $34 million to settle allegations that the company violated the Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) by not collecting management fees from physicians to induce referrals to the company’s dialysis clinics. Read More
Exthera Medical Corp.’s Oncobind procedure hemoperfusion filter reduced circulating tumor cells in blood samples of patients with pancreatic cancer in a study published in Nature’s BJC Reports. "Researchers observed on average a 94% reduction in circulating tumor cells with a single use of our technology,” Exthera CEO Eric Borger said. Read More
The 2024 meeting of the International AIDS Society (IAS), which is being held in Munich this week, began with the announcement of another curative bone marrow transplant. The new case brings the total number of patients cured of HIV via a bone marrow transplant up to 7 since “Berlin patient” Timothy Ray Brown became the first such person in 2007. Read More
From no hope to viable treatments, BioWorld is there to cover the breakthroughs in medicine. Listen to Randy Osborne explain why the BioWorld team is ‘always on the lookout for what's next.’ Read More
New hires and promotions in the med-tech industry, including: Caidya, Chroma Dex, Elucid, Full-Life Technologies, Guardant, Inspire Medical, Intuitive, Q’Apel, Vericel, Yourbio. Read More
Clinical updates, including trial initiations, enrollment status and data readouts and publications: Edap Tms, Exthera Medical, Icecure Medical. Read More
Med-tech happenings, including deals and partnerships, grants, preclinical data and other news in brief: Bwxt Medical, NorthStar Medical, Bionic Power, Icecure. Read More
Regulatory snapshots, including global submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Ecential Robotics, Spryte Medical, Strata Skin Sciences. Read More
