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New World Medical Launches Implant to Treat Moderate and Severe Glaucoma

The Rancho Cucamonga, CA-based company has a humanitarian component that allows it to provide Fellowship Awards and technology at no charge to physicians who are willing to donate their time for patients in need.

Senseonics Brings Real-World Data to Super-Competitive CGM Market

With continuous glucose monitoring rapidly becoming the standard of care for some diabetes patients, one analyst details how Senseonics and other companies are positioned in the space.

Burst Balloons Prompt Edwards to Recall Sapien 3 Ultra Delivery System

The recall announcement comes less than a week after FDA expanded indications of transcatheter aortic valves made by both Edwards Lifesciences and Medtronic, making the devices available for use in younger and lower-risk patients. This is Edwards' fifth recall in 2019.

Medtronic Drops Huge Update on Surgical Robotics System

The Dublin-based company will offer analysts and investors a look at the surgical robotics platform Sept. 24, 2019.

Designing ‘Wildly Complex Geometries’ for the Human Body

nTop Platform software enables medical device engineers to design complex lattice structures, control surface roughness, create patient-specific devices, and more.

How Darkroom Photography Techniques Inspired a Radical Approach to Cancer Screening

Unlike traditional cancer imaging solutions, Imago Systems' visual intelligence software is designed to "show everything" while not actually detecting anything. And this distinction, while it may sound counterintuitive, could make all the difference in breast cancer screening.

Adagio Gives Afib Cold Treatment in Hot Market

The Laguna Hills, CA-based company has received an IDE from FDA to initiate a clinical trial of its catheter procedure involving an energy source that freezes tissue.

New Expanded Indication Could Change the TAVR Narrative

Now Edwards and Medtronic’s transcatheter aortic valve replacement devices can be used in patients with low-risk for death or major complications associated with open-heart surgery. One analyst said the conversation will eventually shift toward TAVR being the “preferred treatment method.”

Medical injection molder PTA Plastics earns elite MedAccred status

Custom injection molder PTA Plastics (Longmont, CO) announced that it is one of the first companies in the country to receive MedAccred Plastics Injection Molding accreditation, following a pilot with MedAccred in Plastics Mechanical Assembly. As reported in PlasticsToday in June 2016, MedAccred (...

FDA Approval 'Finally' Recognizes Vertebral Body Tethering as a Mainstream Scoliosis Treatment

Zimmer Biomet's first-of-its-kind spinal tether device sets the stage for helping thousands of kids with scoliosis, according to a top scoliosis specialist at The Mount Sinai Health System.

August Is Hot with New FDA Breakthrough Device Designations

Caesarea, Israel-based V-Wave has received breakthrough device designation for its Interatrial Shunt for heart failure. It is one of several companies this month to receive the designation, which is granted to devices that have the potential to offer a more effective treatment or diagnosis of life-threatening or irreversibly debilitating diseases.

Abbott Targets Drug and Alcohol-Impaired Drivers in New Collaboration

Intoximeters will market its alcohol testing products along with Abbott’s SoToxa Mobile Test System – a handheld oral fluid roadside testing solution that detects recent drug use.

Nikomed Develops Recyclable Lead Wire

Made of PET and printed conductive silver ink, BioWire could replace traditional metal lead wires.

Concept Medical Has the ‘MagicTouch’ to Treat PAD

The Tampa, FL-based company has received breakthrough device designation from FDA for the MagicTouch PTA, a Sirolimus drug-coated balloon (DCB) catheter. The designation comes a few short days after Becton Dickinson and Co. said FDA rejected its Lutonix Paclitaxel DCB for PAD BTK.

MIT Model Automates AI for Medical Decision-Making

MIT computer scientists are hoping to accelerate the use of artificial intelligence to improve medical decision-making, by automating a key step that’s usually done by hand — and that’s becoming more laborious as certain datasets grow ever-larger.

AI Mines Clinical Data for Thyroid Cancer Therapeutic Targets

An artificial intelligence powerhouse and a leader in molecular diagnostics have teamed up to increase the precision of thyroid cancer diagnosis and minimize unnecessary treatment.

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