Funding rounds, regulatory milestones, partnerships, and awards from the companies in the MedTech Innovator cohort.
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Samay is developing Sylvee, an AI-powered wearable designed to detect COPD before spirometry can, enabling earlier and more accessible respiratory disease detection for the millions of people who need it.
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NeoCast is a solvent-free, non-adhesive biomaterial engineered to achieve microvascular occlusion. EMBO-01 is the first-in-human trial of NeoCast for the pre-surgical embolization of hypervascular brain tumors.
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Hamilton Company, a global life sciences and laboratory technology company, has acquired Charlottesville-based, University of Virginia spin-off company Cerillo.
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One in every two women over the age of 50 will break a bone due to osteoporosis, but Laura Yecies is working to reduce that risk. As the CEO of Osteoboost, Yecies oversees a company making the first FDA-cleared wearable device shown to slow bone loss in postmenopausal women with osteopenia.
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VB Spine’s co-CEO and global president discuss how CT-Fluoro technology, augmented reality navigation, and family ownership are shaping the company’s strategy in a consolidating market.
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New white paper details how Knowtex's ambient clinical intelligence platform was integrated into VA's CPRS and scaled from a single site to nationwide primary care.
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OncoRes Medical is featured in the latest Winter edition of Uniview, where its article explores how its intraoperative imaging technology is being developed to help surgeons better distinguish cancerous from healthy tissue during breast-conserving surgery, with the goal of reducing repeat surgeries and improving outcomes for patients.
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Magnendo Corp., an MIT spinout developing magnetic robotic navigation technology for endovascular intervention, has been selected for an award of up to $32 million from ARPA-H under its Autonomous Interventions and Robotics (AIR) program.
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Class Medical Limited today announced that the United States Food and Drug Administration has granted 510(k) clearance (K260919) for the TransUrethral Catheter Safety Valve (TUCSV), clearing the device for marketing in the United States for use in adult patients.
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“We started using AI to enhance algorithms and software to better be able to understand the data that’s in each patient’s ECG. And our goal with that was to bring forward personalized medicine in arrhythmia therapy and improve patient outcomes.”
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Royal Philips announced new collaborations with Caretaker Medical and others, expanding its open monitoring ecosystem to support connected patient monitoring from hospital to home.
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Medasense Biometrics announced today that its PMD-200™ pain response (nociception) monitoring system with NOL technology has received an Innovative Technology contract from Vizient®, the largest provider-driven healthcare performance improvement company in the U.S.
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On today’s episode we speak with Dori Jones , Co-Founder and CEO of AcQumen Medical — a company on a mission to close one of pediatric critical care’s most glaring gaps: the lack of real-time, non-invasive hemodynamic monitoring for babies and children in the ICU.
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Henry Ford Health and Michigan State University Health Sciences made the first investments from the Henry Ford + MSU Innovation Fund, backing early-stage companies LightHearted AI and M3D.
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The TFA Cannula incorporates a distal balloon feature designed to allow blood flow to the cannulated limb during cardiopulmonary bypass
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This patent further strengthens the IP foundation of Regenyx‘s proprietary self-assembling peptide hydrogel platform, protecting applications across regenerative and aesthetic medicine, including Lipogenyx™ and future applications.
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In this compelling discussion, Moin Hussaini, Chief Product Officer at AccurKardia, explores how wearable technologies and artificial intelligence are transforming the management of hyperkalemia and helping clinicians sustain Guideline-Directed Medical Therapy (GDMT) for patients with cardiovascular disease.
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LifeBridge Health’s Sinai Hospital of Baltimore is putting an artificial intelligence-powered diagnostic for sepsis into clinical use, bringing a research-backed tool to the patients’ bedside.
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Funding will drive commercial expansion of the first fully wireless FDA-cleared EEG system, making AI-driven remote brain monitoring more widely available to patients and providers.
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Aqua Medical, Inc., a clinical-stage medical technology company pioneering Endoscopic Metabolic Restoration, today announced the successful treatment of the first U.S. patient in its U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-authorized Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) clinical trial evaluating the company’s proprietary Proximal Intestinal Mucosal Ablation (PIMA) procedure for the treatment of type 2 diabetes.
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EvoEndo®, Inc. (EvoEndo) today announced that sedation-free transnasal endoscopy (TNE) is reaching a broader range of gastroenterology programs, including clinic settings without dedicated anesthesia coverage or operating room access.
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Ultra-small Sleepbuds engineered to help people fall asleep faster, stay asleep longer, and wake up more restored with all-night comfort, 14-hour battery life, noise-masking technology, and personalized sleep insights.
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Dopl Technologies is developing an ultrasound robotics platform for patient imaging by remote sonographers.
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Dopl Technologies has raised $6.3 million in seed financing to accelerate development and regulatory approval of its telerobotic ultrasound platform, positioning the company to expand access to diagnostic imaging through remotely operated robotic systems.
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Universal Brain, a neurotechnology company pioneering objective brain-function measurement for mental health, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted 510(k) clearance for its proprietary UB ERP System, which measures brain function using electroencephalography (EEG) and event-related potentials (ERPs).
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MIT spinout to accelerate product development and first-in-human studies of its magnetic robotic navigation platform designed to dramatically improve the speed and reliability of neuro-endovascular procedures
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NeuraNova, Inc., a medical technology company developing portable, noninvasive technologies for neurological care, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted 510(k) clearance to the STEDI Device.
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TYBR Health today announced a $30 million Series A financing led by Vensana Capital and Mutual Capital Partners, with participation from Neovate Capital Partners and existing investors.
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Universal Brain just announced an FDA 510(k) clearance for its Neurotique™ platform, which offers a five-minute assessment to measure cognitive and emotional brain function in support of psychiatric diagnosis and treatment.
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ClearCam™, Inc., an Austin-based medical device company focused on minimally invasive surgery, announced its selection by AFWERX for an SBIR Phase I contract worth $74,360.
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Endocision is pleased to announce the successful completion of the first series of human clinical cases using its Cryocision flexible cryocatheter system at leading Quebec hospitals.
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Neuspera Medical today highlighted that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has confirmed the assignment of the billing code for the Neuspera Sacral Neuromodulation System (SNM) to payment level APC 5464 in the proposed CY 2027 Outpatient Prospective Payment System Rule.1 The assignment provides the externally powered integrated SNM (iSNM) system the same Medicare payment as all other neuromodulation implantable therapies for urinary urge incontinence.
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Winter Innovations, Inc. a medical device company developing innovative solutions for orthopedic soft tissue surgery, announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted 510(k) clearance for the expanded EasyWhip® Family.
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The integration enables streaming of the patient’s NOL-Nociception Level Index® data to EHRs, supporting personalized analgesia in surgery and critical care.
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AtaCor Medical, Inc., a privately-held medical device company focused on transforming cardiac rhythm management, announced today the enrollment of the first patient in the company’s ALARION-EV study (NCT07324031).
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OncoRes Medical has been awarded $3 million in funding under the Australian Government’s Cooperative Research Centres Projects (CRC-P) program to explore the application of the Company’s proprietary Quantitative Micro-Elastography (QME) imaging technology in prostate cancer surgery.
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Neal Piper, Founder and CEO of Luminoah, has been named an EY US Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2026 Mid-Atlantic Award winner. Piper was selected from nearly 1,000 program participants, including 592 finalists across 17 regions, in recognition of his entrepreneurial leadership, innovation, and commitment to improving the lives of patients and caregivers.
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Wavelet Medical announced today an award from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) to support validation of its novel fetal brain monitoring technology.
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Company advances clinical validation of its add-on technology designed to support lesion detection through real-time microwave sensing and acoustic alerts during colonoscopy.
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Access Vascular, Inc. (“AVI”), a medical device company specializing in developing advanced vascular access solutions, and Medline, the largest provider of medical-surgical products and supply chain solutions serving all points of care, today announced a multi-year agreement to accelerate the rollout of AVI’s next-generation catheters, HydroMID® and HydroPICC®, which recently received an anti-thrombogenic indication from the FDA.
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CroíValve, a pioneering medical device company focused on the development of a novel transcatheter device for the treatment of tricuspid regurgitation, announced today the closing of $20 million Series B expansion financing, along with $7 million European Innovation Council (EIC) and DTIF grant financing.
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Lung cancer biopsies are still being done blind more often than you’d think, leading to costly diagnostic errors.
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XEOS, a medical technology company advancing intraoperative molecular imaging, today announced the publication of the BrIMA (Breast cancer Intraoperative Margin Assessment) study in JAMA Surgery, world’s leading peer reviewed surgical journals.
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Inflammatix, a leader in precision diagnostics for acute infection, today announced its collaboration with the University of Nebraska Medical Center and the National Quarantine Unit to support the response to the hantavirus outbreak using its TriVerity® test.
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SonoVascular Inc. and OsteoCure Therapeutics, both based in the Triangle, have been selected for the highly competitive MedTech Innovator (MTI) 2026 Accelerator Cohort, highlighting the depth and momentum of North Carolina’s rapidly growing medtech ecosystem.
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During The Aesthetic Meeting recently held in Boston, Drs. Steven Sigalove, Holly Wall, Jason Pozner, and Vinaya Rednam shared clinical perspectives on how actively managing incisional tension at the time of closure is helping improve healing trajectories, reduce wound complications, and enhance aesthetic outcomes across a range of procedures.
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Subtle Medical, a leader in AI-powered medical imaging software, today announced FDA clearance for SubtleHD™(CT), an AI-powered image enhancement solution designed to reduce noise and improve low contrast detectability across CT imaging.
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Governor Wes Moore today announced that the Maryland Department of Commerce has awarded 11 grants totaling nearly $7 million through the Build Our Future Grant Program. The recipients represent projects that will support innovation infrastructure development in eligible technology sectors.
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AccurKardia, Inc., an ECG analytics software company focused on establishing ECG as a broad biomarker, today announced that it has been granted US Patent No. 12,620,488 for the company’s proprietary machine-learning-based system for identifying cardiac amyloidosis from a standard, routinely performed 12-lead ECG.
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EpiWatch today announced the publication of its Phase III clinical study in Neurology Open Access, demonstrating strong performance of its Apple Watch–based seizure detection application in identifying tonic-clonic seizures (TCS) across pediatric and adult populations ages 5 and up.Over 3.5 million Americans are impacted by epilepsy.
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Cardiosense, a healthcare technology company focused on heart failure care, today announced that the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has granted De Novo classification for its PCWP Analysis Software™, a first-in-class technology to estimate a key indicator of heart health noninvasively.
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Flosonics Medical has announced it received a new FDA 510(k) clearance (K252810) for its FloPatch (FP120), marking a significant milestone in the evolution of wearable hemodynamic monitoring.
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A randomized, controlled study of a novel liquid embolic, NeoCast, adjunctive to surgery
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But we may be on the brink of a new era in preventative treatment. There is promising new research that looks at a “biological switch,” normally triggered by exercise, that helps keep bones strong—offering a potential path for drugs that might mimic physical activity.
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Aurie announced that the Aurie Reusable No-Touch Intermittent Catheter System™ has been granted marketing authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) through the Class II De Novo pathway—establishing it as the first ever reusable intermittent urinary catheter system and creating a new device classification in an industry that exclusively relied on single-use catheters for decades.
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Bright Uro, a medical device company with a mission to transform care for lower urinary tract dysfunction (LUTD) through innovations in urodynamics, today announced that the U.S.
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Mobia said its Vivistim System, which received premarket approval in 2021, is the only approved solution for chronic ischemic stroke survivors with moderate to severe upper extremity impairments.
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A university spinout which specialises in hyperspectral imaging to assist surgeons has clinched a £17m funding boost from investors including London-listed IP Group.
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Avenda Health, an AI healthcare company creating the future of personalized prostate cancer care, today announces Unfold AI is now included in Medicare’s Physician Fee Schedules across the West Coast and Mountain West regions.
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Neurava Inc., an innovative medtech startup focused on advanced wearable monitoring solutions for epilepsy, today announced that it has been awarded a $4 million NIH Blueprint MedTech Optimizer award to support the development of a Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP) risk stratification and forecasting algorithm.
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A breakthrough in fetal brain monitoring developed at Yale is moving from laboratory discovery to global commercialization through a pivotal partnership with Aegis Ventures, including $7M in seed funding.
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Sibel Health today announced FDA 510(k) clearance of ANNE® Maternal, the world’s first fully wireless, comprehensive maternal-fetal monitoring platform.
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InVera Medical announced FDA 510(k) clearance for the InVera infusion device for the minimally invasive treatment of diseased leg veins, including varicose veins. The device is now approved for use in the United States and European Union within its indications.
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Breakthrough Device-Designated Therapy System Takes Important Step Toward Market Authorization
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CNN spoke with the first person in the world to be treated with this futuristic material, called Res-Q-Foam, after he was seriously injured in a car crash last year and had just moments to live.
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Anumana, a leader in cardiovascular AI, has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance for its pulmonary hypertension (PH) algorithm, an AI-enabled software-as-a-medical-device (SaMD) that detects early signs of PH, a serious and progressive condition affecting the lungs and right side of the heart.
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Starlight Cardiovascular announced that the first baby in the world was treated with its Lifeline™ Ductus Arteriosus Stent System at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital in January. The device is currently being studied under a U.S. Food and Drug Administration Investigational Device Exemption clinical trial.
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Xenocor announces David McNally as CEO and leadership appointments as the company commences commercialization of its recently FDA 510(k)-cleared Saberscope™ surgical visualization system for minimally invasive and laparoscopic surgery.
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Matthew Segar, MD, of The Texas Heart Institute, discusses new research evaluating whether AI‑enabled ECG analysis can detect aortic stenosis years before traditional symptom‑driven diagnosis.
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Toro Neurovascular today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted 510(k) clearance for the Toro 88 Superbore Catheter, marking a transformative milestone for the company and the commercial introduction of its first proprietary neurovascular access catheter platform.
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Vitestro, the pioneer in medical robotics advancing automated diagnostic blood collection, today announced the close of a $70 million oversubscribed Series B financing.
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May Health, a medical device company dedicated to helping women living with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), today announced that it raised €10 million ($11.7M) with participation from current investors, including Sofinnova Partners, Trill Impact, and Bpifrance, as well as new investor Nexpring Health™.
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In this episode, Armor Medical Co-founder and CEO Kelsey Mayo shares her ultimate entrepreneurial journey. Mayo recognized early on that her career needed to make an impact, but the focus of her passion became clear after a frightening experience of her own.
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Avisi Technologies, Inc., an ophthalmic medical device company advancing novel, sight-saving technologies, announces the closing of $10.7M in new financing.
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Liquet Medical Inc., a pioneering medical device company committed to advancing patient care through innovative technologies, today announced it has received a second 510(k) clearance from the U.S.
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Juan C. Jimenez addresses the heart care crisis in the United States where half of all counties have no specialist to read heart scans. There are more monitors than ever but less time to look at the data. Software must help doctors find sickness before it spreads.
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Xenocor, Inc. today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the new Xenocor Saberscope®, a single-use 5mm articulating laparoscope designed for high definition (HD) visualization during minimally invasive abdominal (belly) and thoracic (chest) surgical procedures.
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Preliminary three-month results from the first five human implantations of StentIt’s resorbable fibrillated scaffold (RFS) reveal a technical success rate of 100% and no device- or procedure-related serious adverse events at 30 days in patients with below-the-knee (BTK) chronic limb-threatening ischaemia (CLTI).
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San Carlos, CA — February 18, 2026 /OrthoSpineNews/ — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Premarket Approval (PMA) to the LimiFlex™ Dynamic Sagittal Tether, a motion-preserving system for the treatment of lumbar spinal stenosis associated with Grade I degenerative spondylolisthesis following decompression.
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BackgroundExtravascular implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (EV-ICDs) are being developed to overcome limitations of current implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs).
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VB Spine LLC (“VB Spine”), the largest privately held spine company, today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire exclusive rights to the xvision Spine System® (xvision) from Augmedics, adding augmented reality (AR) navigation to VB Spine’s growing enhanced visualization portfolio.
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Retia Medical today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted 510(k) clearance for Argos Infinity™, the company’s cardiovascular intelligence software platform designed for high-risk surgical and critical care environments across health systems.
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InVera Medical, an Irish medical technology company, has received European regulatory approval for a new minimally invasive device designed to help physicians deliver treatment more effectively to diseased leg veins, including varicose veins.
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In this episode of the Crux of Cardio, host Jordan Bergen sits down with Filip Peters, Co-founder and CEO of Acorai, to unpack how his team is building a non-invasive device that reads the pressures inside the heart, using machine learning inspired by oil and gas diagnostics.
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OncoRes Medical today announced it has closed an AUD $27M private funding round (‘the Funding round’) to progress clinical development and regulatory milestones for its Quantitative Micro-Elastography (QME) Imaging System, Elora™.
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Entirety Biomedical, a Michigan-based medical device startup developing bioabsorbable implant systems with its proprietary Curasorb technology, today announced the closing of a $1.2 million Seed financing round to advance toward first-in-human clinical trials.
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Neuspera® Medical, Inc., the leading developer of integrated technologies powering the future of neuromodulation, today announced a milestone patient revision from a traditional sacral neuromodulation (SNM) system to the recently FDA-approved Neuspera SNM System, an integrated sacral neuromodulation (iSNM) system for urinary urge incontinence (UUI).
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Plexāā Ltd., a brand-new Prehab™ tech platform revolutionizing the underserved pre-op phase, announces it has achieved certification to ISO 13485:2016 — Medical devices: Quality management systems – Requirements for regulatory purposes.
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Scientists are using spider silk to help develop surgical devices for nerve regeneration.
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Leadoptik today announced the successful first-in-human clinical use of its FDA-cleared Last Inch Assessment (LIA) system, the company tells MassDevice.The first-in-human use took place at the University of Chicago Medical Center.
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Vancomycin is the antibiotic doctors reach for when almost nothing else will work. It’s used in hospitals for serious drug-resistant infections, or for when an infection is spreading through the patient’s bloodstream.
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Medtronic plc (NYSE:MDT), a global leader in healthcare technology, today announced it will exercise its option to acquire CathWorks, a privately held medical device company, which aims to transform how coronary artery disease (CAD) is diagnosed and treated.
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Sepsis Alliance, the leading patient advocacy organization dedicated to saving lives and reducing suffering by improving sepsis awareness and care, is pleased to announce that Tim Sweeney, MD, PhD, has joined its Board of Directors.
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In this episode of She Leads Biotech, I sit down with Dr. Meghana Helder-Surgeon, practicing cardiac surgeon and Founder & CEO of Octin Health. She shares how one sleepless night in the OR — and one patient outcome she couldn’t let go of — led her to build a medtech company from her basement, starting with a garden hose, a drill, and a whole lot of determination.
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Prenosis, a biology-based technology company delivering integrated diagnostics and therapeutics, announced today two major milestones: completion of its Series A Financing Round, and a contract from the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), a component of the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR) within the U.S.
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LIA™ (Last Inch Assessment) has officially received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. On paper, this is a regulatory milestone. In practice, it represents a fundamental shift in how lung cancer can be approached at its most fragile and consequential moment.
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New medical devices are hitting the market almost daily, improving the lives of patients living with a myriad of conditions.
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PHILADELPHIA, PA / ACCESS Newswire / January 28, 2026 / Strados Labs, a medical technology company advancing respiratory care through wearable technologies, today announced an observational research study evaluating remote lung sound monitoring in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) using its FDA 510(k) cleared RESP® Biosensor.
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Next-generation sequencing is anticipated to transform infectious disease treatment by enabling faster diagnosis, yet a clinical-grade method for genomic AST determination is still lacking.
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Newrotex, a clinical-stage biotech start-up developing innovative silk-based medical devices for nerve repair, has taken 1680 sq ft (156 sq m) of manufacturing and R&D laboratory and office space at our Wood Centre for Innovation in Headington, Oxford, as it enters a critical phase of clinical and operational scale-up.
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HAPPE Spine has developed a fully synthetic biomaterial platform for bone integrating implants that look and act more like a biologic. The implants feature a bone-like structure and cell-friendly surfaces.
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FibriCheck is proud to announce partnerships with four leading Dutch hospitals: Amphia Hospital, Spaarne Gasthuis, Alrijne Hospital, and Rode Kruis Ziekenhuis. These partnerships strengthen our mission to make remote cardiac care more efficient, patient-centered, and cost-effective.
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Potential for novel incubator to address key aspects of preterm neonatal care and reduce dependence on NICU
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Juniper Biomedical has won Phase 3 of the NIH SPARC Neuromod Prize, earning a $1.6 million cash award that the company said will support ongoing product development and clinical trials for its lead therapy targeting mixed urinary incontinence (MUI).
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The Respiratory Innovation Summit (RIS) is an event that unites the innovators, investors, clinicians and advocacy groups who are leading the charge to create powerful new treatments for diseases of the lungs and airways.
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For millions of people with knee damage, treatment options can be limited — especially before a full knee replacement is even considered. Now, a startup with ties to Central Virginia is reaching a major milestone that could change how certain knee injuries are treated.
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LEADOPTIK, Inc. today announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance of its Last Inch Assessment™ (LIA) system, the world’s first system to use silicon photonics imaging technology and software designed to improve the accuracy of lung biopsy procedures.
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Daniel Firth leads data and AI programs at OncoRes, overseeing a team of software developers, engineers, and data scientists.
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Mathias Wipf of MOMM Diagnostics GmbH will improve their préXclude test to better enable its use in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) as an affordable point-of-care diagnostic platform for prediction and detection of preeclampsia early in pregnancy.
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Potential for novel incubator to address key aspects of preterm neonatal care and reduce dependence on NICU
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Abbott today announced a collaboration with AtaCor Medical to advance a next-generation investigational extravascular implantable cardioverter defibrillator (EV-ICD) system designed to deliver defibrillation therapy to people with life-threatening heart rhythms.
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Nanochon, a Washington, DC-based orthopedic device company developing an implant for treating articular cartilage defects in the knee, has secured commitments to close an oversubscribed funding round, bringing its total capital raised to date to $11.3 million.
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GelSana Therapeutics, Inc. (“GelSana”), a wound care company developing novel polymer-based dressings to accelerate healing, today announced that Donald Gregg has joined the company as Chief Commercial Officer (CCO).
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PharmaJet®, a company focused on improving the performance and outcomes of injectables through needle-free injection technology, announced that its partner Scancell has reported updated Phase 2 clinical data from the SCOPE study in unresectable advanced melanoma.
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AccurKardia, an ECG-led diagnostics software company focused on transforming ECG data into a more powerful diagnostic tool and broad biomarker to improve patient outcomes and save lives, today announced U.S.
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FineHeart, a clinical-stage medical technology company specializing in the development of innovative solutions for cardiology, announced today the completion of a €35 million first closing of its Series C financing round.
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Prevencio, Inc., a leader in advanced, AI-driven multiprotein-based cardiovascular and cardiometabolic risk assessment, and Quadrant Health today announced a partnership agreement to integrate Prevencio’s HART® CVE and HART® CADhs blood tests into Quadrant Health’s primary care model.
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BRIJ Medical, the company redefining surgical closure and post-surgical healing with active tension offloading, today announced that it has successfully oversubscribed its SAFE fundraising round, surpassing its initial target amid strong investor demand.
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Dr. Hanna Tammam, a fellowship-trained hand, elbow, and shoulder surgeon in Lubbock, Texas, is the first U.S. physician to use TYBR Health’s B3 GEL System in a procedure, the company announced.
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USA Health recently became the first and only hospital in the state of Alabama to implement a breakthrough blood test to quickly identify and treat sepsis.
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BrainSpace, a medical technology company building automated solutions for neuro injury, illness and degeneration, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted 510(k) clearance for Intellidrop, an automated brain fluid management system integrating proprietary hardware and software to achieve continuous brain pressure measurement and closed-loop, gravity-driven, precision drainage of brain fluid to a personalized volume or pressure goal.
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BrainSpace, a medical technology company building automated solutions for neuro injury, illness and degeneration, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted 510(k) clearance for Intellidrop, an automated brain fluid management system integrating proprietary hardware and software to achieve continuous brain pressure measurement and closed-loop, gravity-driven, precision drainage of brain fluid to a personalized volume or pressure goal.
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Recovering from a broken bone can be a long, painful experience — even life-threatening for the elderly.
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Nitinotes Ltd., an early commercial stage medical technology company developing fully automated endoluminal suturing solutions for obesity treatment, today announced that the first patient has been treated in its U.S.
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Targeting a soft-tissue market led by Intuitive Surgical, Moon has invested in digital capabilities to try to differentiate its robots from the competition.
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CranioSense, Inc., a neurotechnology company developing the world’s first noninvasive intracranial pressure (ICP) diagnostic and monitoring system, today announced the award of approximately $5.5 million in total non-dilutive funding through the NIH Blueprint MedTech Program and the U.S.
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NeuroBionics today announced the completion of its oversubscribed seed round, marking significant momentum as the company advances its endovascular neuromodulation platform toward first-in-human studies.
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RIVANNA®, developer of world-first imaging-based medical technologies, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted 510(k) clearance for its Accuro® 3S Needle Guide Kit consumables.
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Teal Health, a virtual women’s health platform and the creators of the first and only FDA-authorized self-collection device for at-home cervical cancer screening, today announced the availability of their services on the Thatch Marketplace.
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Zenflow, Inc. announced today the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of the Zenflow Spring® Implant and Delivery System for the treatment of symptoms associated with benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), also known as enlarged prostate.
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Neurovalens, a global leader in non-invasive neuro-technology, has been granted medical device De Novo approval from the US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) for Modius Lean, its prescribed treatment for weight management.
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CathVision, a medical technology company dedicated to improving clinical outcomes in cardiac electrophysiology through high-fidelity signal acquisition and intelligent software, today announced two major milestones: the appointment of Eric Thepaut as independent Chairman of the Board, and the commercial release of Version 3.5 of the ECGenius® System.
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Dustin Williams, CSO of Purgo Scientific, started on the road to the Vetlen Pouch through profound frustration with the state of infection care. As a researcher trying to find better ways to treat bone infections, he’d spent years working to improve antimicrobial coatings.
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Launch Tennessee today announced the 32 companies selected for its FY26 SBIR/STTR Matching Fund, marking a historic milestone as the program surpasses $1 billion in total economic impact – measured through follow-on capital raised, additional grants leveraged, and wages generated across the State of Tennessee.
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Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment Peter Burke TD, and Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, James Lawless TD today announced funding of almost €39 million for seven additional projects under Call 7 of the Disruptive Technologies Innovation Fund (DTIF).
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GT Medical Technologies, a medical device company dedicated to improving the lives of patients with brain tumors, today announced ECU Health as the latest GammaTile® Center of Excellence Program designation.
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SutureTech, a surgeon-founded medical device company pioneering advanced soft tissue repair solutions, announced the appointment of Ken Gall to its Board of Directors.
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Eko Health, a leader in AI-powered cardiac and pulmonary care, announced that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has finalized national payment for its SENSORA® platform under the Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS).
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VisCardia, Inc., a medical device company pioneering a novel cardiac-support therapy for patients with heart failure, today announced it has secured $40 million in growth financing to advance the company’s path toward Premarket Approval (PMA) for its VisONE™ Synchronized Diaphragmatic Stimulation (SDS) Therapy.
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Ligence announces that its AI-powered echocardiography software, Ligence Heart, has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance. Ligence Heart, is an AI-powered software that automates measurements and analysis of 2D transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) images and produces a structured report with several key cardiac structural and functional parameters.
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Little Sparrows Technologies, a leading innovator in neonatal care solutions, announced that it has been awarded a supplier contract with Vizient, Inc.
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In this diagnostic study, 65 participants undergoing skin biopsy were imaged with a novel cross-modal system. Expert readers used traditional hematoxylin and eosin histopathology to validate skin features identified on cross-modal imaging and to train blinded physician readers; in performance testing, blinded readers scored 96.4% accuracy in feature identification.
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Dr Kath Giles has carved a remarkable path from the surgical theatre to the cutting-edge of medical innovation.
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BOSTON —A Boston hospital is working to help premature infants sleep more like babies. Doctors say it’s not as easy as it sounds.
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Distalmotion has designed Dexter to integrate into existing surgical environments without the need for dedicated infrastructure. The robotic platform’s open architecture allows surgeons to use their preferred visualization systems and laparoscopic electrosurgical generators.
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Join Iris Wedeking, CEO and Founder of iDentical, and Dr. Gary Goldman, Founder of Global Health Impact Network and Funds, for a candid fireside chat on how drill-free, patient-specific 3D-printed implants are poised to transform implant dentistry.
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Neocis®, the pioneer behind the first and only U.S. FDA-cleared robotic system for dental implant surgery, today announced the launch and FDA approval of its next-generation robotic platform: Yomi S.
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This marks the tenth edition of the Business Journal’s OC500, our annual inventory Directory of Influence.
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Hypervision Surgical is proud to announce that we have been awarded the 2025 Lippmann Award, a global distinction recognising impactful innovation in hyperspectral imaging.
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Ozlo, the sleep technology company behind Ozlo Sleepbuds® and a pioneer in noise-masking innovation and sleep tracking insights, today announced its partnership with Calm, the mental health company with the #1 app for sleep, meditation, and relaxation.
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HAPPE Spine, an early stage company advancing clinical outcomes with a proprietary biomaterial and manufacturing platform for creating bone-integrating implants, announces that the INTEGRATE®-C Interbody Fusion System has been implanted in more than 1,000 patients, demonstrating clinical adoption of the HAPPE® platform across more than 30 surgeon users and 40 facilities nationwide.
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Augmedics announced today that it received FDA 510(k) clearance for X2, its next-generation augmented reality (AR) headset.
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The California Association of Health Facilities (CAHF) has selected Darmiyan, Inc., a leading neurotechnology company, as its only Preferred Provider for Cognitive Health Solutions.
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Nitinotes Ltd., a medical device company transforming the treatment of obesity, today announced it has received CE Mark approval for the EndoZip™ System, the first fully automated suturing platform for endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty (ESG).
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Assistive Technology Development, Inc. (ATDev) announced today that it is a subcontractor for the Robotic Assistive Mobility and Manipulation Platform (RAMMP) program, awarded to the University of Pittsburgh under the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) for up to $41 million.
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Heidelberg, Germany – November 6, 2025. PRECISIS GmbH today announced that the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) approval for its pivotal EASEE4US clinical study, marking a significant step toward U.S.
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Aqua Medical has received an investigational device exemption (IDE) from the FDA for its ablation device intended to treat diabetes, the company told MassDevice ahead of an official announcement later today.
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Multiphze, LLC is announcing that the MultiphzeÒ Enclosed Bladder Irrigation System has received an Innovative Technology contract from Vizient® the nation’s largest provider-driven healthcare performance improvement company.
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Healionics Corporation, a developer of synthetic biomaterial-based medical devices, today announced the presentation of 24-month clinical results for its STARgraft arteriovenous (AV) graft at last week’s Controversies in Dialysis Access (CiDA) Symposium, the leading educational forum for surgeons, radiologists, nephrologists and medical staff who care for dialysis patients.
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Conavi Medical, a company focused on imaging tech to guide minimally invasive cardiovascular procedures, has revealed strategic leadership changes related to its planned commercial launch and expansion in the U.S.
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Avisi Technologies, Inc., an ophthalmic medical device company advancing novel, sight-saving technologies, presented positive twelve-month clinical data on VisiPlate® Aqueous Shunt from the VITA Trial during the 2025 American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) annual meeting.
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Surgical Automations announced today that it closed a $3.4 million oversubscribed seed funding round to support its surgical robotics platform.
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Conavi Medical Corp. (TSXV: CNVI) (OTCQB: CNVIF) (“Conavi” or the “Company”), a commercial-stage medical device company focused on designing, manufacturing, and marketing imaging technologies to guide minimally invasive cardiovascular procedures, is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement with the Province of Ontario as part of the Life Sciences Scale-Up Fund (LSSUF).
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Presented as Late-Breaking Science at TCT 2025 by Dr. Timothy D. Henry, simultaneously published in JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions
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LATTICE MEDICAL, a French Medtech company specializing in tissue engineering, announces a Series B fundraising round of €43 million, one of the largest of the year in the French Medtech sector.
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PharmaJet®, a company that strives to improve the performance and outcomes of injectables with its innovative needle-free injection technology, today announced that their WHO prequalified Tropis ID Needle-free Injection System will be used in the latest polio immunization campaign in Pakistan, planned for late 2025.
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A near-death experience with hemorrhage left a scientist searching for ways to detect serious blood loss early.
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Neurent Medical, a leader in non-surgical treatments for chronic rhinitis, today announced that UnitedHealthcare’s Medicare Advantage policy has removed CPT 31242 posterior nasal nerve ablation using radiofrequency from its Experimental & Investigational (E&I) list, effective immediately giving over 10 million patients access to NEUROMARK.
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Onkos Surgical, a leading provider of innovative solutions for complex orthopaedic procedures, announced that it has recently received a 510(k) clearance from the U.S.
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RIVANNA®, developers of world-first imaging-based medical technologies, has been awarded with a Peer-Reviewed Medical Research Program (PRMRP) Technology/Therapeutic Development Award (TTDA) from the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program (CDMRP).
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Subtle Medical, Inc., a leader in AI-powered medical imaging solutions, today announced positive findings from a proof-of-concept (POC) study with Bayer, a leader in Radiology, evaluating Subtle Medical’s investigational SubtleGAD™ technology.
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Medtronic plc, a global leader in healthcare technology, and DASI Simulations, a leader in AI-driven predictive modeling and digital-twin technology, today announced a strategic partnership to enhance access to DASI technology to optimize outcomes for patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) in the United States.
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Knowtex, a leading provider of ambient clinical intelligence, announces that it has been awarded a $15 million contract with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), and was a top 3 Winner of the 2024 AI Tech Sprint for Ambient Scribe.
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A new study to be presented at The Menopause Society (TMS) 2025 Annual Meeting by Osteoboost Health shows that a self-guided, online exercise program led to rapid and clinically meaningful improvements in leg strength and endurance — key factors in reducing fall risk — in women ages 40 to 89.
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The Neuromod Prize, a $9.8 million competition to accelerate the development of targeted neuromodulation therapies, has announced two Phase 3 winners. The competition aimed to advance neuromodulation solutions and brought them much closer to having tangible patient impact, offering new hope to the millions of patients battling chronic or acute diseases.
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Adaptyx Biosciences announced today that it raised $14 million in seed funding to support its multi-analyte molecular monitoring device.
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New technology is also driving innovation across medicine. Medical device company StrokeDx, founded by 2025 Science listers Alexander Ballatori and Shane Shahrestani, can diagnose stroke type in minutes instead of hours with its STEDI device.
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Redox, healthcare’s leading interoperability company powering flexible data exchange in real-time, and Kno2, the company leading the future of healthcare communication and a federally designated Qualified Health Information Network (QHIN), today announced a strategic alliance that solves healthcare’s dual challenge of moving clinical data at scale between the major healthcare networks and systems as well as making it instantly usable.
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MicroTransponder®, Inc., a commercial-stage medical technology company and developer of the breakthrough Vivistim® Paired VNS™ System for chronic stroke recovery, today announced that its co-founder and chief scientific officer, Navzer Engineer, MD, Ph.D., won the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) Innovator of the Year Award.
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Assistive Technology Development, Inc. (ATDev), a pioneer in AI-enabled, high-performance rehabilitation and personal mobility solutions, announced today that it has raised $3 million in Seed funding.
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Cleveland Clinic has entered into an agreement with DASI Simulations to co-develop the next generation of AI predictive modeling solutions for the treatment of structural heart diseases.
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The winners of the second edition of the Future Health Trophies were announced on Thursday, October 16, 2025. The awards celebrated the most remarkable start-up innovations and the most successful collaborations in the health sector.
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*Corresponding Author: Gadi Borkow, MedCu Technologies Ltd., 4672200 Herzliya, Israel.
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OtoNexus Medical Technologies has been named to Puget Sound Business Journal’s Washington’s Best Workplaces for 2025, ranking #4 in the Micro Companiescategory.
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Today, Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) is recognizing Koya Medical (“Koya”) CEO Andy Doraiswamy, PhD as one of the Most Exceptional Entrepreneurs of 2025 at its Builders and Innovators Summit in Healdsburg, California.
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Avisi Technologies, Inc., an ophthalmic medical device company advancing novel, sight-saving technologies, announces that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved an investigational device exemption (IDE) submission for Avisi’s glaucoma treatment device VisiPlate®.
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Toro Neurovascular has announced an exclusive distribution partnership with Kaneka Medical America for Toro’s novel neurovascular catheter portfolio in the US market, pending regulatory clearance.
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Nutromics has announced a major milestone in wearable diagnostics, unveiling the world’s first real-time, continuous in vivo data for two antibiotics—vancomycin and tobramycin—measured simultaneously on a single device.
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Osteoporosis weakens bones as we age, affecting 50 million Americans, and women disproportionately. Half of all women will fracture a bone in their lifetime, according to Laura Yecies, CEO of Osteoboost, and hip fractures in old age often lead to complications or death.
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Respiratory device developer Samay and Chiesi Farmaceutici are partnering on new algorithms for the detection of a condition related to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), the two companies will announce today.
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Most sleep gadgets just track slumber. Ozlo’s tiny, squishy bluetooth earbuds are smarter, adjusting to your sleep. You can listen to audiobooks or playlists until accelerometers in the buds detect you’ve dozed off.
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San Diego—AdvaMed, the MedTech Association, the world’s largest trade association representing medtech innovators, just concluded its most impactful MedTech Conference to date, welcoming 3,708 attendees and representatives from 1,800 companies across 38 countries.
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Averto Medical, a clinical-stage medical technology company pioneering gastrointestinal disease solutions, today announced it has been awarded a $2.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study its flagship product, the ColoSeal™ Intraluminal Colonic Diversion System, for a new indication: diverticulitis.
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Lydia Garcia’s first two years were marked by severe medical crises, including multiple emergency operations after a twisted intestine caused most of her small bowel to die.
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PharmaJet®, a company that strives to improve the performance and outcomes of injectables with its enabling needle-free injection technology, today announced that it is expanding its needle-free injection portfolio with the development of a suite of proprietary, needle-free, self-injector pens.
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HeartX, powered by HealthTech Arkansas and MedAxiom — along with dozens of leading cardiovascular programs around the country — has selected the seven startup healthcare companies that will participate in the 2025 accelerator program.
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Acorai, a clinical-stage company pioneering non-invasive hemodynamic monitoring for heart failure management, this week announced topline results from the 1,600-patient CAPTURE-HF study (Machine-Learning Estimation of Pulmonary Capillary Wedge and Right Atrial Pressures With a Non-Invasive Multi-sensor Device).
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AtaCor Medical, Inc., a privately-held medical device company focused on transforming cardiac rhythm management systems, announced today that it has entered into a financing of up to $75 million.
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October 2, 2025 / EINPresswire.com/ DermaSensor Inc., a medical device technology company transforming skin cancer detection for frontline care, today announced it has raised $16 million in Series B funding to fuel the commercial expansion of its FDA cleared, non-invasive skin cancer detection solution.
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Plexāā, a medtech company focused on improving surgical outcomes through devices and digital products, announced today on the first day of Breast Cancer Awareness Month the U.S.
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Subtle Medical, a global leader in AI-powered medical imaging, today announced major growth milestones, projecting 2.5x annualized revenue growth in the U.S. for 2025, fueled by strong enterprise demand and new product introductions. Their U.S. adoption now spans more than 600 installations and well over 1000 globally.
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Zenflow, Inc., a medical device company developing innovative urological solutions, announced it has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the Zenflow Spring® Scope & Camera Control Unit (CCU).
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Relief Cardiovascular, a private company developing transcatheter smart implants to transform the treatment of heart failure, today announced the successful first-in-human use of the Relief System – the world’s first implant designed to both hemodynamically monitor and treat congestion in heart failure.
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SEPSIS-SHIELD study validates TriVerity™ as a breakthrough test that can transform hospital triage by providing early clarity on both infection type and illness severity
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EpiWatch, Inc. today announced that its app-based product, EpiWatch, an FDA-cleared and clinically validated mobile application for seizure detection, alerting and monitoring, is now available for direct download on the Apple App Store.
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Eko Health, a leader in AI-powered cardiac and pulmonary detection, announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has cleared its new EFAST algorithm for use within the SENSORA® platform.
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Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment, Peter Burke, and Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, James Lawless, today announced funding of €33.1 million for eight additional projects under Call 7 of the Disruptive Technologies Innovation Fund (DTIF).
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Winter Innovations, Inc has been awarded a $200,000 Technology Enhancement for CommercialPartnerships (TECP) grant from the U.S. NaConal Science FoundaCon (NSF).
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“Despite advances in digital health, continuous monitoring of the heart’s mechanical function has remained difficult outside clinical settings,” said Omer Inan, researcher and entrepreneur at Georgia Tech.
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Prevencio, Inc., a leader in AI-powered cardiovascular diagnostics, today announced a national agreement with MediGroup Physician Services, one of the largest non-acute Group Purchasing Organizations (GPOs) in the United States.
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While technology has always played a role in diagnosing and treating disease, the health care industry as a whole has been slower to adopt innovative digital platforms for analyzing data to change how care is delivered.
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This episode of Healthcare On Air explores the future of brain diagnostics and what it could mean for patients globally. Host Robin Goldsmith and co-host Brian Urban are joined by Ryan Meyers, Founder & CEO of CranioSense, to discuss how his team is developing what he calls the “blood pressure cuff for the brain.”
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– Peerbridge Health, a company transforming how heart disease is diagnosed has closed its latest fundraising round, raising $7M to support the commercial rollout of its new product.
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AccurKardia, an innovator in ECG-based diagnostics technology, has announced the initiation of a multicenter clinical pilot of AK+ GuardTM, an FDA Breakthrough Device Designated AI-powered technology that enables the detection of hyperkalemia using Lead I ECG.
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ClearCam, Inc., an Austin-based medical device company, has been awarded a national group purchasing agreement for Breakthrough Technology with Premier, Inc.
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ZKR Orthopedics announced today that the first Patella LIFT™ procedures on the East Coast were successfully performed as part of the PELICAN TRIAL, at the renowned Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) in New York City.
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Raydiant Oximetry, Inc., a clinical-stage medical device company developing fetal monitoring innovations using advanced biophotonics and machine learning to improve outcomes during childbirth, today announced the appointment of Michael Nagel as Chief Executive Officer.
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SutureTech, a surgeon-founded medical device company focused on advancing soft tissue and tendon repair, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted 510(k) clearance for RapidFix™, its flagship device.
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Not all cardiac arrests can be treated with an electric shock. In fact, most of them—about 80%—are ineligible for defibrillation. With a survival rate of about 4%, these deaths continue to number between 7 million and 9 million per year.
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The deal includes AI-powered software for detecting known side effects of recently launched Alzheimer’s drugs.
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SafeHeal®, a medical device innovator transforming colorectal surgery, today announced a €10 million extension of its oversubscribed €35 million Series C financing round.
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– PTM-101 administration in the 200 mg cohort has been completed without dose-limiting toxicity –
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Certification clears path in Japan for wider access to preventive medicine, telemedicine, and reduced provider burden
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Karen Cronholm, the CEO of Akeyna, Inc., and part of the historic first cohort of Auxilium stops by the Talk of the Commonwealth to tell us about her business and how Auxilium is providing assistance.
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Cellvie, a company pioneering therapeutics based on mitochondria, today announced the closing of a $5 million funding round, with participation from both existing and new investors.
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Koya Medical (“Koya”), a global leader in vascular health innovation, is proud to announce it has been honored with the Building Tomorrow Together Award by the Dallas Regional Chamber (DRC).
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MY01, an innovative medical technology company focused on transforming the diagnosis of limb perfusion injuries, today announced that Joe Kiani, founder of Masimo and a globally recognized leader in medical innovation, has invested in the company.
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OrthoPediatrics Corp. (Nasdaq: KIDS), a company focused exclusively on advancing the field of pediatric orthopedics announced today a new distribution partnership with MY01, an innovative medical technology company focused on transforming the diagnosis of limb perfusion injuries.
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According to a report in Globes, Edwards Lifesciences (NYSE: EW)+ agreed to acquire the remaining stake in Vectorious Medical Technologies.
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It is exciting when new products come to market that speak directly to our demographic.
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Nutromics is developing a wearable “lab-on-a-patch” device that uses DNA biosensors and microneedles to capture continuous, real-time molecular data.
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Inflammatix, a pioneering host response diagnostics company, today announced the publication of analytical data in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology (JCM) that validate the benefits of the TriVerity™ Test System (TriVerity), a first-in-class molecular blood test to help emergency department (ED) physicians quickly and accurately triage patients with suspected acute infection or sepsis.
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EQT Life Sciences is pleased to announce that the EQT Health Economics strategy has invested in Cyted Health, a leading gastrointestinal (GI) molecular diagnostics company.
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Catherine Liao is well-known to the sensors universe as a passionate technologist and entrepreneur. At this year’s Best of Sensors Awards, she also earned the distinction of Woman of the Year.
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Plexāā is thrilled to announce that they have joined Johnson & Johnson’s global incubator network, JLABS, as a virtual member company of JLABS EMEA. This marks a meaningful step in Plexāā’s mission to help patients prehabilitate and precondition before surgery through the power of supraphysiological preconditioningTM which has been shown to reduce wound healing complications in proof-of-concept clinical trials.
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Eko Health, a leader in AI-powered cardiac and pulmonary detection, today announced its participation in two upcoming investor conferences:
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Oxford, UK and Panama City, Panama — Newrotex Ltd., an Oxford-based medical technology company, today announced the successful first-in-human implantation of its flagship nerve repair technology, SilkAxons™.
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They will go on to represent Virginia at the global finals in San Francisco, competing against the world’s top startups for the $1 million grand prize. Their bold vision and relentless execution wowed both the judges and the audience, proving that Virginia innovation is ready for the world stage.
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Belfast-based neurotechnology company Neurovalens has closed a £6 million (€6.95 million) investment round to help fund its commercial expansion in the US and global markets.
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The University of Western Australia has invested $1 million into Perth-based medtech company OncoRes. The investment is UWA’s first in one of its 25 spinout companies.OncoRes chief executive Dr Katharine Giles said the investment would be welcomed as it moves towards potential US Food and Drug Administration approval of its Elora precision cancer imaging technology.
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Cohesys Inc., a Toronto-based medical device developer of resorbable fixation technologies, today announced that the first participants have undergone treatment with BoneTape™, an investigational device designed for the fixation of non-load-bearing craniofacial fractures.
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SafeHeal®, a leading innovator in the field of colorectal cancer surgery, today announced that it has been granted European Union marketing approval for its Colovac device under the new Medical Device Regulation (EU MDR 2017/745, Medical Devices, Annex IX Chapter I).
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RIVANNA®, developers of world-first imaging-based medical technologies, was recently awarded grant funding valued at $800,000 from the Virginia Catalyst Program to advance the Accuro® 3S diagnostic ultrasound system.
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Lungpacer Medical Inc., a medical technology company focused on neurostimulation therapies for critically ill patients, today announced that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has granted New Technology Add-on Payment (NTAP) status for the AeroPace® System under the Fiscal Year 2026 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) Final Rule, effective October 1, 2025.
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Dr. John Martin has a special perspective on medical device development as a practicing surgeon, medical device executive, and a patient who once found cancer in his own body while testing Butterfly Network’s technology.
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Teal Health®, a virtual women’s health company on a mission to eliminate cervical cancer, today announced the general availability of their Teal Wand™ for at-home cervical cancer screening kit and virtual telehealth services in California.
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In this episode, healthcare investor and strategist Maryann Umoren Selfe is joined by Matthias Wipf, CEO of Swiss medtech company Momm Diagnostics, to examine the systemic gaps in how we identify and fund life-saving healthcare infrastructure for women.
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SafeBeat announced today it has been awarded a Direct to Phase Il Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR grant for approximately $2M from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
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EvoEndo Inc. has announced that the EvoEndo Model LE Gastroscope is now FDA-cleared for patients of all ages — from neonates to adults. Since 2022, the EvoEndo System has been the only option available for sedation-free transnasal endoscopy for pediatric patients five and older.
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Inflammatix, a leader in host-response diagnostics, today announced that its TriVerity™ Test has been granted New Technology Add-On Payment (NTAP) reimbursement by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for fiscal year 2026.
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In this Founder Spotlight, we talk to Dan Clark, Co-Founder and CEO of Linear Health Sciences, about the journey behind creating life-saving medical devices like the Orchid Safety Release Valve.
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Cardiosense announced today that it received FDA 510(k) clearance for its CardioTag wearable sensor device.
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RIVANNA®, developers of imaging-based medical technologies, announced that it received $9.92 million in federal funding of a contractual option from the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), part of the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR) within the U.S.
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Embolx, a leader in advanced microcatheters for targeted embolization procedures, today announced the release of its next-generation Sniper G3 Balloon Occlusion Microcatheter.
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Veravas Inc., an innovator in diagnostics dedicated to advancing health outcomes through early disease detection, announced that two independent analyses, presented at the 2025 Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC), demonstrate that the VeraBIND Tau assay accurately measures active tau pathology—a key biomarker of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and other tauopathies—in individuals with and without cognitive impairment.
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Powerful Medical, a leader in AI-driven cardiovascular diagnostics, has been selected to receive over €40 million (USD $46 million) in non-dilutive grant funding through the European Commission’s IPCEI Tech4cure project initiative.
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Some medtech innovations don’t come from tweaking devices—they come from rethinking materials themselves.
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BRIJ Medical, Inc., a medical device company redefining surgical closure and post-surgical healing, and Red One Medical, LLC – a CVE-certified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) – are proud to announce that Brijjit® (BP-100 and BP-75) is now available through the ECAT (the electronic catalog).
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San Diego-based Cooler Heads, a medical device company specializing in products for cancer patients, announced it closed an oversubscribed $11 million Series A funding round.
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Prevencio, Inc., a pioneer in AI-powered cardiovascular diagnostics, today announced a strategic partnership with Heart Fit Clinic, Canada’s foremost network of preventive cardiology centers.
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Sandra Saldana wants to detect strokes before patients sense they are having one, preventing disability and saving lives along the way. Her company, Alva Health, recently received a big boost toward that goal when it received validation and funding from the National Science Foundation.
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Arsenal Medical has announced late-breaking data from the EMBO-02 clinical study evaluating NeoCast—a next-generation, shear-responsive liquid embolic agent—in the treatment of patients with chronic subdural haematoma (cSDH) via middle meningeal artery embolisation (MMAe).
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OncoRes Medical has been named one of TechRound’s Top 10 MedTech Startups in Australia 2025.
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Nanochon, a Washington, DC and Baltimore, MD-based orthopedic device biotech company developing an implant for treating articular cartilage defects in the knee, is thrilled to announce that it was granted Health Canada Approval for their first in human clinical trial.
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Eko Health, a leader in AI-powered cardiac and pulmonary care, announced today that its telehealth platform is now used by health systems that operate over 800 hospitals across the U.S.
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Newrotex Limited has received regulatory approval for its first-in-human clinical trial of SilkAxons™, an advanced bioengineered nerve guide designed to repair severe peripheral nerve injuries.
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GT Medical Technologies, Inc., a medical device company dedicated to improving the lives of patients with brain tumors, today announced the company has completed the close of its oversubscribed $53 million Series D equity financing.
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Cooler Heads, a health tech company dedicated to making scalp cooling more accessible and affordable for people undergoing chemotherapy, celebrates a major milestone in the effort to expand access to their hair-preserving treatment.
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Remote hemodynamics-guided management of heart failure (HF) with implantable pulmonary artery pressure sensors has been shown to reduce HF hospitalizations.
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Hypervision Surgical (“Hypervision”) proudly announces that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted 510(k) clearance for the HYPERSNAP® Surgical System — the first intraoperative platform to combine Hyperspectral Imaging (HSI) with AI-powered analytics for real-time surgical decision support.
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Wes Jones is the CEO of Vonova, a brain computer interface company that (unlike Neuralink) is enabling access to the brain without drilling a hole in your skull. Wes joins Brom Rector and Sam Tabone on the Human 3 podcast.
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PharmaJet®, a company that strives to improve the performance and outcomes of injectables with its enabling needle-free injection technology, today announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) agreement with the Egyptian Unified Procurement Authority (UPA) and EVA Pharma, one of the leading pharmaceutical companies driving healthcare innovation and access across the Middle East and Africa, to explore the integration of needle-free delivery of inactivated polio vaccine into Egypt’s routine immunization program.
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Solenic Medical, a leading innovator focused on revolutionizing orthopedic implant infection care, announced today the appointment of Bart Bandy as its new Chief Executive Officer.
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Newrotex Limited has received regulatory approval for its first-in-human clinical trial of SilkAxons™, an advanced bioengineered nerve guide designed to repair severe peripheral nerve injuries.
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Eko Health, a leader in artificial intelligence (AI) for the early detection of heart and lung diseases, today announced that its CORE 500® Digital Stethoscope has been awarded the internationally recognized Red Dot Design Award for product design excellence.
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Plexāā, a MedTech startup behind the award-winning BLOOM43 medical device for breast surgery, has announced the close of a $4.5 million funding extension round.
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PanTher Therapeutics (“PanTher” or the “Company”), a clinical-stage company redefining cancer treatment with therapeutics administered continuously and exclusively at the tumor site, today announced that the first patient has been treated with PTM-101 in a Phase 1b clinical trial in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC).
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Samsung Electronics is acquiring Seattle-based digital health startup Xealth, aiming to expand its footprint in healthcare. Founded in 2017 as a spinout of the Providence health system, Xealth helps healthcare providers prescribe and manage digital health tools.
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Cedars-Sinai Ventures is investing in an AI startup focused on structural heart care, Columbus (Ohio) Business First reported. The venture capital arm of the Los Angeles-based health system participated in a $5 million funding round in June for Dasi Simulations, which uses AI for predictive modeling, according to the July 3 story.
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Moon Surgical, today announced 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for two major advancements to its Maestro System: connectivity of the platform to power the Maestro Insights product and a Predetermined Change Control Plan (PCCP) to evolve its AI-powered ScoPilot product.
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DLA Piper advised ImmersiveTouch, a leading digital surgery company, in its strategic investment by HealthpointCapital, a private equity firm focused exclusively on musculoskeletal healthcare to acquire a majority of the equity interests of the company.
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CroíValve, a pioneering medical device company innovating a better way to help more patients suffering from Tricuspid Regurgitation (TR), was awarded funding from Horizon Europe’s European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator Programme.
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InterShunt Technologies has initiated the EASE HF2 early feasibility study to assess the InterShunt percutaneous atrial shunt catheter (PAS-C) system, intended to alleviate symptoms of heart failure and enhance the quality of life for patients.
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B3 GEL™ SYSTEM SUPPORTING RESEARCH: What Happens When You “Overapply” Tendon Protection?
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Swedish MedTech company Multi4 Medical, chaired by renowned investor Erik Selin, has received FDA clearance for its patended technology for automated cancer treatment. The decision means that Multi4 is now approved for commercial sale in the U.S., the world’s largest and most competitive healthcare market.
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HealthpointCapital, the leading private equity firm focused exclusively on musculoskeletal healthcare, today announced the acquisition of a majority stake in ImmersiveTouch, Inc. (“ImmersiveTouch” or the “Company”).
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Neurent Medical, a leader in non-surgical treatments for chronic rhinitis, today announced that Cigna Healthcare will provide coverage for NEUROMARK treatment of the posterior nasal nerve by removing CPT 31242 posterior nasal nerve ablation using radiofrequency from its Experimental & Investigational (E&I) list, effective September 15th, 2025.
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InterShunt Technologies, Inc., a medical device company focused on developing minimally invasive treatments for heart failure, has officially kicked off its latest clinical study, the EASE HF2 Early Feasibility Study, which is evaluating a device designed to reduce heart failure symptoms and improve quality of life.
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STENTiT, a pioneering medical device company, developing a novel class of stents with regenera6ve proper6es, today announced the successful implanta6on of its Resorbable Fibrillated Scaffold (RFS).
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Lattice Medical has created a 3D-printed, resorbable implant called MATTISSE, designed to use an oncology patient’s own fat tissue to regenerate one’s breast after undergoing a mastectomy.
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PharmaJet®, a company that strives to improve the performance and outcomes of injectables with its enabling needle-free injection technology, today announced that it has entered into an agreement with Immuno Cure, a prominent developer of DNA vaccines.
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Neuspera® Medical, Inc., the leading developer of integrated technologies powering the future of neuromodulation, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved its integrated sacral neuromodulation (iSNM) system for the treatment of urinary urge incontinence (UUI).
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Flosonics announced today that Mount Sinai Hospital has adopted FloPatch, its wireless Doppler ultrasound device.
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Droplet IV today announced the successful completion of a $2 million funding round to enable launch of its first automatic IV-line flushing device in the EU and US markets.
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BioMérieux, a world leader in the field of in vitro diagnostics, announces an agreement to acquire the assets of Day Zero Diagnostics, a US-based infectious disease diagnostics company using genome sequencing and machine learning to combat the rise of antibiotic-resistant infections.
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Alva Health, a medical device company pioneering wearable solutions for early stroke detection, has been awarded $500,000 from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase IIB program to conduct research and development on the company’s flagship product: a discreet, wrist-worn system designed to detect stroke symptoms in real time and enable faster access to emergency care.
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Moon Surgical, the French-American leader in Physical AI for the operating room, today announced its participation at NVIDIA GTC Paris during VivaTech2025.
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Neurent Medical, a leader in pioneering non-surgical solutions for chronic sino-nasal inflammatory diseases, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted 510(k) clearance for the company’s Next Generation NEUROMARK® System, marking a major milestone in advancing care for patients suffering from Chronic Rhinitis.
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Zeto, Inc. is proud to announce the success of a new onsite EEG program at Huntsville Memorial Hospital (HMH) that has helped reduce emergency room patient transfers and improve access to neurological diagnostics for the Huntsville community and surrounding areas.
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TEDCO, Maryland’s economic engine for technology companies, announced a recent $250,000 Pre-Seed Builder Fund investment in NanoBioFab. The Pre-Seed Builder Fund invests in and provides executive support to Maryland-based technology companies run by entrepreneurs who demonstrate economic disadvantages.
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Prevencio, Inc., the leader in artificial intelligence-powered blood tests for cardiovascular disease, today announced that it has been granted patents for its HART CADhs® test in the United States—marking the second U.S.
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Koya Medical, a medical device company focused on vascular health innovation, has completed its HQ relocation from Oakland, California, by opening its new headquarters in the Dallas Design District.
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Inflammatix, a leader in AI-powered immune response diagnostics, today announced the appointment of Martín Vazquez as chief operating officer (COO). The hire marks a major milestone in the company’s commercial expansion as its flagship TriVerity™ Test System gains traction among U.S. hospitals.
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Ingelheim, Germany, and San Francisco, Calif., June 10, 2025 | Boehringer Ingelheim, a global leader in animal health, and Eko Health, a pioneer in applying artificial intelligence (AI) for early detection of heart and lung diseases, have entered a strategic collaboration agreement.
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Cleveland Clinic is the first to use the Glean™ Urodynamics System, the first wireless, catheter-free method of urodynamic monitoring following 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in March.
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TYBR Health, a medical device and regenerative medicine company, today announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance for the B3 GEL™ System.
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LEADOPTIK Inc., a Silicon Valley-based medical imaging company, today announced it has been awarded key patents for its proprietary optical probe across three continents: North America, Europe, and Asia.
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Patients with advanced heart failure will be treated with FlowMaker®, an innovative, fully implantable device for restoring cardiac output.
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Averto Medical, Distalmotion, and Model Medicines were featured in Fierce Medtech’s Fierce 15.
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Maryland Comptroller Brooke Lierman presented the inaugural Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Awards to 15 distinguished AAPI business owners and community leaders during a ceremony held on May 28, 2025, at the Louis L. Goldstein Treasury Building in Annapolis.
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CoapTech Inc., a Baltimore-based medical device company, announced today the initial close of a Series B funding round, which was led by Good Growth Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in transformative science and technology, with participation from the University System of Maryland (USM) Momentum Fund (Momentum Fund) and the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB), a previous investor.
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Eindhoven, the Netherlands, May 27, 2025: Salvia BioElectronics, a clinical-stage medical device company pioneering neuromodulation therapy for people with chronic migraine, today announced the successful completion of a $60 million (€53 million) Series B financing round.
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Gradient Denervation Technologies, which is based in Paris, France, announced that the company’s pulmonary artery denervation (PADN) system has received FDA Breakthrough Device designation.
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PhotoniCare Inc., a medical device company dedicated to delivering innovation to frontline care that demonstrably enhances patient outcomes, is pleased to announce its progress in the diagnosis and treatment of pediatric ear infections that affect more than 80 percent of children by age three, account for millions of visits to the pediatrician each year, and are the leading cause of antibiotic use in children.
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London-based healthtech unicorn Huma is accelerating its growth by acquiring US respiratory health startup Aluna, and a new strategic partnership with Eckuity Capital to support a broader M&A strategy.
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The PUMA-G Pediatric device is now cleared by the U.S. FDA for use in children. This device will enable an ultrasound-based gastrostomy procedure for kids, with the potential to reduce radiation, sedation, procedure time, scarring, and infections while greatly expanding the accessibility of gastrostomy procedures for children worldwide.
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Prevencio, Inc., the leader in artificial intelligence-powered blood tests for cardiovascular diagnostics, announces that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Breakthrough Device Designation to its HART CADhs® test.
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GE HealthCare (Nasdaq: GEHC) and Raydiant Oximetry, Inc. today announced a joint development initiative to enhance fetal monitoring capabilities that could strengthen the support of clinical decision-making during labor.
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Teal Health®, a women’s health company on a mission to eliminate cervical cancer, today announced the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) approval of the Teal Wand™, the first and only at-home vaginal sample self-collection device for cervical cancer screening in the United States.
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AccurKardia, an innovator in ECG-based diagnostics technology, today announced that its AccurECGTM software platform has been selected as winner of the “Best New Technology Solution for ECG”
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PATH EX, Inc., a medical device company located in the Texas Medical Center Innovation Factory, is excited to announce the successful completion of a $5 million financing round.
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Every year in the U.S., about 6% of emergency room visits are due to sepsis, an extreme immune system reaction to infection that can lead to organ failure and death in a short period of time.
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Conavi Medical Corp. (TSXV: CNVI; OTCQB: CNVIF) (“Conavi Medical” or the “Company”), a medical device company focused on designing, manufacturing, and marketing imaging technologies to guide common minimally invasive cardiovascular procedures, today announced that its Novasight Hybrid™ System (“Novasight”) has been named “Product Innovation of the Year”
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INBRAIN Neuroelectronics, a clinical-stage neurotechnology company developing precision brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) powered by graphene, announced today it has been awarded a €4 million grant by the Spanish Ministry of Industry and Tourism through the PERTE Chip initiative.
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Zetagen Therapeutics, Inc., a private, clinical stage, biopharmaceutical company focused on developing breakthrough therapies, via local administration, for metastatic and primary breast cancers, announced today they have successfully completed enrollment in their phase 2a study, which will evaluate ZetaMet™ (Zeta-BC-003) in the treatment of spinal metastatic lytic breast cancer lesions (ClinicalTrials.gov #NCT05280067).
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SafeHeal has pulled in €35m ($39.7m) in Series C equity financing to validate its Colovac endoluminal bypass system.
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The European Investment Bank (EIB) and Sidekick Health — a global leader in integrated digital health and therapeutics — today announced the signing of a €35 million venture debt facility, backed by a dedicated life science venture debt window of the European Commission’s InvestEU programme.
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Vonova Inc. has secured seed financing from a consortium of investors including XEIA, Device of Tomorrow Capital, and SmartGate VC. This investment milestone represents significant market validation for Vonova’s Cerebro Clear system, which includes a revolutionary endovascular platform that provides access to the brain without drilling through the skull.
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Sonavex, Inc., a privately held medical device company with ultrasound technologies that deliver quantitative blood flow and other critical vascular data at the point of care, announced today that it has received U.S.
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Medical device company Zenflow has reported that its Spring System demonstrated durable benefits three years post-placement for individuals with benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) in the ZEST pilot studies.
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Cancer ranks as one of the top causes of death worldwide. The National Cancer Institute reported nearly 20 million new cancer cases and 9.7 million cancer-related deaths globally in 2022, with projections showing a rise to 29.9 million new cases by 2040.
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Biolinq Incorporated, a healthcare technology company pioneering precision multi-analyte biosensors to improve metabolic health, today announced a $100 million Series C financing led by Alpha Wave Ventures, with participation from existing investors RiverVest Venture Partners, AXA IM Alts, LifeSci Venture Partners, M Ventures, Hikma Ventures, Aphelion Capital, Taisho Pharmaceutical and Features Capital.
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One of the more sorrowful consequences of our opioid crisis is the use of opioids among pregnant women and their impact on newborns. Prenatal opioid exposure (POE) can result in a postnatal withdrawal condition in newborns called neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome (NOWS).
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In January 2024, Osteoboost achieved a notable regulatory milestone by receiving De Novo classification from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
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Satio and Nanowear have agreed to partner to advance patient-friendly, home-based diagnostic, and therapeutic care. This collaboration integrates Nanowear’s at-home AI-based nanotechnology biomarker diagnostic platform with Satio’s at-home blood draw diagnostics and drug delivery systems/patches: combining time synchronous, in vivo and in vitro diagnostics for precision therapeutics and individualized AI-based risk assessment.
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X-Bolt Trauma Orthopedics is a company that brings simplicity and efficiency to trauma surgery, whilst improving quality of life for patients. Pulse 2.0 interviewed X-Bolt Trauma Orthopedics founder and CEO Dr. Brian Thornes to learn more about the company.
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Innoblative Designs, Inc. (Innoblative), a private medical device company addressing clinical unmet needs for patients with breast cancer, announced today that the U.S.
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Montreal-based startup Puzzle Medical Devices announced today the closing of a CA$43 million funding round. This round, led by KF Matheson and Desjardins Capital , with participation from Lumira Ventures , Longview Ventures , BDC Capital and existing investors, is one of the largest medical device rounds in Canada in the past two years.
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Ypsomed and Sidekick Health are launching an integrated digital health solution to better support people with obesity. Ypsomed’s autoinjectors seamlessly integrate into Sidekick’s digital health and chronic condition support app to help patients using GLP-1-based injectable therapies manage their treatment more effectively.
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Healionics Corporation, a developer of synthetic biomaterial-based medical devices, today announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued patent no.
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Makani Science, an innovator in wearable respiratory monitoring technology, today announced that it has achieved 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market and distribute its Makani Respiratory Monitor.
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Bright Uro, a medical device company with a mission to transform care for lower urinary tract dysfunction (LUTD) through innovations in urodynamics, today announced that the U.S.
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Zeto, Inc., a fast-growing medical technology company revolutionizing EEG diagnostics with its cutting-edge devices and advanced cloud platform, announces the integration of live bedside AI-powered Seizure Burden and Status Epilepticus detection.
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Avisi Technologies, a clinical-stage ophthalmic device company, today announced encouraging six‐month interim results from the VITA trial evaluating its VisiPlate® device, an ultrathin, multichannel aqueous shunt in study subjects diagnosed with open-angle glaucoma.
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted expanded 510(k) clearance for Epitel’s REMI Wireless electroencephalogram (EEG) System for neurological monitoring in infants and paediatric patients aged one year and above.
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Caretaker Medical is honored to announce it has been awarded the Healthcare Technology Innovation Award, along with a $200,000 grant, from the Medical Society of the District of Columbia (MSDC) at the 5th annual Capital Healthcare Honors Gala.
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TOKYO & KAGOSHIMA, Japan & SEATTLE – Tokyo & Kagoshima, Japan (March 28, 2025 JST) / Seattle, Washington, USA (March 27, 2025 PT): Shin Nippon Biomedical Laboratories, Ltd.
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Varian, a Siemens Healthineers company, announced a U.S. co-marketing and sales agreement with Embolx for the sale and market development of the Sniper Balloon Occlusion Microcatheter.
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Northtowns Ambulatory Surgery Center (ASC), a joint venture between Buffalo surgeons and Kaleida Health Ventures, has chosen Distalmotion’s DEXTER® Robotic Surgery System as its outpatient surgical robot of choice, marking a major milestone in expanding access to robotic surgery by addressing existing barriers to surgical robotics in outpatient care.
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OncoRes Medical was featured on Nine News, showcasing our groundbreaking Elora device that helps surgeons identify cancerous tissue during breast cancer removal surgeries.The story took viewers inside our Perth headquarters where CEO Kath Giles demonstrated how this innovative technology works to dramatically reduce the need for multiple surgeries – a game-changer for breast cancer patients worldwide.
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Inflammatix receives an initial $1.2 million to cover the first phase of system evaluation, with future phase options worth up to $20.8 million
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Xealth, the leader in digital health enablement for health systems, today announced a strategic investment from Morningside Ventures, a leading investor in healthcare innovation.
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Cyted Health, a leading gastrointestinal molecular diagnostics company, today announces the enrollment of the first patient in the DETECT-ME clinical validation study (NCT06803927).
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Nanowear, a leader in home-based cardiometabolic digital diagnostics announced that SimpleSense™, a nanotechnology-enabled wearable, mobile and software diagnostics platform, will ingest glucose data from Dexcom G7 Continuous Glucose Monitoring Systems (CGM) time synchronously alongside Nanowear’s previously FDA cleared cardiovascular biomarkers.
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Dr. Joshua Reicher, co-founder and CEO of IMVARIA, initially missed the opportunity to develop a company similar to DraftKings and instead decided to focus on saving lives.
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AtaCor Medical, Inc., a privately-held medical device company focused on transforming cardiac rhythm management, announced today that it has initiated its ASCEND EV study.
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Company Appoints Medical Device and Healthcare Industry Veteran with 20 Years of Experience
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Accuryn Medical, a company dedicated to addressing acute kidney injury through real-time renal monitoring and assessment based on global clinical practice guidelines, today announced that Todd Dunn, Accuryn’s Chief Transformation Officer, will transition to a new role leading the company as Chief Executive Officer.
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Sibel Health, an award-winning medical technology company, is pleased to announce the closing of $30 million in new equity financing and its 7th FDA 510(k) clearance.
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LEADOPTIK Inc., a Silicon Valley-based medical imaging company today announced that it has entered into a research collaboration with Stanford Medicine to explore the use of AI-enhanced real-time optical imaging in lung biopsy procedures.
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Moon Surgical announced today that it received FDA clearance for ScoPilot, a Nvidia-enabled platform for its Maestro surgical robot. The Paris-based company also announced further integrations with Nvidia technologies, including the Isaac for Healthcare platform.
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MY01, an innovative medical technology company dedicated to transforming the diagnosis of limb perfusion injuries, is excited to announce that the inclusion of Perfusion Pressure, a key physiological indicator for complications like compartment syndrome or acute limb ischemia, on the MY01 Mobile Application, has received 510(k) marketing authorization from the FDA, along with Breakthrough Designation.
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Medical imaging today faces several critical challenges. Imaging modalities like MRI, PET, and CT are used in over five hundred million patients annually for diagnosis and treatment, involving long scan times and/or potentially high radiation and contrast dosage.
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Moon Surgical, a French-American pioneer in surgical innovation, announced today the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance for ScoPilot.
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Bruin BiometricsFor helping detect bedsores in patients regardless of skin color
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Subtle Medical, a global leader in AI-powered medical imaging enhancement, announced today that SubtleHD™ has received CE Mark certification, officially launching the solution in Europe. The software is designed to dramatically improve MRI image quality, reduce scan times by up to 80%, and optimize radiology workflows.
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Wellinks, a digital healthcare company specializing in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) management, today announced a strategic partnership with CareAbout Health, a leading healthcare management company.
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Radiotherapy relies on the use of a variety of rays that target and damage tumors, gradually destroying them. It is particularly favored in the treatment of the nearly 3.5 million people suffering from prostate or breast cancer in Europe and the United States, according to a study conducted by Rothschild for the Montpellier-based biotech company NovaGray.
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RevBio, Inc., announced that it has received regulatory and ethics committee approvals in multiple European countries to conduct its pivotal clinical trial for its dental implant stabilization product.
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For developing a non-invasive lung function monitoring device to support people with respiratory conditions, conducting extensive clinical trials, and securing the largest funding round for a Latina-led medtech company in the U.S.
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Spineart, a fast-growing company in spine surgery innovation, and eCential Robotics, an expert company in surgical robotics, proudly announce the 510(k) clearance from the U.S.
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The Discure System from Discure Technologies Ltd. is changing the way mid-stage degenerative disc disease (DDD) is treated. The device is a bioelectronic technology implanted via injection into a disc during an outpatient, minimally invasive procedure intended to reverse early DDD.
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Announcing a $65 million Series F financing round, MicroTransponder®, Inc., one of the fastest-growing stroke companies, is transforming the stroke continuum of care with its FDA-approved Vivistim® Paired VNS™ System.
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Centerline Biomedical, Inc. (“Centerline”), an innovative leader in cardiovascular navigation and visualization systems, announced that the company has received US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance of expanded indications for its Intra-Operative Positioning System (IOPS).
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Christopher R. Idelson, ClearCam; Maansi Srinivasan, ClearCam; Austin Fagerberg, McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas, ClearCam; John M. Uecker, Dell Medical School, The University of Texas at Austin and ClearCam; Douglas G.
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May Health, a Paris- and California-based, clinical-stage medical device company dedicated to the development of a new treatment for Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS), today announced that Colby Holtshouse has joined the Company as President and CEO.
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Lungpacer Medical announced today that it received FDA investigational device exemption (IDE) to begin a trial for its AeroNova system. The STARI (stimulation to activate respiration) trial evaluates the feasibility of the investigational AeroNova system.
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CLEW, a leading provider of AI-driven clinical surveillance solutions, today announced the launch of its Sepsis Virtual Unit (SVU), designed to help healthcare organizations improve sepsis detection, enhance SEP-1 compliance, and drive better patient outcomes.
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iDentical is changing the paradigm of implant dentistry with the first drill-free, patient-specific, 3D-printed dental implants. By leveraging 3D scanning and CAD/CAM technology, a patient-specific, one-piece dental implant can be modeled from the patient’s own tooth root and then 3D-printed in titanium with unique design features.
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When promoting the ReConstruct technology, which improve the lives of patients undergoing breast reconstruction, our social media team found that the use of the world “breast”
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Nearly 30 years of work have come to fruition. ” We founded NovaGray in 2015 with Professor David Azria, an oncologist. When we met in 2015, he had been working for nearly 20 years on developing tests to assess patients’ tolerance to radiotherapy ,” says Clemence Franc, CEO of NovaGray.
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Accuryn Medical, a company dedicated to addressing acute kidney injury (AKI), through real-time renal monitoring and assessment based on global clinical practice guidelines, today announced that they have shipped 100,000 SmartFoley catheters across the United States.
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Funding will enable HealthTech Connex, a life sciences company based in Surrey, to expand its operations. The company’s advanced brain imaging medical device, NeuroCatch® Platform, evaluates cognitive function within six minutes at the point-of-care.
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Discure Technologies, a clinical-stage medical device company pioneering treatments for degenerative disc disease and other orthopedic disorders, today announced its acceptance into the U.S.
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Israel-based biomedical company Nurami Medical has raised US$30 million in its latest funding round. The funds will help expand its workforce and scale operations, including the construction of a commercial manufacturing facility, research and development lab, and clean rooms for producing its first FDA-approved product.
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Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX) today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire SoniVie Ltd., a privately held medical device company that has developed the TIVUS™ Intravascular Ultrasound System.
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CytoChip announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted 510(k) clearance and a CLIA Waiver for its CitoCBC, making it the first cartridge-based CBC test to achieve this milestone.
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Neurovalens, a global leader in noninvasive neurostimulation technology, is making significant strides in addressing chronic insomnia among U.S. veterans.
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Bright Uro, a medical device company with a mission to transform care for lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) through innovations in urodynamics, today announced the appointment of its new Chief Medical Officer, Dr.
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In this episode of the DeviceTalks Weekly Podcast, Host Tom Salemi talks with Dr. Maria Artunduaga, the founder and CEO of Samay, a startup that’s using acoustic energy to get a clearer picture of the lung’s performance.
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OXOS Medical has gained U.S. Food and Drug Administration clearance for its MC2 Portable X-ray System.
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Subtle Medical, the global leader in AI-powered medical imaging enhancement, announced today the FDA clearance for Subtle-HD™, the industry’s most advanced MRI acceleration and enhancement software to date.
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Original research article published by Frontiers, a top peer-reviewed scientific journal
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Epitel, Inc., a leader in AI technologies for patient-focused brain health solutions, is pleased to announce that Steve Pacelli has been appointed as the company’s new Chief Executive Officer.
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Cylinder, the employee benefit provider for digestive health, is proud to announce it has been recognized by two major honors. Cylinder has been named to the 2025 New York Digital Health 100 (DH100), an annual list recognizing the most innovative and impactful companies in digital health.
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Access Vascular, Inc. (AVI), a leader in tackling critical vascular access challenges with its advanced hydrophilic biomaterial technology, today announced that its portfolio of vascular access catheters made with MIMIX® technology has been added to Recon Supply’s Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) contract, as well as their Distribution and Pricing Agreement (DAPA) with the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA).
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Feb. 11, 2021- Access Vascular, Inc. today announced FDA clearance of its HydroMIDTM midline catheter. HydroMID, which is made of Access Vascular’s proprietary biomaterial that has been shown to reduce thrombus accumulation by up to 97 percent when compared to standard polyurethane catheters,1 is the second device in its planned portfolio to obtain clearance.
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Retia Medical, an innovator in AI algorithms for patient monitoring and management, announced that it has entered into an agreement with Medtronic plc, a global leader in healthcare technology, to distribute the Argos Cardiac Output Monitor designed to provide healthcare professionals with highly accurate hemodynamic data to support the treatment of high-risk surgical and critically ill patients.
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Concord Health Partners (“Concord”), a healthcare focused investment firm, today announced recent transactions by two of its behavioral health portfolio companies.
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Sibel Health, a leading digital health company, announced today that its continuous wearable monitoring solution, ANNE® One, has received another 510(k) clearance from the U.S.
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MicroTransponder recently announced positive real-world outcomes for its Vivistim vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) system. Data highlighted Vivistim’s impact when paired with occupational or physical therapy to help ischemic stroke survivors improve hand and arm function.
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Robeauté, a start-up which promises to transform brain surgeries with microrobots the size of a grain of rice, has raised $28 million in its latest funding round.
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Arsenal Medical, a clinical-stage company developing medical devices from innovative biomaterials, today announced the complete enrollment of an initial cohort of 10 patients in the EMBO-02 clinical study of NeoCast™ to treat chronic subdural hematomas (cSDH) across three sites in Australia.
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In Medtech Pioneers episode 8, Lisa Carmel sits down with Maria Artunduaga, MD, MPH, MTM, founder and CEO of Samay — The Winner of the 2024 MedTech Innovator Grand Prize focused on building hardware, software, and a data analytics platform to do pulmonary function remotely, not invasively, and affordable for patients who have respiratory disease.
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AccurKardia, a pioneer in ECG-based diagnostics technology, has announced a major milestone: the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Breakthrough Device Designation to its AK+ Guard™ hyperkalemia detection software.
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Today marks one year since my mother, Viji, passed away. She was the inspiration behind Aidar Health, the driving force behind everything I’ve worked for, and a shining example of resilience, love, and determination.
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Samay recently made history by becoming the first Latin American company to win the Grand Prize at Medtech Innovator’s 2024 conference, which awarded the start-up $350,000 in nondilutive cash and cast a venerated spotlight on its impactful work in the COPD space.
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TriVerity expected to enable timely and confident decision-making for emergency departments
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TEDCO, Maryland’s economic engine for technology companies, announced a $200,000 Pre-Seed Builder Fund investment in NanoBioFAB. The Pre-Seed Builder Fund invests in and provides executive support to Maryland-based technology companies run by entrepreneurs who demonstrate economic disadvantage.
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NeuroBionics, a neurotech company revolutionizing neuromodulation therapy with minimally invasive implantable devices, today announced the successful close of its $5 million Seed Round.
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GT Medical Technologies, Inc. (GT MedTech), a medical device company with a corporate purpose of improving the lives of patients with brain tumors, today announced the company has completed a $37 million first close of a Series D financing round.
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Plexāā, a London-based medical device startup, has joined forces with Panasonic Manufacturing UK to scale the production of its award-winning BLOOM⁴³ medical device.
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You can’t start a company without a healthy dose of daring, and that’s certainly the case with NeuroBionics. The MIT-spinout thinks it could one day improve the lives of millions of people who live with neurological conditions like depression, epilepsy, and Parkinson’s disease.
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Novus Diagnostics Secures €4.6M in Equity Financing to Revolutionize Rapid Point-of-Care Diagnostics. Novus Diagnostics, a pioneering medical technology company, proudly announces the successful closing of a €4.6M equity financing round.
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Alleviant Medical, Inc., a privately held medical device company developing a no-implant atrial shunt for heart failure, today announced a $90 million financing to fund its second pivotal trial.
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Berkeley, Calif. – January 13, 2025 − IMVARIA Inc., a health tech company pioneering AI-driven digital biomarker solutions, today announced its second FDA authorization, securing 510(k) clearance from the U.S.
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Brussels, January 13, 2025. Synergia Medical SA, a leader in developing optoelectronic medical devices, is pleased to announce the successful implantation of its groundbreaking NAO.VNSTM system in three more patients, bringing the total to five, as part of the AURORA study.
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Background: Non-invasive, continuous blood pressure monitoring technologies require additional validation beyond standard cuff-based methods. This study evaluates a non-invasive, multiparametric wearable cuffless blood pressure (BP) diagnostic monitor across all hypertension classes with diverse subjects.
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The 1966 science fiction film Fantastic Voyage imagined a technology that could shrink people to microscopic size so they could use a tiny submarine to travel through a person’s body and repair a blood clot in an injured scientist’s brain.
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Universal Brain, a pioneering technology company focused on transforming mental healthcare through neuroscience, today announced the publication of its latest peer-reviewed study, “Neurotyping depression using multiple event-related potentials (ERPs): Leveraging task-based variation to predict remission in depression,”
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Horizon Technology Finance Corporation (NASDAQ: HRZN) (“Horizon” or the “Company”), an affiliate of Monroe Capital, and a leading specialty finance company that provides capital in the form of secured loans to venture capital-backed companies in the technology, life science, healthcare information and services, and sustainability industries, today announced it has provided a $35 million venture loan facility to Onkos Surgical (“Onkos”), of which $30 million has been initially funded.
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In the wearables category, startup Ozlo displayed its “Sleepbuds” – a pair of Bluetooth-enabled earbuds developed by former Bose engineers that help users fall asleep faster by masking outside noises like snoring or police sirens.
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InkSpace Imaging, a leader in MRI coil innovation, today announced that the United States (US) Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared InkSpace Imaging’s next-generation 1.5 Tesla (1.5T) 24-channel MR coil for Siemens Healthineers Magnetom MRI scanners.
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Relief Cardiovascular, an inQB8 Medical Technologies portfolio company pioneering innovative solutions for the management of heart failure, today announced the closing of a $12M Series A financing.
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Zeto, Inc., a fast-growing medical technology company revolutionizing EEG diagnostics with its cutting-edge devices and AI-driven cloud platform, has announced the recent successful closing of a $31 million funding round.
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AccurKardia has received breakthrough device designation by FDA for its ECG-based, AI-powered AK+ Guard hyperkalemia detection software. The investigational technology uses lead I ECG data to alert patients and clinicians of moderate to severe episodes of hyperkalemia (excess potassium in the blood) that can lead to sudden cardiac arrest.
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AirStrip®, a leader in advanced clinical monitoring and alarm management solutions, has announced the acquisition of DECISIO® Health, a provider of innovative clinical decision support and visualization tools.
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At Prana Thoracic, we’ve always been dedicated to innovation that transforms lives, starting with our advancements in precision surgery for lung cancer. Today, we’re excited to share a pivotal step in our journey: Prana Thoracic is becoming Prana Surgical.
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As 2024 comes to a close, I’ve been reflecting on the incredible path I’ve traveled since founding Blumio eight years ago. Leaving big tech to start a wearable blood pressure company was a leap into the unknown—a decision driven by a belief in the power of technology to transform health outcomes.
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Moon Surgical sits down with Joe Mullings for an update on Moon Surgical.
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Proton Intelligence Inc., developing the first-ever Continuous Potassium Monitoring (CKM™) platform, today announced the closing of its $6.95 million USD Seed Financing round joined by SOSV, We Venture Capital, Tenmile, LongeVC, 15th Rock, Exor, and Trampoline Venture Partners.
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Nitinotes has successfully closed a $9.3M SAFE round led by MTIP, with participation from Techwald Holdings and Elron. This funding supports preparations for commercialization, regulatory approval, and scaling of the EndoZip™ system.
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Gabriel Sanchez, co-founder and CEO of Enspectra Health, earned his bachelor’s degree from MIT and his master’s and PhD in mechanical engineering from Stanford.
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Fluid Biomed Inc., a clinical stage medical device company developing lifesaving products for patients suffering from vascular disease, closed an oversubscribed $27 million USD Series A equity financing.
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Flow Medical is developing a thrombolysis catheter to improve the treatment of blood clots in pulmonary embolism patients. The Chicago-based startup designed its minimally invasive system with a novel nitinol scaffold that perforates blood clots and infuses them with tissue plasminogen activator (TPA), a thrombolytic drug commonly referred to as a clot-buster.
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Juan C. Jimenez began his career in finance and investment banking, specializing in M&A transactions at Credit Suisse. After the 2008-2009 financial crisis, he pivoted to real estate distressed credit investment, which led him to a surprising role as President of a non-emergency medical transportation company.
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Liquet Medical Inc., a pioneering medical device company committed to advancing patient care through innovative technologies, today announced it has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S.
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Central New York Biotech Accelerator (CNYBAC) — Zetagen Therapeutics, Inc., a private, clinical stage, biopharmaceutical company focused on developing proprietary carriers delivering tumoricidal therapies for metastatic and primary breast cancer, minimizing patient side effects with the potential to increase survival rates, announced today in-vivo results of their dose optimization study of ZetaMAST™ (Zeta-MBC-005).
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Thank you to the FBomb Angels for a meaningful investment that supports our mission to transform health equity and sepsis detection through our VitalO₂ monitor.
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Centerline Biomedical, Inc. (“Centerline”), an innovative leader in cardiovascular navigation and visualization systems, announced that the company has received US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance for its new IOPS Guidewire Handle.
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PhotoniCare Inc., a medical device company dedicated to delivering innovation to frontline care that demonstrably enhances patient outcomes, is pleased to announce that it has secured $4.6 million in Series B financing, formed a manufacturing partnership with Gentex Corporation for its first-in-class, FDA-cleared OtoSight™ Middle Ear Scope, and finalized the relocation of its headquarters from Champaign, Illinois to Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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The Ozlo Sleepbuds are the most comfortable sleep earbuds I’ve tested, and they’re $30 off during Cyber Monday. But jump on this deal while it’s still live.
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There are two different primary types of strokes. Diagnosing the correct one is crucial-but can take hours. Ballatori’s and Shahrestani’s company, StrokeDx has developed portable imaging devices that determine stroke type in minutes.
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CANCER FUND is pleased to announce its investment in NXgenPort, an early-stage company developing technology to advance remote monitoring of cancer patients’ health. This marks Cancer Fund I’s seventh investment and reflects its dedication to fostering impactful innovations in oncology.
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InkSpace Imaging, a leader in MRI coil innovation, has announced the submission for FDA clearance of its next-generation body array for Siemens Healthineers Magnetom 1.5 Tesla MRI scanners.
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Gravitas Medical, Inc. is pleased to announce that it received Neonatal 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). This clearance allows Gravitas Medical to market its revolutionary Entarik technology to the US neonatal population.
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Acorai, a Swedish developer and manufacturer of innovative devices for heart failure management, announced the closing of a $4.5M investment from the EIC Fund, Taiwan Medical University, and private investors.
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Maria Artunduaga’s grandmother never smoked. However, like many members of her generation, she was exposed to second-hand cigarette smoke much of her life.
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Zenflow, Inc., a medical device company developing a minimally invasive treatment for urinary obstruction caused by enlarged prostate, or benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), today announced that it has closed a $24 million Series C financing round.
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Healionics Corporation, a developer of synthetic biomaterial-based medical devices, today announced that its STARgraft arteriovenous graft – designed to provide a safer and more reliable means of bloodstream access for kidney failure patients needing dialysis – has been granted Breakthrough Device designation by the FDA.
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MyBiometry has secured a $5m investment in an oversubscribed seed funding round to propel the development of its fenoTRACK device for asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
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Central New York Biotech Accelerator (CNYBAC) — Zetagen Therapeutics, Inc., a private, clinical stage, biopharmaceutical company focused on developing breakthrough therapies, via local administration, for metastatic breast cancer to bone and soft tissues, announced today that the first two patients have enrolled in the phase 2a study, which will evaluate ZetaMet™ (Zeta-BC-003) in the treatment of spinal metastatic lytic breast cancer lesions (ClinicalTrials.gov #NCT05280067).
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A long-sought goal in dermatology has been the development of an imaging modality with sufficient resolution and compositional detail to noninvasively interrogate skin histology in vivo.
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Medical device developer Plio Surgical was announced as the overall winner at an all-island investor readiness competition, taking home €100,000. The annual InterTradeIreland all-island Seedcorn Investor Readiness Competition aims to improve the investor readiness of new-start and early-stage businesses across the island.
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Over the 10 years since Paul Grand created the medtech industry’s largest accelerator, it has helped start-ups launch many innovative medical products. We speak with the founders of ExplORer Surgical, BardyDx, and Pathology Watch about the role MedTech Innovator played in their successful exits.
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Bright Uro, a medical device company with a mission to transform care for lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) through innovations in urodynamics, today announced the second closing of its Series A funding round, which was oversubscribed by nearly 40% above and secured a total of $32M for the company.
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Telix Pharmaceuticals Limited (ASX: TLX, Telix, the Company) today announces a partnership with California-based Subtle Medical, Inc. (Subtle Medical) for artificial intelligence (AI)-powered positron emission tomography (PET) imaging with Telix’s commercial PSMA-PET1 product, Illuccix® (68Ga-PSMA-11).
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MDC is revolutionizing surgery with a novel robotic system that provides physicians direct access inside MRI scanners.
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InBrain Neuroelectronics announced today that it closed a Series B financing round with proceeds totaling $50 million. The Barcelona, Spain-based company also secured additional funding and support from Merck KGaA.
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Trinity Biotech plc (TRIB), a commercial-stage biotechnology company focused on human diagnostics and diabetes management solutions, including wearable biosensors, today announced a strategic investment in Novus Diagnostics, a company pioneering a rapid sepsis testing platform.
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DeepHealth has acquired Kheiron Medical Technologies Limited, a UK-based AI cancer diagnostic company focused on developing deep learning solutions to support radiologists improve breast cancer detection.
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The National Sleep Foundation (NSF) named Loop Earplugs, UBlockout, and Neurovalens as winners of the 2024 SleepTech® Award. NSF’s SleepTech Award recognizes the year’s most innovative efforts in advancing sleep technology and is a feature of NSF’s ongoing work to encourage and celebrate efforts when sleep science and insight are rapidly incorporated into accessible health products and services.
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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has announced the winners of the Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics Technology (RADx® Tech) for Maternal Health Challenge, an $8 million prize competition to encourage development of postpartum maternal health diagnostics for use in regions that have limited access to maternity care.
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VitalStream can help hospitals reduce their reliance on IV fluids for blood pressure measurement and can be used to decide which patients benefit from fluid.
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AccurKardia, an innovator in ECG-based diagnostics technology, has announced that its Aortic Valve Stenosis (AVS) ECG-based AI screening software has been granted Breakthrough Device Designation by the U.S.
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Actress Emma Watson has made a previously undisclosed investment into the women’s health company Hertility, bringing its total funding to more than $14 million, the company told TechCrunch in an interview on Monday.
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Wellinks Inc., a New Haven-based digital healthcare firm, said Monday it has acquired San Francisco-based medical device and data company Spire Health in a non-cash transaction.
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Open Mind Health, a leading provider of innovative mental telehealth and holistic wellness solutions, and NeuroFlow, a renowned leader in behavioral health technology infrastructure, are partnering to strengthen Open Mind Health’s delivery of measurement-based care.
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At the Meta Connect 2024 conference, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the company is developing a “neural interface” that can be used to control its prototypical Orion AR glasses.
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Sonavex, Inc., a privately held medical device company with ultrasound technologies that deliver quantitative blood flow and other critical vascular data at the point of care, announced today that it was awarded a $2 million Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase IIB Grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to advance EchoGuide, Sonavex’s pipeline product designed to reduce cannulation injury for dialysis patients.
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Raydiant Oximetry, Inc., a clinical-stage medical device company developing innovations to keep mothers and babies safe during childbirth, has announced the receipt of a $1 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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VitalStream offers veterans uninterrupted hemodynamic and vital signs monitoring to aid in the early detection of decline and precise treatment.
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CardiaCare is a clinical stage Digital Therapeutic company that develops the world’s first closed loop wearable for non-invasive treatment of cardiac and other Central Nervous System related clinical symptoms.
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EDAP TMS SA, the global leader in robotic energy-based therapies, and Avenda Health, a leading AI healthcare company, announced a collaboration agreement to offer personalized prostate cancer care, utilizing Avenda’s Unfold AI technology to launch the world’s first AI-assisted Focal One robotic high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) procedures.
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Forest Devices announced today that it received FDA 510(k) clearance for its SignalNED Model RE system for brain state analysis. This marks the first FDA clearance for the company, which won MedTech Innovator’s 2019 accelerator competition.
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Sparta Biomedical, a private medical device company focused on osteoarthritis repair solutions, today announced that it has successfully implanted its Ormi device in patients with focal knee lesions as part of its first-in-human clinical trial.
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Remedee Labs, a French start-up that specializes in non-pharmacological treatments for chronic pain, is announcing today that it has obtained medical device status in Europe for its millimeter wave endorphin stimulator wristband.
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X-Bolt Orthopedics, an emerging innovator of bone fixation implants in orthopedics, has been awarded the Best Technology In Spine Award for 2024/2025 by Orthopedics This Week.
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Darmiyan, Inc., a pioneer in brain technology, is proud to announce the launch of the BrainSee Platform, integrating the first-of-its-kind FDA-approved BrainSee Test for Alzheimer’s disease.
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DASI Simulations announced today that its second product – DASI Dimensions – has earned FDA clearance. “Our mission – to provide an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered structural heart platform that allows physicians to be more efficient and use their expertise more effectively – is moving forward with great momentum,”
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Bloomlife, a leader in maternal health technology, has successfully raised $12.2 million in a Series A funding round, marking a significant step forward in its mission to advance maternal healthcare.
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Discure Technologies Ltd., developer of the Discure System, a bioelectronic implantable device for the treatment of degenerative disc disease (DDD), announced today that the Company has secured $11 million in an oversubscribed Series A financing round, following a SAFE (Simple Agreement for Future Equity) raise of $5 million, bringing the total equity financing raised to $16 million.
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HEPTA Medical (“HEPTA”), a private medical device company dedicated to providing an efficient, safe, and minimally-invasive thermal ablation therapy for early-stage lung cancer, today announced it has successfully raised €5.7M in the first close of its Series A funding round.
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Lungpacer Medical, a neurostimulation company developing interventional therapies to free patients from mechanical ventilation (MV) and improve diaphragm, lung, heart, and brain health, today announced that the Company’s flagship AeroPace System is under Food and Drug Administration (FDA) review in a premarket approval (PMA) application.
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Renata Medical today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the company’s first-of-its-kind Minima Growth Stent that’s specifically tailored for neonates, infants, and young children, but also designed to be re-expanded over the course of their growth period.
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Vitestro, a pioneer in the field of medical robotics, is proud to announce that its innovative automated blood drawing device has received CE marking. This marks a significant milestone for the company, acknowledging that the device meets the requirements of the European Medical Device Regulation (MDR) and is now approved for commercial use across the European Union.
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Sibel Health announces two additional FDA-clearances enabling its advanced wearable sensors to operate with compatible third party software applications.
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Universal DX (“UDX”), a biotech company dedicated to transforming cancer into a curable disease by detecting it early, today announced closure of the Series B which funds the clinical trial for its colorectal cancer screening blood test, Signal-C®, aimed at achieving FDA premarket approval.
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PanTher Therapeutics (“PanTher” or the “Company”), a clinical-stage oncology company redefining cancer treatment with therapeutics administered continuously and exclusively at the tumor site, today announced the U.S.
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CroíValve, a medtech start-up that spun out of Trinity College Dublin, has closed a $16m Series B funding round led by the MedTech and Irrus Syndicates.
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Wellinks, a digital healthcare company offering comprehensive value-based solutions for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) management, today announced plans to integrate its pulmonary rehabilitation program at UMass Memorial Health (UMMH) to support people living with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) in Central Massachusetts.
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Prana Thoracic, a Houston-based medtech startup, founded with a vision to transform lung cancer intervention, proudly announces the successful final closing of its Series A extension round.
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Centerline Biomedical, Inc. (“Centerline”), an innovation leader in cardiovascular navigation and visualization systems, announced today that the IOPS Viewpoint Catheter has received US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance.
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Mind.Px™ is a proprietary biomarker test that analyzes a patient’s skin sample to determine the optimal treatment path for psoriasis. By identifying the most effective drug class upfront, Mind.Px™ can significantly reduce the time and cost associated with trial-and-error treatment approaches.
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The European Investment Bank (EIB) is providing €20 million in venture-debt financing to German medical-technology company Protembis to develop a next-generation device for protecting the brains of patients who undergo certain heart treatments.
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Avenda Health, an AI healthcare company creating the future of personalized prostate cancer care, today announces the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has assigned a national payment rate for the company’s innovative prostate cancer mapping technology, Unfold AI.
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Edwards Lifesciences is continuing its M&A run with two more major deals. The cardiac device company announced yesterday evening that it will spend $1.2 billion to acquire two companies: JenaValve Technology and Endotronix.
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US-based integrated healthcare system Sutter Health is set to implement Flosonics Medical’s wireless, wearable Doppler ultrasound device, FloPatch, to enhance the safety of intensive care unit (ICU) patients.
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ECential Robotics is proud to announce that it has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for an innovative Spine Navigation and Robotic-Assistance Device.
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Nurami Medical, a pioneering developer of soft tissue repair solutions, announced today that it has been awarded blended financing which includes a €2.5 million grant and additional equity investment from the European Innovation Council (EIC) Horizon Accelerator program.
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A patient in Cincinnati has become the first in the United States to receive an innovative system that enables remote monitoring of his heart and congestion status, as well as self-adjustment of diuretics.
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Innoblative Designs, Inc. (Innoblative), a private medical device company addressing clinical unmet needs for patients with breast cancer, announced today that it has initiated its first-in-human clinical experience, successfully treating a 64-year-old patient with stage II luminal A breast cancer.
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Neuspera Medical, Inc., a neuromodulation company pioneering the Neuspera Implantable Sacral Neuromodulation (SNM) System, announced the closing of its Series D funding round raising $23 million and led by Vertex Ventures HC and Treo Ventures with participation by Action Potential Venture Capital, Windham Venture Partners, Olympus Innovation Ventures and another strategic investor.
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ImmersiveTouch announced today that it received FDA 510(k) clearance for its ImmersiveAR augmented reality technology platform.Chicago-based ImmersiveTouch’s ImmersiveAR extends the company’s AI-powered suite of virtual surgical planning products and services.
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Endoron Medical has announced the successful closing of its US$10 million Series A funding round. The round was led by Sofinnova Partners, with significant matching contributions from the European Innovation Council Fund (EIC Fund).
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Medasense’s CEO & Founder, Galit Zuckerman, expressed enthusiasm about the collaboration: “We are honored to partner with Nihon Kohden, a company with a long history of excellence, that shares our vision of improving patient care through innovative solutions.
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Endotronix, Inc., a privately held company dedicated to advancing the treatment of heart failure (HF) at the intersection of digital health and medtech, today announced Premarket Approval (PMA) from the U.S Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the company’s Cordella™ Pulmonary Artery (PA) Sensor System for the treatment of New York Heart Failure (NYHA) class III heart failure patients.
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Zydus Lifesciences‘ venture capital arm Zynext Ventures has announced a strategic investment in Promaxo, which develops low-field MRI systems. US-based Promaxo is also engaged in the development of minimally invasive robotics.
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Enspectra Health has secured breakthrough device designation (BDD) from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its AI-powered VIO Skin Platform.
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AvaSure, a market leader in acute virtual care, and CLEW Medical, an AI-enabled clinical surveillance and predictive analytics company, announced their partnership to drive early detection of critical care patient deterioration, leading to more timely interventions, reduced complications, fewer readmissions, and decreased mortality.
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US-based medical equipment manufacturer Zeto has received 510(k) clearance from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its electroencephalogram (EEG) system Zeto ONE across hospital, home, ambulance and air transport environments.
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Clinical trial technology provider, Medable, has partnered with wearable device firm Masimo to integrate its pulse oximeter technology into clinical trials.
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StrokeDx, a pioneer in next-generation stroke technology, today announced the successful closing of $5 million in Series Seed Prime funding. The oversubscribed round was led by DigiTx Partners, with participation by Freeflow Ventures and other existing investors with extensive accomplishments across neuroradiology, stroke, and medical devices.
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Cofounders of Genetesis, left to right: Vineet Erasala, Peeyush Shrivastava and Manny Setegn.COURTESY OF GENETESISVineet Erasala, Manny Setegn and Peeyush Shrivastava are childhood best friends from Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Oxford Endovascular today announces the successful completion of an 8 million GBP Series A+ funding round. The MedTech start-up, founded in 2015, is developing a novel approach to preventing brain haemorrhage by treating intracranial aneurysms.
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MEACOR Inc. is pleased to announce the successful closing of its $15 million Series A funding round. This substantial investment supports MEACOR’s mission to offer a novel transcatheter approach for the treatment of mitral and tricuspid valve regurgitation.
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May Health, a clinical-stage medical device company dedicated to helping those living with the endocrine disorder polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), today announced it has closed a $25 million Series B financing round, co-led by Bpifrance and Trill Impact with participation from founding investor Sofinnova Partners, as well as Avestria Ventures and Kidron Capital Assets LP.
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– CLEW Medical, a provider of AI-driven clinical surveillance and predictive analytics, has achieved a breakthrough with FDA 510(k) clearance for its second-generation AI models for predicting patient deterioration.
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A Metairie-based company that makes disposable devices to regulate the flow of medication won the Baton Rouge Entrepreneurship Week business pitch competition Thursday evening.
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Healionics Corporation, a developer of biomaterial-based medical devices, today announced it has been awarded a $1.25 million Small Business Innovation Research grant by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to support the commercialization of its STARgraft vascular graft.
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AI healthcare firm Avenda Health is touting the results of a study showing how the company’s Unfold AI can identify prostate tumor margins and predict the efficacy of focal therapy treatments.
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Little Sparrows Technologies, a neonatal medical device startup and innovator of the award-winning, FDA cleared jaundice treatment, bili-hut™ phototherapy, today announces the addition of three members to its Board of Directors following the successful close of a $3M Series Seed funding round.
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– Xealth, a digital health platform provider, today announced a collaboration with Stel Life, a frontrunner in health monitoring device connectivity.
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Averto Medical Inc (“Averto”, “The Company”), a clinical-stage medical device company pioneering minimally invasive gastrointestinal care, today announced the closing of an oversubscribed $30.5 million Series A financing.
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Company Will Begin Trading on NASDAQ Under Ticker Symbol NUVO as of Thursday May 2, 2024
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Caretaker Medical, a leading innovator in advanced hemodynamic monitoring solutions, today announced the launch of its VitalStream® Cardiogenic Shock Continuous Monitoring Roadmap at the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) 2024 meeting.
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Starlight Cardiovascular, Inc., a company developing pediatric cardiovascular medical devices, announced that it has been awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to advance development of its Pulmonary Flow Restrictor.
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Vitestro Secures Oversubscribed Funding Round to Drive European Expansion and U.S. Market Entry
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NView medical, a leader in surgical imaging technologies, proudly announces the successful first use of its nView s1 imaging and navigation system in adult spine surgery.
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Provisio Medical today announced FDA 510(k) clearance of the Provisio™ SLT IVUS™ System. Sonic Lumen Tomography (SLT) technology addresses a critical unmet need for vascular specialists by providing automatic, real-time, accurate, numeric measurements of the flow lumen of blood vessels without the complexities of image interpretation.
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AtaCor Medical Inc., a privately-held medical device company delivering the next generation of extravascular leads to advance the care of cardiac rhythm management (CRM) patients, announced today that it has completed a $28M Series C financing round.
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Epitel announced today that it received FDA 510(k) clearance for two new patient-focused brain health offerings. The FDA cleared the Remi remote EEG monitoring system for ambulatory use and the Remi Vigilenz AI for event detection.
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Sibel Health, an award-winning health technology company backed by the Steele Foundation for Hope, announced it has received a $17.5 million dollar grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to advance the use of its FDA-cleared wireless monitoring solution, ANNE® One, for labor triage and continuous maternal health monitoring in low-and-middle income countries (LMICs) to reduce obstetrical morbidity and mortality.
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Toronto-based robotics sensing company Forcen has closed an $8.35 million CAD funding round as it looks to scale up its prototype production facilities.
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Hyalex Orthopaedics has announced the successful treatment of the first patients in the first-in-human clinical trials with its HYALEX Knee Cartilage System.
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Genesis Growth Tech Acquisition filed a proxy and prospectus on its $21 million deal with MindMaze, a digital therapeutics firm. The sponsor is obligated to pay MindMaze the $21 million purchase price by May 31.
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Titan Medical today provided a progress update regarding its planned merger with surgical guidance technology company Conavi Medical. The companies entered into a definitive amalgamation agreement to combine in an all-stock transaction last month.
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“Our purpose goes beyond technology. We’re driven by a profound commitment to changing lives.”
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Raydiant Oximetry, Inc., a clinical-stage medical device company that develops medical technologies to improve outcomes for mothers and babies during childbirth, announces that the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) of the Lumerah™ technology for an Early Feasibility Study (EFS) of pregnant women during labor and delivery.
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Liberate Medical is proud to announce the successful commencement of patient enrollment in the PREVENT trial, a pivotal clinical trial examining the VentFree Respiratory Muscle Stimulator.
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A 2019 rule change by the U.S. medical devices regulator aimed at encouraging innovations targeting insomnia and anxiety is bearing fruit: Neurovalens, a Belfast-based startup that for over a decade has been developing technology to deliver noninvasive electrical stimulation of the brain and nervous system, has just had its second head-mounted treatment device cleared by the FDA.
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Onkos Surgical, an orthopaedic company founded to address the complex clinical challenges associated with bone loss due to tumor, trauma, and revision surgery, announced that the U.S.
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Titan Medical Inc. (“Titan”) announced on March 18, 2024, that it is merging with Conavi Medical Inc. (“Conavi”). Titan is a medical technology licensing company based in Toronto with an extensive patent portfolio focusing on robotic assisted surgery.
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Researchers envision using the gel to attach medical devices to organs and eventually engineering it to dissolve after the body heals from an injury. They’ve also formed a startup, Limax Biosciences, to commercialize their technology.
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Biolinq Incorporated, a healthcare technology company pioneering precision multi-analyte biosensors to improve metabolic health, today announced the completion of $58 million in financing led by Alpha Wave Ventures, with participation from Niterra’s corporate venture capital fund jointly operated with Pegasus Tech Ventures and existing investors RiverVest Venture Partners, AXA IM Alts, Global Health Investment Corporation, Aphelion Capital, Senvest Management, Features Capital and Taisho Pharmaceutical.
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Eko Health received FDA clearance this week for a new AI-powered tool that aids in the early detection of low ejection fraction, a key indicator of heart failure.
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The health technology company Prenosis on Wednesday announced its artificial intelligence-powered diagnostic tool for sepsis is the first to receive approval from the U.S.
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Neurava announced that it has completed and oversubscribed its Series Seed round, raising $2.26 million. Neurava is developing novel and innovative wearable devices for the estimated 3.5 million Americans and 65 million people worldwide with epilepsy to mitigate the risk of SUDEP, or Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy.
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Genetesis, Inc., a leader in the field of magnetocardiography (MCG), today announced that official results from its MAGNETO trial were published in a special issue of the American Heart Journal Plus: Cardiology Research and Practice.
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US-based equipment manufacturer Photopharmics has announced the initiation of its ‘Celeste light for PD’ clinical trial investigating the Celeste phototherapy device.
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A disinfecting connection device that reduces infection risk associated with dialysis.
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In conjunction with a poster presentation at the United States and Canada Association of Pathologists Annual (USCAP) meeting titled “Current State of Intra-/Interobserver Accuracy and Reproducibility in Tissue Biopsy Grossing and Comparison to an Automated Vision System”
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Cardiovascular medical device maker Protembis announced today that it completed a $32.6 million (€30 million) Series B financing round. The Aachen, Germany-based company plans to use the funds to support enrollment for its PROTEMBO FDA investigational device exemption (IDE) trial.
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, CoapTech, Inc., a medical device company delivering transformative solutions for minimally-invasive surgery, announced today the market launch and historic first bedside use case of its second generation magnetic balloon catheter.
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Flosonics Medical, a leader in wearable medical ultrasound, today announced its Series C financing, raising $20 million USD. The round was led by New Leaf Venture Partners, with participation from previous investors Arboretum Ventures, Genesys Capital, and iGan Partners.
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Titan Medical announced today that it entered into a definitive amalgamation agreement to combine with Conavi Medical.
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ConKay Medical Systems, a medtech start-up company developing a unique device for treating patients suffering from valvular regurgitation, has closed an oversubscribed $1.8M seed round.
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SafeGuard Surgical, a leading medical technology company focused on life-saving biodegradable solutions, announced today a major milestone in its mission to improve global healthcare.
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Gradient Denervation Technologies, a Paris-based medical device company developing a minimally-invasive, ultrasound-based device designed to treat pulmonary hypertension patients with associated heart failure, announced today that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the initiation of the PreVail-PH2 Early Feasibility Study in the United States.
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Bloomlife, an award winning women’s health company, and Valley Perinatal Services (VPS), Arizona’s leading high-risk maternal fetal medicine group, today announced a commercial partnership along with results from the initial deployment of Bloomlife’s remote maternal care platform Bloomlife Connects.
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Bone Health Technologies (BHT) has recently closed a $5 million funding round to enhance care for individuals with low bone density. This round saw contributions from Esplanade Ventures, Berkeley Catalyst Fund, and Terumo Medical, a global leader in medical technology.
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K medtech startup Phagenesis has raised a $42m Series D to roll out its medical device for swallowing disorders in the US and expand its footprint in Europe.
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Augment Health, Inc., a medical technology company developing next generation urologic monitoring tools for patients with chronic conditions, recently announced an investment from Vanderbilt University’s Innovation Investment Committee (“IIC”).
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Healionics Corporation, a developer of biomaterial-based medical devices, today announced the close of a $5.5 million equity financing round led by Keiretsu Capital with participation by several prominent angel groups.
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Last week we accomplished a huge milestone and shipped our one millionth device. This was an incredible moment for our company as a whole and something that was hard to imagine when we first started out nearly 12 years ago.
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InkSpace Imaging announced a strategic distribution partnership with American Medical Imaging (AMI), a leading US distributor of medical imaging equipment.
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Pumpinheart, a medtech start-up based between Dublin and Galway, expects to raise a €5 million seed funding round later this year. The investment will fine tune its technology designed to help people with heart failure.
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IntuiTap Medical proudly announces FDA clearance of their cutting-edge medical device, VerTouch. VerTouch eliminates the guesswork from spinal punctures making them more accurate and consistent.
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Sibel Health, a leading digital health company, announced today that its continuous wearable monitoring solution, ANNE® One, has received another 510(k) clearance from the U.S.
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Harlee Sorkin is a co-founder of Common Place Holdings, a venture studio that has given birth to eight different medtech startups, including InterShunt, which Harlee is leading as its CEO today. Prior to that, Harlee proved his business acumen by leading Traco Labs to a successful exit.
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DASI Simulations, a medical technology start-up offering a novel AI-powered medical platforms to advance toward lifetime management and improved outcomes for structural heart interventions, has closed it $5 million convertible note round. The company has now surpassed $7 million in funds raised.
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Copenhagen-based Neurescue, a medical device startup that claims to pioneer an improved treatment of cardiac arrest, has secured DKK 50M (approximately €6.7M) in a Series A round of funding.
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Mirai Medical, a medtech company pioneering an energy technology for use in the treatment of cancer, has secured €4 million in funding.
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Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Simon Coveney TD, Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Simon Harris TD and the Minister of State for Trade Promotion, Digital and Company Regulation, Dara Calleary TD, today announced funding of a further €6.8 million for a twelfth project under Call 6 of the Disruptive Technologies Innovation Fund (DTIF).
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Caira Surgical is innovating radar technology to make it precise enough for use in navigating surgeons through knee replacement procedures, where every millimeter matters for an accurate outcome, co-founders Jon Greenwald and Mort Meftah explain to Bloomberg Intelligence.
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When surgeons remove a diseased part of the intestine during gastric surgery, the reconnection of the two healthy ends, usually with suturing or stapling, is called an anastomosis.
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NetScientific, a deep tech and life sciences venture capital investment group, announced that its portfolio company Glycotest has secured a US$1m follow-on investment from Fosun Industrial.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted clearance for Bone Health Technologies’ Osteoboost, a non-pharmacological device-based prescription treatment for postmenopausal women diagnosed with osteopenia (low bone density).
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Immersive surgical training program company Osso VR has added five new orthopedic training modules to its Osso Academy, a virtual reality medical training library.
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DermaSensor Inc. announces FDA clearance for its real-time, non-invasive skin cancer evaluation system. For the first time, the 300,000 primary care physicians in the U.S.
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Bloomlife, the award winning maternal health company, has received clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for Bloomlife MFM-Pro, their first maternal and fetal monitoring device.
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InkSpace Imaging, a leader in innovative diagnostic medical device technology, is proud to announce it received FDA clearance for its next-generation Small Body Array for the Siemens Healthineers Magnetom Skyra and Vida series 3T MRI scanners.
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The artificial intelligence developer Imvaria has claimed a de novo clearance from the FDA for a digital diagnostic that analyzes chest CT scans for the signs of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
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FDA IDE approval of Sonavex’s randomized trial comes months after meeting the endpoint of its first clinical study
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Today marks a turning point in the battle against Alzheimer’s disease as Darmiyan, Inc., a leading company in brain health innovation announces the FDA’s approval of its first-in-class (De Novo) clinical test, BrainSee.
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istalmotion has announced a partnership with Proximie, a health technology platform, to globally extend the capabilities of its Dexter robotic surgery system.
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Neocis, maker of surgical technology for robot-assisted dental implants, announced today that it raised $20 million in additional funding. Maimi-based Neocis received investments from Mirae Asset Capital/Mirae Asset Venture Investment.
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Linear Health Sciences has been awarded a national group purchasing agreement for the IV Therapy – Needleless Connectors category with Premier, Inc. Effective Jan.
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Medable Inc., the leading technology provider for modern clinical trials, announces new intelligent automation technology applied across its clinical trials platform to cut standard trial build timelines by at least half.
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Knowtex and 4D EMR, two innovative leaders in medical technology, are thrilled to announce a pioneering partnership that will introduce the first specialty-specific voice and generative AI electronic medical records (EMR) workflow.
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UK-based Renovos Biologics has been granted breakthrough device designation from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for Renovite BMP-2 (bone morphogenic protein 2), a synthetic nanoclay bone fusion gel.
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Nanowear, a leader in healthcare-at-home remote diagnostics, announced that its nanotechnology-enabled wearable and software platform, SimpleSenseTM, has received FDA 510(k) clearance for a novel AI-enabled Software-as-a-Medical Device (SaMD).
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Bloomlife, an award-winning maternal health company, and PeriGen, the market leader in applying artificial intelligence to improve safety in childbirth, today announced a partnership to improve access to essential monitoring of high-risk pregnancies.
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Enspectra Health, a health tech company, announces US FDA 510(k) clearance of the VIO System, launching a new era in noninvasive imaging. VIO, the first of its kind technology, combines reflectance confocal and multiphoton microscopy to enable cellular resolution, cross-sectional imaging of skin in seconds.
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Medicare will now reimburse nearly $1,000 per procedure for heart surgery planning software from an Ohio State University spinoff – clearing a hurdle for increasing sales to hospitals.
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Garwood Medical Devices, a breakthrough New York medtech company, and Teijin Limited, a leading Japanese conglomerate with pharmaceutical and implantable medical device businesses, have announced a joint research and development agreement designed to enable Garwood and Teijin to bring Garwood’s novel infection control technology to Japan.
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SymPhysis Medical has received €1.5m in funding and is seeking an additional €4.5m-plus early next year to support the continued development of its breakthrough medical device, FDA approval and the creation of new jobs.
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Sentante, a pioneering medical device company headquartered in Lithuania, announces the closing of a €6 Million seed funding round led by Practica Capital with participation of EIC fund.
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USA —GT Medical Technologies, a US-based medical equipment manufacturer, has agreed to acquire the radioactive Cesium-131 seed business and its infrastructure from Isoray Medical, a subsidiary of Perspective Therapeutics.
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Encellin, a biotechnology company developing a cell encapsulation platform with an initial focus on Type 1 Diabetes (T1D), announced the closing of a $9.9M financing round led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from Y Combinator.
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Gravitas Medical Inc. is pleased to announce that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted a second Breakthrough Device Designation to Entarik, the innovative Enteral Feeding System.
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Xpan Inc., a medical device company focused on minimally invasive surgical innovation, is proud to announce 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration for the XpanTM Universal Trocar System, and successful completion of initial clinical procedures in the United States.
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Digital digestive health solution provider Vivante Health today announced the addition of its GIThrive solution to the Evernorth Digital Health Formulary, which connects employers, insurers, and customers with innovative, affordable, and evidence-based care that meets their broader health care needs.
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Point32Health, the parent company of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Tufts Health Plan, has announced Movn Health as the winner of its second annual Innovation Challenge.
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OtoNexus Medical Technologies, the developer of the Novoscope ultrasound otoscope for immediate and automatic differentiation of bacterial middle ear infections, is excited to announce its recent selection into U. S. Food and Drug Administration Safter Technologies Program (STeP).
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Bone Health Technologies (BHT), an innovator in health technologies to improve bone health, has been granted its fourth patent to further its commercialization of the Osteoboost device, which has been shown in clinical trials to reduce the loss of bone mass in post-menopausal women.
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Nitinotes, developers of EndoZip™, a revolutionary, fully automated suturing device, announced the appointment of Mr. John Barr as the new Chairman of the Board of Directors.
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The human knee is a marvel. It’s the hinge at the center of our gait, the evolutionary adaptation that makes humans the only fully bipedal mammals on the planet.
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Bright Uro, a medical device company with a mission to transform care for lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) through innovations in urodynamics, today announced the initial closing of its $23M Series A financing round led by Laborie Medical Technologies, a leading global provider of urology diagnostic and therapeutic solutions.
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Inflammatix, Inc., a pioneering molecular diagnostics company, announced today that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Breakthrough Device Designation to the company’s lead product, the TriVerity™ Acute Infection and Sepsis Test System.
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Today, FormaPath announced the commercial launch of AdiPress, the first and only automated tool to standardize lymph node dissection. With this innovation, cancer-focused pathology practices can now automate the recovery of lymph nodes within fatty cancer tissue, to ensure more precise staging of cancer patients to guide their follow up therapy intended to prevent cancer recurrence.
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Savage Medical, Inc. (“SavageMed”, “Company”, “We”, or “Us”), a San Francisco Bay Area-based, clinical-stage medical technology company enabling minimally invasive colorectal tumor removal, today announced a launch out of stealth with over $3 million in total funding, including oversubscribed financing from leading early-stage medical technology investors including Synergy Ventures, Life Science Angels and AlwaysraiseVC.
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Pristine Surgical announced today that it accelerated the launch of its first-of-its-kind Summit 4K single-use surgical arthroscope.Summit combines a 4K single-use surgical arthroscope with the company’s cloud-based software Pristine Connect. The device provides a high-definition image every time.
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UK-based cancertech company Kheiron has made a significant leap in the fight against breast cancer with their AI tool, Mia, as evidenced by a recent study published in Nature Medicine.
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Genesis Growth Tech Acquisition in an 8-K said it entered into a business combination agreement with digital therapeutics firm Mind Maze for $21 million.
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Universal DX (“UDX”), a biotech company on a mission to transform cancer into a curable disease, today announced a strategic collaboration with Quest Diagnostics (“Quest”) (NYSE: DGX), the nation’s leading provider of diagnostic information services, designed to improve colorectal cancer screening in the United States – for which more than 110 million people may be eligible.
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This investment is a pivotal moment in our journey to transform the treatment landscape for Parkinson’s disease.”— Kent Savage, CEOAMERICAN FORK, UT, UNITED STATES, November 15, 2023 /EINPresswire.com/ — PhotoPharmics, an innovator in Parkinson’s disease research and treatment, today announced the successful first close of an $16 million investment round.
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Sonic Healthcare acquired Utah-based medical-tech provider Pathology Watch for US$150 million in what the Australian company called a strategic move that would accelerate its transition to digital pathology services.
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OrbiMed, a leading healthcare investment firm and Koya Medical, a healthcare company with a mission to transform venous and lymphatic treatments through novel, people-centric solutions, today announced the closing of a financing for up to $30 million.
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Oxford Nanopore, the company delivering a new generation of nanopore-based molecular sensing technology, and Day Zero Diagnostics (DZD), an infectious disease diagnostics company harnessing the power of whole-genome sequencing and AI to combat the rise of antibiotic-resistant infections, today announced a collaboration to develop an end-to-end solution for the diagnosis of bloodstream infections, a leading cause of sepsis.
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Neurent Medical, a company pioneering innovative non-surgical interventions to treat chronic inflammatory sinonasal diseases, today announced a significant milestone for the chronic rhinitis market.
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he Rady Venture Fund, a student-assisted venture capital investment fund, established at the Rady School of Management in 2009 to support the school’s educational and entrepreneurial objectives, is proud to announce its newest investment: CARI Health.
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The American Medical Association (AMA) has announced its 2024 Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code set will include a new Category III code for Avenda Health‘s innovative Unfold AI™, a cancer AI platform that creates new clinically meaningful insights to aid physicians and patients in making informed treatment decisions.
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Inari Medical (NASDAQ: NARI)+ today announced a definitive agreement to purchase LimFlow Medical for up to $415 million. The deal comes just weeks after Paris-based LimFlow won FDA premarket approval (PMA) for its breakthrough system to treat chronic limb-threatening ischemia (CLTI).
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Access Vascular, Inc. (AVI), a company addressing the most common and costly vascular access complications with its advanced biomaterial platform, today announced that it raised a Series C round worth $22 million from a consortium of new and existing investors.
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Neurovalens announced today that the FDA granted clearance to its Modius Sleep device for treating chronic insomnia.Belfast, Northern Ireland-based Neurovalens develops non-invasive neurotechnology. The company took part in the MedTech Innovator Accelerator program last year.
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CPT Code establishes a standard reimbursement pathway for the EchoSure System effective July 1, 2024
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Alyve Medical Inc., a global medical technology company and leader in data-driven joint kinematics tools and personalized neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) technologies, announced today the publication of results from an independent multi-center randomized controlled trial evaluating the safety and efficacy of Neuralign S™ (formerly known as Shoulder Pacemaker) in the treatment of functional posterior shoulder instability.
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MicroTransponder’s Vivistim Paired VNS system is a chest implant that helps chronic ischemic stroke survivors regain impaired motor function in their arms and hands by stimulating the nearby vagus nerve, the body’s “superhighway”
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Day Zero Diagnostics Inc. (DZD), an infectious disease diagnostics company harnessing the power of whole-genome sequencing and AI to combat the rise of antibiotic-resistant infections, announced today that independent board member, Jeff Mirviss, has been appointed board chair.
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Moon Surgical today announced the successful completion of the first 10 laparoscopic surgeries with its Maestro system in France.The procedures — bariatric and abdominal surgery procedures — took place at the Arnault Tzanck Institute in Nice, France.
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Conavi Medical Inc., (“Conavi” or the “Company”) developer of the Novasight Hybrid System and a leader of hybrid imaging guidance for minimally invasive cardiovascular interventions, today announced the limited market release for their new Novasight Vantage hybrid imaging system in the U.S.
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Protembis GmbH (Protembis) a privately-held emerging cardiovascular medical device company, announced today the FDA has approved the PROTEMBO Pivotal IDE Trial (NCT05873816).
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Digital care management platform Sidekick Health announced it acquired Hamburg-based aidhere, a prescription digital therapeutic for people with obesity.
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Senzo Health, a London, UK-based life sciences company developing diagnostic technologies, raised additional $1.8M in funding.
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ZKR Orthopedics, Inc., a clinical stage medical device company, today announced that its LIFT implant technology has been granted Breakthrough Device Designation by the U.S.
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Endotronix, Inc., a digital health and medical technology company dedicated to advancing the treatment of heart failure (HF), announced it has received Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) approval from the FDA for a subsequent multicenter study, PROACTIVE-HF 2, which will evaluate the company’s Cordella Sensor for pulmonary artery (PA) pressure-guided therapy.
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Rhaeos, Inc, a clinical stage medical device technology company, is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a $1.5 million grant (Federal Award # 1UG3NS130338) from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) through its Blueprint MedTech program.
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RevBio, Inc., announced that it has been awarded a grant from the National Institute on Aging (NIA), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), through its Commercialization Readiness Program of up to $3.4 million over the next three years (1SB1AG085803-01).
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Promaxo, Inc. (“Promaxo” or the “Company”), a medical imaging, robotics, and AI technology company, announced today that it has received a direct investment from Fred Moll, M.D., industry pioneer and leader in surgical robotics and minimally invasive surgery, with more than 40 years of experience of building and leading innovative medical device companies.
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French VR-based digital therapy provider HypnoVR has acquired Belgian digital sedation company Oncomfort. The financials of the deal have not been disclosed.
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Anumana announced that it received FDA 510(k) clearance for its AI-powered ECG-AI LEF medical device.
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3EO Health, a “Point of Life” diagnostics company focused on the development of high-performing low-cost molecular diagnostics for both point of care and at-home testing announced today the receipt of an emergency use authorization (EUA) for its SARS-CoV-2 molecular test.
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Alyve Medical, a global medical technology company and leader in data-driven joint kinematics tools and personalized neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) technologies, is delighted to announce that it has achieved Silver recognition on the Pepperdine Graziadio Business School’s sixth annual Most Fundable Companies® List.
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Strados Labs has partnered with Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago for a clinical trial to evaluate the effectiveness of its RESP™ Biosensor in children presenting with wheeze.
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De La Vina Surgicenter in Santa Barbara, CA, and medical device and technology company Lazurite® announced that De La Vina is the first healthcare center in Southern California to adopt Lazurite’s new ArthroFree® Wireless Surgical Camera System.
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Digital gastrointestinal health company Vivante Health announced it closed a $31 million Series B funding round led by new investor Mercato Partners, bringing its total raise to $47 million.
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Day Zero Diagnostics Inc. (DZD), an infectious disease diagnostics company harnessing the power of whole-genome sequencing and AI to combat the rise of antibiotic-resistant infections, announced today the recent completion of a $16M round of financing.
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Tasso, Inc., the leading provider of patient-centric clinical-grade blood collection solutions, today announced it received CE Mark certification for its Tasso+™ device, a convenient, virtually pain-free blood lancet that collects whole liquid blood samples.
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InBrain Neuroelectronics announced today that it received FDA breakthrough device designation for its intelligent network modulation system.
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CardiaCare, a medical device company developing a breakthrough wearable technology for detecting, monitoring, and non-invasively treating cardiac arrhythmias using drug-free neuromodulation, recently closed an over-subscribed Seed Extension round.
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Conavi Medical, Inc. (www.conavi.com), a leader in hybrid intravascular imaging, is pleased to announce the close of $12.5 mil USD of funding, including participation from existing investors.
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The US Food and Drug Administration has approved the LimFlow self-expanding covered stent system for arterialization of deep veins in the foot in no-option patients with chronic limb-threatening ischemia (CLTI) who are facing major amputation, its manufacturer announced today.
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Sparta Biomedical Inc., a privately held medical technology company, revolutionizing osteoarthritis treatment, is pleased to announce the close of a heavily oversubscribed convertible funding round.
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Retired coal miner Mark Lance was working with his son at his farm, cutting branches that were overhanging the house. Lance was the ground man holding the rope while his son cut the branches.
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Sparta Biomedical, a privately held medical device company specializing in partial knee resurfacing, is excited to announce Dr. Adam Yanke’s presentation at the 2023 ICRS World Congress in Barcelona, Spain.
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Gradient Denervation Technologies (“Gradient”), a medical device company developing an innovative catheter-based solution for the treatment of pulmonary hypertension, announces today the successful closing of a €14m Series A financing that will support ongoing clinical development and evaluation of the ultrasound-based catheter device.
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Vascular Surgeons Stephen Black, MD, and Houman Jalaie, MD, PhD join VeinWay’s Scientific Advisory Board.
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Admetsys Corporation, a biomedical technology company specializing in critical care automation, announced today that the FDA has designated its automated glucose control and continuous blood diagnostics system a Breakthrough Device.
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Vitestro, expert in medical robotics, has launched the A.D.O.P.T. Trial for its autonomous blood drawing device (image). With an anticipated sample size of over 10,000 patients, this is the most significant study globally to date of autonomous blood collection. Vitestro expects to obtain CE marking by the end of 2024.
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Abbott (NYSE: ABT) and Bigfoot Biomedical today announced a definitive agreement for Abbott to acquire Bigfoot, a leader in developing smart insulin management systems for people with diabetes.
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Australian medical-device maker CardieX on Wednesday said it plans to sell more than 1.33 million American depositary shares at between $7.50 and $8 apiece in its U.S. initial public offering.
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CobiCure Medical Technologies announced that it provided $2 million in funding to PolyVascular to advance a pediatric heart valve.
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Sparta Biomedical Inc, a pioneering medical technology company specializing in redefining osteoarthritis treatment, proudly reflects on a momentous period marked by significant recognition and notable achievements.
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Zetagen Therapeutics, a private, clinical-stage, biopharmaceutical company focused on driving breakthrough innovation in the treatment of metastatic cancers to bone and soft tissue organs as well as osteologic interventions, today announced the close of $9.79 million USD Series B funding round.
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RevBio, Inc., announced that it has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to start a 20-patient clinical trial to examine the safety and efficacy of a more rapidly replaced, pH modified porous formulation of the company’s bone adhesive biomaterial called Tetranite® to immediately stabilize dental implants following tooth extractions.
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Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) and Eko Health Inc. (Co-Founder and CEO: Connor Landgraf, “Eko”) announced today that they have entered into a License & Supply Agreement for the global supply and license of Eko’s latest digital stethoscope, the CORE 500™, and a custom suite of Eko’s AI-powered cardiovascular disease detection software.
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The Cook Government is charging ahead with its plan to diversify Western Australia’s economy, with a massive $148 million funding injection to 40 innovative, job-creating projects across the State through its signature Investment Attraction Fund.
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Prenosis, Inc., an artificial intelligence company enabling precision medicine in acute care, announced today that it has been awarded two Phase 2 SBIR grants totaling $4.8M in funding by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), a division of the National Institute of Health (NIH).
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Current Surgical Inc., a medical technology company developing a new surgical platform to improve the safety and efficacy of cancer surgery, today announced that it has received a $400,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support the development of its technology.
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Twenty-four years ago, then pediatric surgery fellow James Dunn, MD, PhD had an idea for a way to help children with short bowel syndrome (SBS), a devastating condition that makes normal eating impossible because there isn’t enough functional small intestine to absorb adequate nutrition.
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Investment will help fund pre-market approval for use in spine, trauma and orthopaedics
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Liberate Medical, a Crestwood, KY-based company which specializes in in the development of novel non-invasive neurostimulation devices, raised $6.2M in Series B funding.
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Spinal is one of the fastest-growing categories of surgery, with the number of operations taking place annually now approaching 8 million. But their frequency belies the complexity and sometimes less-than-perfect outcomes of these procedures.
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Neuroimaging stroke diagnostic startup takes top award from among five finalists
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Australia-based Telix Pharmaceuticals has signed an agreement to acquire UK-based Lightpoint Medical along with its SENSEI radio-guided surgery business.
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Northwell Lenox Hill Hospital is the first hospital in New York State to use ImmersiveTouch’s state-of-the-art surgical planning technology, which creates virtual and augmented reality 3D models of patients’ anatomy for enhanced visualization, custom surgical solutions, and improved patient communication.
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Anumana, Inc., a leading AI-driven health technology company, has received Breakthrough Device Designation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its ECG-AI algorithm designed to aid the early identification of cardiac amyloidosis, a life-threatening, rare, underdiagnosed cause of heart failure.
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New investment adds to recent $5 million venture funding to speed development of lung cancer detection product using advanced metasurface technology
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CorWave, a Clichy, France-based company developing cardiac assist devices, raised €26M in second closing of Series C funding.
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Merit Medical Systems, Inc. recently announced the acquisition of the Surfacer Inside-Out access catheter system from Bluegrass Vascular Technologies, Inc.
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our Houston startups have been selected for the 2023 cohort of the MedTech Innovator’s four-month accelerator program.
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Three Minnesota-based medical startups were chosen among the 61 global companies selected for MedTech Innovator’s four-month accelerator program, which will get started at a summit in Mountain View, California Wednesday.
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Galway-based Mirai and Plio as well as Dublin’s Pumpinheart and Xtremedy will accelerate with the MedTech Innovator starting next week.
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Diagnostics company Nutromics has raised A$11 million ($7 million) ahead of its Series A funding round later this year.
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Prenosis Inc., an artificial intelligence company enabling precision medicine in acute care, announced today it has been awarded a contract from the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), a component of the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR), within the U.S.
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RevBio, Inc., announced that it has been awarded a $2 million Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
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Candesant Biomedical, Inc. (“Candesant”), a private medical device company focused on the development and commercialization of non-invasive treatments for hyperhidrosis or excessive sweating, today announced the closing of a Series B financing, raising a total of $35 million to advance the commercialization of Brella, the first-and-only FDA-cleared 3-Minute SweatControl Patch.
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Founded in 2020, Galway-based Xtremedy is raising seed funding to start clinical trials for its novel medical device to treat diabetic foot infections.
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Pennsylvania-based NeuroFlow, a behavioral health company, has partnered with New Jersey-based Atlantic Health System to advance a collaborative care model for adult behavioral health patients at 16 accountable care organization (ACO) sites.
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LEADOPTIK Inc., a Silicon Valley-based medical imaging company today announced that it has raised $5 million in an oversubscribed series seed funding, led by MetaVC Partners with participation from SOSV, Sony Innovation Fund, TSVC, ENEA, Arash Ferdowsi (co-founder of Dropbox), Ray Muzyka (co-founder of BioWare), and others.
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Moon Surgical, a French-American pioneer in collaborative robotics, announced today that it has secured $55.4 million in additional funding to support the continued development and planned commercialization of its Maestro System.
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Universal Diagnostics (Universal DX), a bioinformatics and multi-omics company on a mission to transform cancer into a curable disease, today announced the results of a large international multi-cohort case-control study, which demonstrate that cell-free DNA methylation and fragmentation signals combined with machine-learning can be used to detect early-stage colorectal cancer (CRC) with 93% and pre-cancerous advanced adenomas (AA) with 54% sensitivity at 92% specificity.
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Gaylord Specialty Healthcare, a nonprofit rehabilitation-focused healthcare system, is proud to announce that it is the first healthcare organization in the nation to use the Phagenyx® Neurostimulation System from Phagenesis, Ltd. to treat dysphagia among stroke patients.
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CardiaCare, a clinical stage digital therapeutic company developing the world’s first non-invasive, neuromodulation wearable for atrial fibrillation treatment, announced today that Ken Nelson has been appointed Chairman of the Board.
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Heart health AI firm Tricog has raised $8.5 million in a Series B2 funding round from OMRON HEALTHCARE, Japan and Sony Innovation Fund, Japan. Existing investors UTEC – The University of Tokyo Edge Capital, Japan, Inventus Partners LLP and SG Innovate, Singapore, participated in this round.
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Distalmotion announced today the first closing of its USD 150 million financing. This significant fundraise reinforces the confidence of its existing investors led by Revival Healthcare Capital.
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Led by GenHenn Venture Fund I, Xenocor will leverage the capital to facilitate launch and rapid adoption of the 5mm articulating Saberscope
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New Non-Invasive Treatment Significantly Reduces Excessive Underarm Sweating and Significantly Improves Quality of Life – Including Reducing the Negative Impact of Excessive Sweating on Daily Activities – After a Single In-Office TreatmentFDA Clearance Based on Data from Randomized, Double-Blind, Multicenter Pivotal SAHARA Study Demonstrating Brella is Effective and Well ToleratedBrella-Treated Participants Maintained Sweat Reduction for Three Months and Longer in Some
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Designation represents progress for patients with suspected Coronary Microvascular Dysfunction as the FDA recognizes disease’s debilitating impacts and the lack of effective non-invasive options for efficient diagnosis
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MY01, Inc., a medical technology company that uses microsensors to aid physicians in diagnosing compartment syndrome, today announced it has raised a $12.5 million USD Series A funding round.
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EvoEndo announced today announced a new CEO and COO along with the departure of previous CEO Heather Underwood.
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Prapela, Inc., an infant health company in Biddeford, ME, was awarded a grant through the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Blueprint MedTech program and National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), to support the development and evaluation of Prapela’s pad to treat apnea in preterm newborns in collaboration with neonatologists at Tufts Medical Center and the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
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The global medical imaging market was valued at a touch over $28 billion in 2021, and is only expected to rise with an increase in demand for early-detection services as well as lifestyle and age-related conditions.
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Northgate Technologies, Inc. (NTI) announced today that it has successfully completed the acquisition of Allotrope Medical™ Inc, a US-based medical device manufacturer that develops an electrosurgical ureter identification system.
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Gravitas Medical today announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance of its innovative Entarik Feeding Tube System and Feeding Tube.
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GT Medical Technologies, Inc., a medical device company dedicated to improving the lives of patients with brain tumors, announced that it has raised $45 million in a Series C financing led by Gilde Healthcare Partners with participation from existing institutional investors MVM Partners, MedTech Venture Partners, and BlueStone Venture Partners.
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Woven Orthopedic Technologies, developer of an implantable sleeve to aid screw fixation in challenging scenarios, announced today that its Ogmend® Implant Enhancement System has received 510(k) clearance from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use in spine surgery.
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MindMics, the inventor of sound-based technology™ for in-ear earphones and hearables, today announced that it has joined the Qualcomm® Voice and Music Extension Program.
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Caira Surgical, the pioneer in radar surgical tracking for navigated and robotic joint replacement surgery, unveiled today its revolutionary new technology for advanced joint replacement, the Caira TKA Radar Navigation System, during the CG 2023 Musculoskeletal Conference presentation by Caira’s Chief Executive Officer Jon Greenwald.
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There are many ways to wage wholesale death and destruction upon the microscopic world. Chemical, thermal, radiation, and other energy-based means abound.
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Puzzle Medical, a Montreal-based startup developing a percutaneous heart pump designed to support cardiac and renal function in patients with advanced heart failure, announced today the successful closing of its CAN$ 34 million Series A funding round led by Cordis-X, a Cardiovascular-Focused Investment Vehicle Backed by Ajax Health, Hellman &Friedman, and KKR.
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Medasense Biometrics Ltd. announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted marketing authorization to the PMD-200 patient monitor with NOL® technology developed for monitoring nociception (the physiological response to pain) through the De Novo premarket review pathway.
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D.C.-based Current Surgical this week announced a $3.2 million seed. The round, which brings the firm’s total raise up to $4 million, was led by True Ventures and features 1517 Fund and SciFounders.
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FlowSense shunt monitor quickly and non-invasively detects the flow of cerebrospinal fluid in implanted shunts, addressing a significant unmet need in hydrocephalus patient management
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The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has named NeuroFlow as a winner in Mission Daybreak — a $20 million challenge designed to help the VA develop new suicide prevention strategies for Veterans. As a winner, NeuroFlow will receive $500,000.
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This could save time and reduce stress for cancer patients as well as reduce pressure on the NHS.
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The National Kidney Foundation (NKF) today announced the latest investment from its Innovation Fund, the philanthropic impact investment program of NKF.
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RevBio, Inc. announced that it has received a strategic investment from Pacific Dental Services® (PDS) to support the clinical development of its bone adhesive biomaterial for implant dentistry.
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Cork-based medical technologies company, AventaMed has been acquired by German firm, Karl Storz for an undisclosed amount.
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Leading diagnostic and therapeutic medical technology company, Laborie Medical Technologies Corp. (Laborie), announced that it has acquired Novonate, Inc.
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Bigfoot acquired the pump technology through its 2015 takeover of Asante Solutions, the manufacturer of the 510(k)-cleared Snap insulin pump. At the time, Bigfoot predicted the acquisition would accelerate the development of its system for managing Type 1 diabetes.
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More than two dozen medical technology developers are winners of the 2023 Edison Awards.
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Cellvie Inc., a leader in Therapeutic Mitochondria Transplantation (TMT), an approach developed at Harvard, closes a $5.5 Million financing to get Series A-ready by the end of 2023.
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Aluna, the award-winning lung health management platform, today announced it has completed a $15.3 million Series B round of financing to continue growing its solution among doctors and patients managing asthma, cystic fibrosis and COPD.
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Alleviant Medical, Inc., a privately-held medical device company developing a no-implant interatrial shunt for heart failure, today announced the closing of a $75 million equity financing co-led by S3 Ventures and RiverVest Venture Partners.
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The medtech industry is a cause close to Marc Zemel’s heart. After getting a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from MIT and an MBA from Yale, Marc decided that he wanted to use his education to make a real difference in the world.
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Starting in early 2023 the biopharmaceutical company will use the Strados RESP™ Biosensor to remotely monitor cough and crackles in patients at home
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We’re living in a wireless world. So why, Eugene Malinskiy wondered, were surgeons still dealing with bulky, heavy wires in the operating room?
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Universal Diagnostics (Universal DX), a bioinformatics and multi-omics company on a mission to transform cancer into a curable disease, today announced the results of an international, observational cohort study which evaluated the effectiveness of utilizing a combination of cell-free DNA (cfDNA) methylation, fragmentation and machine learning to detect early-stage colorectal cancer (CRC).
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Synergia Medical, a preclinical medical device company that has developed NAO.VNS (Vagus Nerve Stimulation), the first non-metal optoelectronic neurostimulator for the treatment of drug-resistant epilepsy, today announced the successful completion of an additional €3.8 million of Series B funding bringing the total to €12.8 million.
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Digital health startup CARI Health has closed an oversubscribed $2.3 million seed round that will help it bring the world’s first wearable real-time medication monitor to market.
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edical technology manufacturer Pristine Surgical has secured 510(k) clearance for its Summit 4K single-use surgical arthroscope from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
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AVS, an early-stage medical device company focused on safely and effectively treating severely calcified arterial disease with its PIVL™ therapy, announced today that it raised $20 million in Series B financing.
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Prapela, Inc., announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Breakthrough Device Designation to explore the use of its proprietary stimulation to treat apnea of prematurity (AOP), a cessation of breathing for 20 seconds or longer and a major morbidity of preterm infants.
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Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. (NYSE and SIX: ZBH), a global medical technology leader, today announced that it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Embody, Inc., a privately-held medical device company focused on soft tissue healing, for $155 million at closing and up to an additional $120 million subject to achieving future regulatory and commercial milestones over a three year period.
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Mayo Clinic and Endiatx have signed a know-how license agreement covering the ongoing development of Endiatx’s PillBot.The deal gives Mayo Clinic an equity stake in the robotic stomach camera startup, Endiatx co-founder and CEO Torrey Smith told MassDevice.
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December 16, 2022, Garwood Medical Devices, LLC has been selected as an awardee of the Innovations for Vets Quickfire Challenge launched by Johnson & Johnson Innovation – JLABS with the Johnson & Johnson Office of Military and Veterans Affairs.
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Anumana, Inc., an AI-driven health technology company and portfolio company of nference, has entered into a multi-year agreement with Pfizer, Inc. for Anumana to develop an artificial intelligence electrocardiogram algorithm (AI-ECG) designed to enable the early suspicion of cardiac amyloidosis.
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CardiaCare, a clinical stage digital therapeutic company developing the world’s first non-invasive, personalized neuromodulation wearable for atrial fibrillation treatment, announced today the execution of a strategic licensing agreement with Dr.
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EPA shutdowns and a mammoth plaintiff settlement against Ethylene Oxide (EtO) created a logistical nightmare for the medical device industry. Phiex Technologies co-founder & CEO CL Tian and her team are on a mission to change all that.
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AuriGen Medical, an Irish medical devices start-up has raised almost €3 million through crowdfunding in just three weeks.
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Cardiosense, Inc., a Chicago-based digital health company leveraging artificial intelligence and multi-sensor devices to enable early detection of cardiovascular disease, announced today that it has raised $15.1 million in Series A funding, co-led by Broadview Ventures and Hatteras Venture Partners, with participation from Laerdal Million Lives Fund, OSF Ventures, UnityPoint Health Ventures, and Portal Innovations.
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Avisi Technologies raised a seed roundMedtech startup Avisi Technologies has raised a seed round, CEO Rui Jing Jiang confirmed to Technical.ly. The company — a 2020 RealLIST Startups honoree — aims to treat open-angle glaucoma with an ocular implant that’s designed to remove excess fluid from inside the eye.
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Avenda Health, an AI healthcare company creating the future of personalized prostate cancer care, today announced its cancer management platform, iQuestTM, has received 510(k) clearance by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
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Medical device and technology company Lazurite has received recognition from Medical Device Network Excellence Awards & Rankings, one of the largest, most prestigious, and widely recognized programs in the industry.
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Moon Surgical announced today that it received FDA 510(k) clearance for its Maestro surgical robotics system.
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Medical device and technology company Lazurite and Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS), the world’s leading academic medical center focused on musculoskeletal health, today announced a new collaborative relationship based on Lazurite’s ArthroFree™ Wireless Surgical Camera System, the first wireless surgical camera system to receive market clearance from the U.S.
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Kheiron Medical Technologies announced a new technology collaboration with Microsoft that is already supporting the detection of breast cancers alongside radiologists.
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Irish medtech Novus Diagnostics has secured €5m in equity financing to further develop its rapid detection sepsis test.
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New View Surgical, Inc., an emerging medical device company developing proprietary imaging and access technologies for minimally invasive surgery (MIS), today announced the closure of a $12.1M Series B-1 equity financing round to fund the commercialization of its VisionPort™ System.
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Johnson & Johnson Innovation, together with Johnson & Johnson Office of Military and Veterans Affairs, announced that AmacaThera, Hawkeye Bio, Inc., Garwood Medical Devices, LLC, Immunophotonics, Limax Biosciences, and Nanochon have been selected as the awardees in the Innovations for Vets QuickFire Challenge: Lung Cancer & Physical Trauma.
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Neocis®, manufacturer of Yomi® and the global leader in robot-assisted dental implant surgery, announced today that the company has completed its latest round of financing.
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Phiex Technologies Inc. won the audience vote for the grand prize of $350,000 and MedTech Innovator Award 2022 at the AdvaMed MedTech Conference in Boston, beating out finalists Moon Surgical, Limax Biosciences, LiveMetric and 52 North Health, which received $25,000 each.
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NeuroFlow, a behavioral health startup, has clinched $25 million in growth capital.
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$35,000 grantTero-Pekka Alastalo | CardioSignalTero-Pekka Alastalo, MD, PhD, is the president and chief medical officer of CardioSignal, a San Francisco area company that’s developed novel digital biomarkers for heart diseases.
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Genetesis, the market leader in next-generation biomagnetic imaging, has announced that it has closed $17.5 million in Series C Financing. The round was led by Mithril Capital with participation from Cercano Management as well as from existing investors, including JobsOhio Growth Capital, Ohio Innovation Fund and CincyTech.
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Arterys was just acquired by precision medicine AI powerhouse Tempus Labs, marking perhaps the biggest acquisition in the history of imaging AI, and highlighting the segment’s continued shift beyond traditional radiology use cases.
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Starlight Cardiovascular announced today that it has closed the first $9.48M in an $11.45M Series A financing, which will be used to progress development of its portfolio of pediatric interventional cardiology devices. The financing is led by Bird B and included conversion of previously-issued notes.
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Koya Medical, a healthcare company on a mission to transform lymphatic and venous care through a comprehensive suite of innovative, people-centric platforms, today announced two clinical data publications for the treatment of lymphedema and venous disease with its Dayspring® active compression system, including results from the multi-center, randomized, crossover head-to-head trial (NILE) published in the Journal of Vascular Surgery.
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Xenocor, a Utah-based medical device company, today announced that the FDA cleared the enhanced version of their Saberscope, the world’s first true HD, fog free, articulating, single-use laparoscope.
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The Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF) is pleased to announce that Puzzle Medical Devices Inc. has won the TCT 2022 Shark Tank Innovation Competition for its novel circulatory support device that is implanted percutaneously in the abdominal aorta.
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Stress is part of almost everyone’s daily lives. Studies show that it not only affects a person’s mental health, it also takes a physical toll on the body, releasing inflammatory hormones that can increase cardiovascular and cancer risk, among other issues. It has economic consequences as well.
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Funds to Support Commercial Expansion and Post-Market Clinical Studies of Tapestry® for tendon and ligament injuries.
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NYU Langone Health today announced the completion of the first orthopedic surgery in the United States using a completely wireless camera system. Orthopedic surgeon Laith M.
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Sentec and PyrAmes have established a commercial partnership to bring Boppli, PyrAmes’ first-of-its-kind continuous noninvasive blood pressure device, to neonatal intensive care teams throughout the United States.
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Universal Diagnostics (Universal DX), a bioinformatics and multi-omics company on a mission to transform cancer into a curable disease, today announced the results of a proof of principle study demonstrating that the analysis of microbiome signatures in plasma can assist in early detection of colorectal cancer (CRC).
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Drug Resistant Epilepsy TreatmentSYNERGIA MEDICAL SUCCESSFULLY RAISES SERIES B FUNDING OF €9 MILLIONThis financing assures the First-In-Human implantation of the NAO.VNS in 2023
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Medtech startup Nutromics has received a $14 million investment from strategic investors, including Dexcom Ventures, VU Venture Partners, and Artesian Investments.
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Otolith Labs, a medical technology company developing noninvasive wearable medical devices for the treatment of vestibular disorders, today announced the closing of a $20 million Series A financing round by Morningside Ventures.
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Millions around the world suffer strokes every year, and millions more are in recovery from one they’ve suffered. Regaining the use of affected limbs and capabilities is a long road, but one that can be shortened by intensive rehabilitation efforts — which Neurofenix has shown can take place in the home rather than during frequent trips to the hospital.
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Avenda Health, an AI healthcare company creating the future of personalized prostate cancer care, today announced it has raised $10M in Series B funding led by VCapital.
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Bio-integrated sensor developer Sibel Health announced today that it closed a $33 million Series B financing round.
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Newswise — The National Institutes of Health today announced the winners of its NIH Technology Accelerator Challenge (NTAC) for Maternal Health, a prize competition for developers of diagnostic technologies to help improve maternal health around the world.
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Retia Medical, a Valhalla, NY-based innovator in advanced hemodynamic monitoring, secured $15m in Series B funding.
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The field of medicine has moved into a new dimension in recent years as 3D printing technology has become more accurate and been adapted to work with biocompatible and biological materials that can be shaped into implants, drugs, scar tissue and even replacement organs.
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Empirical Spine, Inc., a medical device company creating a new class of spinal implant that works in parallel with the natural structures of the spine to restore functionality and optimize quality of life, recently had its Premarket Approval (PMA) Module II accepted and closed by the US Food & Drug Administration (FDA), an important milestone in the commercial approval process for its LimiFlex™ Dynamic Sagittal Tether™ (DST).The LimiFlex DST is the first-of-its-kind surgical option for grade 1 degenerative spondylolisthesis (degen spondy) patients with spinal stenosis.
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Medtronic made a minority investment in CathWorks in 2018, positioning it to monitor the progress of the Israeli startup. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted 510(k) clearance to FFRangio late in 2018.
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Eko, a digital health company advancing heart and lung disease detection, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared its Eko Murmur Analysis Software (EMAS) for detecting and characterizing murmurs found in adults and pediatric patients.
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Moving Analytics (Movn), a virtual at-home intervention program for high-risk cardiac patients, claims to be “the most clinically validated” cardiac rehabilitation program on the market.
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Anumana, Inc., an AI-driven health technology company from nference, Inc., today announced the American Medical Association (AMA) has issued new industry-first Category III Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes for novel assistive AI algorithmic electrocardiogram risk assessment for cardiac dysfunction, encompassing Anumana’s pipeline of AI-enhanced ECG-based algorithms currently in development for FDA regulatory clearance.
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Medical device and in vitro diagnostics company Surmodics has acquired Ireland-based medical device maker Vetex Medical to extend its thrombectomy portfolio.
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Centerline Biomedical, Inc. (Centerline), a private medical technology company, announced the closing of a $33 million Series B equity financing led by Cleveland Clinic with participation by GE Healthcare, RIK Enterprises, JobsOhio, Jumpstart Ventures and G2 Group Ventures.
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The Dutch startup works on the first anatomical meniscus prostheses for patients with chronic knee pain. Their ground-breaking innovation continues to attract international attention, paving the way towards full-scale healthcare implementation.
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Cordis-X is betting big on a next-generation technology that could provide protection against pulmonary embolisms (PE).
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Bright Uro, a medical device company with a mission to transform care for lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) through innovations in urodynamics, announced today the launch of the company with $4 million in seed financing from Academy Investor Network, Fred Moll, and several other prominent angel investors.
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Moon Surgical, a pioneer in collaborative robotics, today announced that it has secured $31.3 million in Series A funding. The financing round was led by GT Healthcare Capital & Partners, with participation by Johnson & Johnson Innovation – JJDC, Inc.
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The European Commission selected 74 innovative companies under the first 2022 EIC Accelerator cut-off. They are set to receive up to €382 million of funding in a combination of grants and investments.
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ATRO Medical B.V., based in the Netherlands, has been recognized by Johnson & Johnson Innovation as an Awardee in the Veterans Lead QuickFire Challenge.
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Results from early clinical evaluation of the Alleviant System to treat heart failure patients with preserved and reduced ejection fraction (HFpEF and HFrEF) was presented today as late-breaking clinical research at the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions (SCAI) 2022 Scientific Sessions.
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Linear Health Sciences has received the FDA’s 510(k) clearance and Health Canada approval for its Orchid SRV safety release valve.
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Iceland-based international digital therapeutics innovator, Sidekick Health, has partnered with Pfizer Inc., one of the world’s premier innovative biopharmaceutical companies.
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Australian medical device company OncoRes Medical today announces it has secured $12.5m to advance its innovative imaging system, to facilitate real-time tumour assessment to help surgeons more accurately identify and remove cancerous tissue such as breast cancer.
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It’s easy to see that Jim Biggins, Founder and CEO of Access Vascular, is an entrepreneur at heart. He started business ventures as a teenager and has since strategically steered his career path to strengthen the skills needed to eventually launch his own medical device company in 2015.
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For many cancer patients, one of the worst parts of the disease stems from the treatment itself: hair loss from chemotherapy.
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The Iceland-based digital health company – which has just raised $55 million in second-round funding – has been working with Bayer on an app/medicine combination for patients with peripheral artery disease since 2019, and in the following year cut a deal with Pfizer to take a similar approach to five inflammatory disease.
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Strados Labs, a medical technology company harnessing the power of smart sensors, machine learning and proprietary algorithms to provide early detection and predictions of worsening respiratory diseases, today announced it has received FDA Class II 510(k) clearance for home use of its first product, RESP®, which make this its second FDA clearance in less than 18 months.
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Ictero Medical, Inc., a medical device startup developing a novel cryoablation system to treat high-risk patients with gallstone disease, raised an oversubscribed $6M Series A financing led by MedTex Ventures, S3 Ventures, and an undisclosed strategic investor.
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Caretaker Medical, a digital health provider of wireless patient monitoring technologies, has received FDA 510(k) clearance for four new continuous hemodynamic parameters, adding cardiac output, stroke volume, heart rate variability, and left ventricular ejection time to its VitalStream non-invasive patient monitoring platform.
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NIDO Surgical announced today the acquisition of its innovative epicardial ablation technology, SEPIA (Solution for Epicardial Ablation), by an undisclosed medical device company involved in the electrophysiology space. As part of the transaction, the buyer has agreed to accelerate product development of the device.
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Innara Health, the industry leader in feeding development for newborns and infants born prematurely is collaborating with Cardinal Health on the redesign of the NTrainer System. The next generation NTrainer will be smaller, more intuitive, and easier to integrate into NICU feeding protocols.
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LimFlow SA, a pioneer in the development of minimally-invasive technology for the treatment of chronic limb-threatening ischemia (CLTI), a severe form of peripheral artery disease (PAD), today announced it has closed a $40 million (€36 million) oversubscribed Series D financing round.
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Galway medtech Tympany Medical is drumming up interest for its innovative endoscope design.
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Some veterans of Apple Inc.’s health and fitness efforts think they can help you figure that out. Their new startup, dubbed Cor, offers a device that can help people assess how their individual bodies respond to particular fitness and nutrition regimes.
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San Francisco’s Osso VR collected $66 million in Series C funding led by Oak HC/FT, the parties tell Axios exclusively.
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Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology, and Nuvo Group, a private company commercializing INVU by Nuvo™, an FDA-cleared, prescription-initiated, remote pregnancy monitoring platform, today announced a collaboration to develop a more inclusive pregnancy care experience from the prenatal stage through labor and delivery.
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Symplr®, the leader in enterprise healthcare operations, backed by Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. (together with its affiliates, “Clearlake”) and Charlesbank Capital Partners (together with its affiliates, “Charlesbank”), today announced that it has entered into an agreement to purchase GreenLight Medical, Inc.
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Vivante Health, the leading digital solution for digestive health and disease, has announced a $16 million Series A funding round led by 7wireVentures.
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Bluegrass Vascular Technologies has closed $5 million in convertible debt financing for its innovation, the Surfacer Inside-Out Access Catheter System. Convertible debt notes enable a startup without a valuation to raise capital quickly and less expensively than equity as an alternative to a conventional bank loan.
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Tasso, Inc., a leader in clinical-grade blood collection technology, today announced that it has been named by Fierce Medtech as one of 2021’s Fierce 15 med tech companies, designating it as one of the most promising private med tech companies in the industry.
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InVera Medical™ (formerly known as Venari Medical) are delighted to announce the publication of its pre-clinical feasibility study of the InVera™ minimally invasive, exclusively mechanical venous ablation device in Phlebology, an official journal of several international venous societies.
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MindMaze announced Thursday that it secured a $105-million financing round to accelerate its global growth plans, support ongoing R&D and consolidate the clinical development pipeline of its digital therapeutic solutions for neurological diseases.
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Epitel introduces REMI, a wearable, wireless EEG monitoring platform for seizure detection. Epitel’s first FDA-cleared product can be rapidly and easily applied by a nurse or hospital technician.
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Orthox Limited, a clinical stage company developing medical implants to repair damaged knee articular cartilage and other orthopaedic injuries, announces the completion of a further $4.3m (£3.2m) to close its $12.5m (£9.2m) Series A financing round.
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Day Zero Diagnostics, Inc., an infectious disease diagnostics company harnessing the power of whole-genome sequencing and machine learning to combat the rise of antibiotic-resistant infections, announced the completion of a $21M venture equity financing.
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Maria Artunduaga is the CEO and founder of Samay, a successful startup aimed at providing low-cost, at-home diagnostics for dangerous respiratory conditions.
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Koya Medical has announced the close of a US$26 million Series B financing. The round was led by 3×5 Partners, along with new investors including Asahi Kasei Ventures, Cadence Healthcare Ventures, and existing investors Arboretum Ventures and Scientific Health Development, among others.
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CroíValve, a Dublin based medical device company developing a novel treatment for tricuspid regurgitation, has raised a Series A round to fund a Feasibility clinical study with its DUO Coaptation Valve system.
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Applaud Medical Inc. has secured breakthrough device designation from the FDA for its acoustic enhancer technology to be used in conjunction with ureteroscopy with laser lithotripsy (URS-LL) for the fragmentation of calcium-based urinary stones.
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Vynca, a leading technology-enabled provider of holistic care for those with serious illnesses, raised $30 million in growth capital. The investment was led by Questa Capital with participation from existing investors including Generator Ventures, First Trust Capital Partners, 4100 Group and OCA Ventures.
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SafeHeal, a leading innovator in the field of digestive surgery and developer of the Colovac device, announced today a successful 40M€ financing, co-led by Sofinnova Partners and Genesis MedTech Group.
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Immediately after the procedure, Dr. Pimentel said, “The case went very well – even better than I imagined. The child did very well during the brief procedure which lasted less than 5 minutes.
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BioVentrix, Inc., a privately held medical device company focused on less invasive therapies to treat the left ventricle (LV), known to be the root cause of congestive heart failure (CHF), today announced that it has acquired MateraCor, Inc., a company focused on preventing progression of, and reversing, heart failure through the use of injectable alginate-based hydrogel.
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CoapTech, Inc, a medical device company focused on delivering transformative solutions for minimally-invasive surgery, announced today it has been awarded a $50,000 grant by the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia-based Pennsylvania Pediatric Medical Device Consortium (“PPDC”) for its PUMA-G Peds System, a device designed to provide a safer way to place feeding tubes in children.
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Distalmotion announced today the closing of a USD 90 million Series E financing to support the global commercialization of its surgical robot Dexter. Revival Healthcare Capital (Revival) led the round with participation from 415 CAPITAL (415), as well as existing investors.
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ChallengeToday, one in three Americans are diabetic or pre-diabetic. Globally, that number stands near a half billion, according to the WHO. In the best-case scenario, when a person is diagnosed with diabetes (typically type II), they’re under the care of a primary care physician.
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Series B round co-led by leading global investment firms Insight Partners and Clearlake Capital, with participation from existing investors
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The International Journal of Digital Health has published the 24-month clinical study results showing a sustained and significantly improved HbA1c result for people with diabetes utilizing the Pops Self-care Platform for self-management. https://www.graphyonline.com/archives/IJDH/2021/IJDH-107/
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Orbit Genomics, Inc., an early-stage genomics company, today announced that it has received $3 million in funding to launch its first product, OrbiSeq™ – L, a lung cancer diagnostic test which demonstrated significantly higher accuracy than any test currently marketed.
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Strados Labs, a medical technology company harnessing the power of smart sensors, machine learning and proprietary algorithms to provide early detection and predictions of worsening respiratory diseases, today announced its pre-series A round of funding at $4.5M.
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The COPD Foundation, a patient advocacy and research organization, and Wellinks, a digital health care company offering the first-ever integrated, virtual chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) management solution, today announced a partnership to recruit eligible patients for a new research study through the Foundation’s COPD Patient-Powered Research Network (COPD PPRN).
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Caira Surgical announced its latest influx of $5M seed capital in an oversubscribed series seed financing that closed last month. Caira’s investor syndicate includes smart-money venture and strategic MedTech investors.
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Spect is a telemedicine startup company that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) to diagnose eye diseases in patients. The startup business recently secured $3.5 million in new funding from investors to help accelerate the growth of its company and telemedicine platform.
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Rhaeos, Inc., a private, clinical stage medical device company developing a platform wireless and non-invasive wearable sensor initially targeting the neurosurgical suite, today announced the successful closing of its oversubscribed $2.2 million seed financing.
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The system facilitates simultaneous imaging of coronary arteries with both intravascular ultrasound and optical coherence tomography
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Tasso, Inc., a leader in clinical-grade blood collection technology, today announced that it has completed an oversubscribed $100 million Series B financing round, bringing the total funding to date to $131 million.
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FineHeart S.A, a preclinical medical device company that has developed the ICOMS FLOWMAKER®, an Implantable Cardiac Output Management System designed to address the unmet need of patients suffering from severe heart failure, today announced further funding of €6 million bringing the Series B total to €21 million, giving FineHeart a cash runway until the end of 2023.
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The company’s team of 20 scientists and engineers are working on ‘next-generation molecular detection’.
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Created by mOm Founder & CEO, James Roberts, and developed by mOm & the engineering team at eg technology, this innovative, lightweight incubator helped to sustain a premature baby’s life at St Peter’s Hospital, Chertsey.
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Galway-based medtech company Tympany Medical has raised €3.5 million in a seed investment round from backers that include the venture arm of the Mayo Clinic, which has been consistently ranked as the best hospital in the US.
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Neurent Medical has secured approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its NEUROMARK Rhinitis Neurolysis Therapy (RNT).
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Strados Labs, a medical technology company harnessing the power of smart sensors to aid in early detection and predictions of worsening diseases for enhanced patient care, announced today it was granted a CE Mark for the Company’s RESP™ Smart Sensor Platform for respiratory health.
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Avodah, a transformative SaaS company powering human-centered integrated artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities, announced today closing $7 million in seed funding to advance AvodahMed’s digital healthcare platform.
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Prenosis to provide enhanced Sepsis identification in remote environments with portable “Prenostics”, promising a new era of preemptive and precise diagnostic testing
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The Series B funding round will help PathologyWatch digitize biopsies, increase access to top skincare physicians, and further AI research
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Eko, a cardiopulmonary digital health company, has launched the next-generation Eko DUO. DUO is the first U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-cleared cardiac assessment tool that functions as an electrocardiogram (ECG) and digital stethoscope to detect early signs of heart disease and facilitate timely care and personalized disease management.
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From Johnson & Johnson’s latest robotics acquisition to NuVasive’s acquisition of an emerging spine technology, here are six medtech deals that caught the eye of readers in 2021.
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Nihon Kohden, a global leader in precision medical products and services, has acquired Advanced Medical Predictive Devices, Diagnostics and Displays Inc.
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nView medical Inc. (nView) announces the 510(k) clearance of the nView s1 with navigation option by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
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National Health Care Associates Inc., a network of affiliated skilled nursing, rehabilitation and assisted living centers throughout the northeast, and Circadia Technologies Ltd.
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Wellinks has raised $25 million in series C funding for its virtual platform for treating chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), the company announced Wednesday.
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The company intends to utilise the funds to support the development of world’s smallest microarray of sensors for continuous glucose monitoring
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Innovative technology designed to keep mothers and babies safe during childbirth
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The Breakthrough Device Designation is an FDA designation granted to devices that provide more effective treatment or diagnosis of life-threatening or irreversibly debilitating diseases or conditions.
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Sibel Health has received its first 510(k) marketing clearance from the FDA for its Anne One wireless vital signs monitoring platform.
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Strados Labs has developed a wearable device that senses lung sounds in patients with asthma, COPD, and other respiratory disorders. The startup, which has FDA clearance and a growing list of customers, was judged the winner in the Pitch Perfect competition at MedCity News’ recent INVEST Digital Health conference.
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The Northwest Arkansas Tech Summit declared Ryan Shelton, CEO and Co-founder of PhotoniCare, as winner of the pitch competition.
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Organised by France Biotech, the French professional association of healthtech entrepreneurs, the event rewards the companies that have made the biggest impact on the sector this year.
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Mia®, a deep learning artificial intelligence (AI) solution that works with radiologists to improve breast cancer detection, avoid unnecessary biopsies and ultimately improve the patient experience for all women is being launched in Oman.
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CathWorks announced that the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) has agreed to provide reimbursement for the CathWorks FFRangio System, making it more broadly available for coronary artery disease decision-making in Japan.
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GT Medical Technologies, Inc. today announced it was named a winner of the Innovator of the Year in the small company category at the 2021 Governor’s Celebration of Innovation, presented live on stage by the Arizona Technology Council and the Arizona Commerce Authority on October 13.
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Medgadget had the opportunity to speak with Sandra Saldana, CEO & Co-Founder of Alva Health about the firm’s technology.
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Startup incubator and new business accelerator HealthTech Arkansas has selected five new companies to participate in its next cohort that launches on Nov. 2.
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Every October for the last four decades, Breast Cancer Awareness Month has helped to raise visibility of the most prevalent cancer on Earth — one that takes almost three-quarters of a million lives every year.
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Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX) today announced it has acquired Chicago-based Explorer Surgical Corp., operator of a comprehensive digital and remote case support platform that connects suppliers with healthcare provider teams.
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Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX) today announced it has acquired Chicago-based Explorer Surgical Corp., operator of a comprehensive digital and remote case support platform that connects suppliers with healthcare provider teams.
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Subtle Medical, a healthcare technology company improving the quality and efficiency of medical imaging, announced today Health Canada/Santé Canada approval for their suite of AI-powered image enhancement solutions.
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Prenosis, Inc., a precision diagnostics company transforming clinical diagnosis with predictive intelligence, announced today the expansion of an existing partnership with Roche Diagnostics that will total close to $6M to improve and expedite the clinical recognition of sepsis through advanced precision diagnostics.
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Subtle Medical, a healthcare technology company improving the quality and efficiency of medical imaging, announced today Health Canada/Santé Canada approval for their suite of AI-powered image enhancement solutions.
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FDA also granted breakthrough designation to Novian Health’s laser therapy for breast cancer. The minimally invasive system is designed to destroy tumors using laser ablation, enabling breast cancer patients to get treated without surgery.
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Electronic health record burnout is a global issue that, like everything else in healthcare, has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Babyscripts, the leading virtual care platform for managing obstetrics, announced today that they are entering into a collaboration with Nuvo Group, a company commercializing INVU by Nuvo™, an FDA-cleared, prescription-initiated, remote pregnancy monitoring platform.
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The American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons has just recognized that when integrated in patient education, Knee Kinesiography with the KneeKG system provides statistically significant and clinically superior improvements compared to the results obtained with current standard of care.
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The FlowSense technology was born out of the Rogers Research Lab at Northwestern University. Leading engineers and neurosurgeons recognized an unmet clinical need in hydrocephalus patients and developed a technology to assess fluid flow subdermally in shunts.
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Graphwear co-founders Saurabh Radhakrishnan and Rajatesh Gudibande want to make CGMs that use nanotechnology to measure blood glucose levels.
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MindMaze, a global pioneer in the multibillion-dollar digital neurotherapeutics market, today announced the closing of a USD 125 millioninvestment round that will be utilized to drive the continued growth of its SaaS-based digital neurotherapeutics platform.
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Magellan Healthcare, the behavioral and specialty healthcare division of Magellan Health, Inc. (NASDAQ: MGLN), today announced a collaborative care management solution for health plans and providers that will enhance behavioral healthcare services delivered in physical healthcare settings.
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Magellan Healthcare, the behavioral and specialty healthcare division of Magellan Health, Inc. (NASDAQ: MGLN), today announced a collaborative care management solution for health plans and providers that will enhance behavioral healthcare services delivered in physical healthcare settings.
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Many of us remember learning about the mitochondria, the powerhouse of the cell, in school. But few of us learned what happens when the cell’s powerhouse no longer works properly: Mitochondria dysfunction has been tied to many medical conditions, including heart disease, stroke, diabetes, Parkinson’s, and Alzheimer’s.
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Day Zero Diagnostics, Inc., an infectious disease diagnostics company harnessing the power of whole-genome sequencing and machine learning to combat the rise of antibiotic-resistant infections, has won the 2021 Disruptive Technology Award from The American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC) and the Audience Choice Award.
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Nanowear, a leading hospital-at-home and remote diagnostic platform informed by proprietary cloth nanotechnology and AI, today announced that it received its third FDA 510(k) clearance and first software-only clearance as an end-to-end digital platform, illustrating unique capabilities available to enterprise customer channels across a broad spectrum of diagnostic and monitoring verticals.
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The INVEST Digital Health Pitch Perfect contest spotlighted 18 companies across three categories: home health, chronic disease management and value-based care, and technology to support payer and provider efficiency. So who emerged as the winners and how did the judges arrive at their choices?
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Integrated devices and artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled technologies like AIDI have the potential to provide early and actionable health status information to empower individuals and health care providers.
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The INVEST Digital Health Pitch Perfect contest spotlighted 18 companies across three categories: home health, chronic disease management and value-based care, and technology to support payer and provider efficiency. So who emerged as the winners and how did the judges arrive at their choices?
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Integrated devices and artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled technologies like AIDI have the potential to provide early and actionable health status information to empower individuals and health care providers.
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Chennai: Congenital Heart Defects (CHDs) are among the most common types of birth defects. One out of 100 babies is born with CHD worldwide and nearly 40,000 infants in the US are born with CHD each year.
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Chennai: Congenital Heart Defects (CHDs) are among the most common types of birth defects. One out of 100 babies is born with CHD worldwide and nearly 40,000 infants in the US are born with CHD each year.
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The awards are part of the Healthy Longevity Global Competition – a multiyear, multimillion-dollar international competition seeking breakthrough innovations to extend human health and function later in life.
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Xealth, the leader in enabling digital health at scale, today announced that the company has secured $24 million in Series B funding led by Advocate Aurora Enterprises, a subsidiary of Advocate Aurora Health.
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Along with co-founder Brandon Kao, Rui Jing Jiang started Avisi Technologies in 2017, developing VisiPlate, a nanotechnology-enabled ocular implant to treat glaucoma.
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Along with co-founder Brandon Kao, Rui Jing Jiang started Avisi Technologies in 2017, developing VisiPlate, a nanotechnology-enabled ocular implant to treat glaucoma.
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Bluegrass Vascular Technologies (Bluegrass Vascular), a private medical technology company focused on innovating lifesaving devices and methods for vascular access procedures, announced today that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has finalized a new Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) code and New Technology Ambulatory Payment Classification (APC) assignment for use of the Surfacer® Inside-Out® Access Catheter System (Surfacer System) procedure.
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Rhaeos, Inc., a private medical device company focused on the care of patients with hydrocephalus, announced today it was awarded a $4 million, multi-year grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program through the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS).
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“We’ve heard repeatedly from participants in our clinical studies that the Otolith technology brings instant relief from their vertigo symptoms, some of whom have described the treatment as life-changing,”
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Madorra this week said it has received FDA breakthrough device designation for its noninvasive, home-use device for moderate to severe vulvovaginal atrophy.
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We are excited to announce that last night Nutromics won in the category of ‘Technology Platform Solution of the Year’ at the AIIA‘s 2021 national iAwards!
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InBrace, the orthodontic company behind the novel Smartwire™ category of behind-the-teeth, teeth straightening, today announced the closing of an oversubscribed $102 million Series D financing by funds affiliated with new investor groups co-led by Farallon Capital Management, L.L.C.
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– Stryker today announced the acquisition of Gauss Surgical, a Menlo Park, CA-based medical device company that has developed Triton™, an artificial intelligence-enabled platform for real-time monitoring of blood loss during surgery. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.
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Sentien Biotechnologies, Inc., a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing novel approaches to cell therapy, today announced a partnership with the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), part of the office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response at the U.S.
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Onkos Surgical, a leading innovator of solutions for musculoskeletal oncology and complex orthopedic procedures based in Parsippany, announced Wednesday that it has raised $15 million in Series C funding from its existing investor syndicate.
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Nutromics, an Australian medical technology startup, has raised A$5.7 million ($4.1 million) in a pre-market funding round participated by private investors. This brings its total capital raised in the past three years to A$10 million ($7.2 million).
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Eclipse Regenesis, Inc., developer of the first restorative therapy to address pediatric and adult Short Bowel Syndrome, has been awarded a National Institutes of Health Small Business Innovation Research (NIH SBIR) Fast Track grant of $1.7 million.
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Genetesis, the market leader in the design, development and commercialization of biomagnetic imaging solutions, today announced its new Scientific Advisory Board (SAB).
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Independence Blue Cross Foundation is teaming up with Trinity Health Mid-Atlantic and health tech company NeuroFlow to support its workers’ mental health.
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Lightpoint Medical, a leading medical device company developing and marketing miniaturized imaging and sensing tools for minimally-invasive and robot-assisted surgery, announced today that it has signed a strategic collaboration agreement with Telix Pharmaceuticals Limited.
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India’s drug regulator on Friday approved Zydus Cadila’s three-dose COVID-19 DNA vaccine for emergency use in adults and children aged 12 years and above, bringing in the sixth vaccine authorised for use in the country.
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CloudCath, developer of a remote monitoring and predictive analytics platform for catheter-based treatments, is collaborating with American Renal Associates (ARA), a leading provider of outpatient dialysis services.
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Scancell Holdings PLC (AIM:SCLP, FRA:SCP) (AIM:SCLP) said it will use PharmaJet’s needle-free technology to administer Covid vaccine candidates SCOV1 and SCOV2 in its COVIDITY phase I clinical trial.
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Molecular diagnostic testing for stroke is in its infancy, but Ischemia Care…
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Auctus Surgical, a company devoted to non-fusion options for scoliosis patients, is developing a one-of-a-kind vertebral body tethering (VBT) system to treat pediatric scoliosis with a non-fusion, dynamic approach.
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Koya Medical, a healthcare company focused on developing breakthrough treatments for lymphedema and venous diseases, announced today that its wearable, active compression therapy system for lymphedema—Dayspring™— was issued new billing codes by the Center of Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in accordance with the Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS).
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Encellin, a personalized regenerative medicine biotech company developing novel cell-based approaches to deliver sustained therapies with a single implant, today announced the closing of a $5.9M Seed financing round.
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Embody, Inc., a privately-held medical device company focused on soft tissue healing, announced today that it has secured $11.5 million in an oversubscribed equity financing and entered into a debt financing agreement led by Horizon Technology Finance Corporation (NASDAQ: HRZN) (“Horizon”) to provide up to $9 million in term loans, of which an initial $5 million has been funded, for a total of $20.5 million in available funds.
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Iterative Scopes, a Massachusetts-based AI Health startup, raised $30 million in Series A funding to apply the potential of AI to gastroenterology.
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“Our partnership with OrthoPediatrics is based on a shared mission and passion to help each child who is experiencing a medical challenge. Knowing how much is at stake, the Mighty Oak team has dedicated itself to providing the most detailed concierge presurgical plans, the most exact spine models, and the most accurate patient-specific spine guides available anywhere in the world.
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– NeuroFlow, a provider of technology and services for the integration of behavioral health, has been hired by the US Naval Academy to support the well-being of the Midshipmen during their 47-month journey to be commissioned as naval officers.
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Amwell is acquiring two digital health startups for a combined $320 million as the publicly traded telehealth company looks to expand its platform offerings beyond the Covid-fueled virtual care boom.
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A Houston company that’s changing the game when it comes to early bleed detection has raised its next round of funding.
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Evren Technologies, Inc. announced today that its non-invasive Phoenix® earbud device received Breakthrough Device Designation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
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The Boston startup ecosystem is one of the most active and thriving in the world, which also means that there are a lot of top startups in Boston. The total early-stage startup funding in the ecosystem dwarves the global average of $431 Million with a total of $3.9 Billion.
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MedTech Innovator has unveiled its Top 50 Medtech Startups Selected for its annual showcase. Indiana’s own FAST BioMedical was one of just few startups in the Midwest to be selected. Joe Muldoon explains how his startup is working to transform patient care through innovation.
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Medical device and in vitro diagnostics company Surmodics has acquired Ireland-based medical device maker Vetex Medical to extend its thrombectomy portfolio.
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IntuiTap Medical develops a device aimed at making the administration of spinal injections more accurate and efficient for health care providers.
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Osso VR has raised $27 million to train doctors and other medical professionals using virtual reality surgery simulations.
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National Institute of Mental Health data shows that more than 17.3 million U.S. adults have suffered from an episode of major depression in the past year, and one in three are afflicted by an anxiety disorder. Mental health conditions often go underdiagnosed and undertreated.
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Alio Medical, a wearable technology company enabling greater insights through clinical grade real-time data, announced the close of a Series B financing round totaling $20 million.
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Koya Medical, a medtech company based in California, has developed the Dayspring active compression system for the treatment of lymphedema. The company received FDA clearance for the use of Dayspring on the upper extremities in June 2020, and just recently announced 510(k) clearance for use in the lower extremities.
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Onkos Surgical today announced that it received FDA 510(k) clearance for its BioGrip 3D-printed implant technology.
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Bone Health Technologies, an innovator of progressive new therapies for improving bone health, announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has awarded its second patent for the OsteoBoost Vibration Belt.
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Vivante Health, the leader in digital medicine for digestive health and disease, proudly announces the GIMate, a first-of-its-kind handheld breath hydrogen monitor.
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Neurescue, a medical device company developing innovative cardiovascular solutions to improve the outcomes for emergency patients, today announced that the U.S.
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CloudCath, developer of a remote monitoring and predictive analytics platform for catheter-based treatments, today announced a collaboration with American Renal Associates (ARA), a leading provider of outpatient dialysis services.
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For me, the Sana Health device was truly a gift from the universe. I’ve been very open about my struggles with pain stemming from my autoimmune disorders and I was extremely grateful when representatives at Sana connected with me and offered to send me a device to help with my healing.
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Avenda Health, a medtech company based in Santa Monica, California has developed the Focal Therapy System. It provides AI-powered prostate cancer therapy with the aim of treating only tumorous tissues, while reducing side-effects compared with conventional therapies.
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FineHeart S.A, a preclinical medical device company that has developed theICOMS FLOWMAKER®, an Implantable Cardiac Output Management System designed to address the unmet need of patients suffering from severe heart failure, today announced the successful completion of a €15 million funding round.
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Empirical Spine, Inc., maker of the LimiFlex Paraspinous Tension Band, today announced the closing of a Series B financing of $10 million. SHD (Scientific Health Development) led the round, with additional investment from GP&G (Green Park & Golf) and other syndicate members.
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Zenflow, Inc., a medical device company developing a minimally invasive treatment for urinary obstruction caused by enlarged prostate, or benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), today announced that it has closed a $24 million Series B financing round.
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PAVmed Inc. (Nasdaq: PAVM, PAVMZ) (the “Company” or “PAVmed”), a highly differentiated, multi-product, commercial-stage medical technology company, today announced the launch of a new subsidiary, digital health company Veris Health Inc.
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Houston-based medical device company Allotrope Medical Inc. raised a $4 million funding round, the firm announced June 1.
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NUI Galway BioInnovate spin-out Venari Medical has developed a minimally invasive medical device that it hopes can tackle CVD at early and extreme stages.
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Today the American Society of Neuroradiology published Introducing BrainSee, a summary of study results presenting the 91 percent accuracy rate of the new AI-powered and patented technology by Darmiyan Inc.
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Medical technology pioneer Forest Devices, Inc. (FDI), a medical device company focused on identifying patients with large vessel occlusive (LVO) strokes in the prehospital environment, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has designated its AlphaStroke technology as a Breakthrough Device.
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Thirty-six Colorado startups secured almost $8.6 million in grants as part of the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade’s Advanced Industries Accelerator Program.
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Alleviant Medical Inc., a privately-held medical device company, today announced one-month and three-month follow up data from the first in human clinical study (ALLEVIATE-HF-1) of its technology for the treatment of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF).
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Having breast surgery to remove a cancerous lump is traumatic enough. Learning that you’ll need another operation to remove cancer cells that the surgeon couldn’t detect the first time only adds to the worry — and the cost.
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Avenda Health has been awarded Breakthrough Device Designation for a male “lumpectomy” product in development designed to treat prostate cancer in-office while preserving quality of life.
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PolyVascular, leading the effort to improve children’s lives with a novel polymeric transcatheter valve (PTV) for children, announced that it was awarded a $2 million Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II grant earlier this year to bring its polymeric stent-mounted valve (SMV) to clinical trials within the next two years in an effort to address pediatric congenital heart disease (CHD), which affects over 1 million patients around the world.
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Bigfoot Biomedical is a company that MD+DI readers should be quite familiar with by now. In 2017, the diabetes company was selected as the readers’ choice for Medtech Company of the Year.
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Mindera Corporation today announced a $12.6M Series A-2 capital raise. The round was led by Mountain Group Partners, Rockmont Investments, and Scientific Health Development.
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Nanowear www.nanowearinc.com, the leading nanotechnology and A.I.-based remote diagnostic company, today announced a commercial distribution partnership with a world leading aesthetic and reconstructive surgical device-manufacturer, to enhance and optimize post-surgical recovery for both patients and surgeons.
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This study confirms the ICOMS FLOWMAKER’s ability to support cardiac function without any heart alteration after being implanted for 30 days. The device’s unique fixation system allows for easy removal performed on a beating heart, unchanged blood flow, and without trauma to the myocardium.
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Bone Health Technologies has closed a $2.5 million funding round and appointed three members to its Board of DIrectors: Karen Drexler; Nancy Lynch, M.D.; and Sam Goldberger, M.D.
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The SoundBite® Crossing System – Peripheral (14P) is a recanalization tool, designed to help physician’s placement of conventional guidewires or treatment devices in the intraluminal space beyond chronic total occlusions (CTOs) in patients suffering from heavily calcified above-the-knee (ATK) and below-the-knee (BTK) peripheral artery disease (PAD).
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PyrAmes, Inc., a digital healthcare company focused on innovative products for continuous blood pressure monitoring, today announced the completion of a $6 million Series A financing. The investment round was led by GSR Ventures, with co-investments from Keytone Ventures, XTX Ventures and other investors.
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Moving Analytics, a telehealth company providing virtual cardiac rehab solutions, today announced it raised $6M in a Series Seed-2 round. The round was led by Aphelion Capital, LLC, through Cardeation Capital, with co-investments by OCA Ventures and Seae Ventures.
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Medable Inc. today announced $78 million in new funding to fuel advances in the delivery of digital and decentralized clinical trials, accelerating the industry’s shift to patient-centered drug development.
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2Morrow, Inc., a leader in offering evidence-based, digital health platforms, announces a $1.5M investment led by Seattle area life science investor WRF Capital.
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Robotics startup Moray Medical announced it has closed a total of $5.7 million in seed funding, an increase of $2.4 million compared to the initial raise reported in January.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Donisi‘s revolutionary contact-free multiparameter measurement system de novo clearance, making Donisi the first to bring this innovative technology to the medical market.
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Explorer Surgical has raised nearly $2.6 million as it brings on medtech company customers looking to communicate with surgeons remotely.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Breakthrough Device status to Empirical Spine Inc.’s LimiFlex Paraspinous Tension Band.
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Sentien Biotechnologies, Inc., a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing novel approaches to cell therapy, today announced it has completed enrollment of the first cohort in its Phase 1/2 study of SBI-101 for the treatment of severe COVID-19.
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Augmedics, a pioneer in augmented reality surgical image guidance, announced today that it has raised $36 million in an over-subscribed Series C financing with an international syndicate of Israel-US investors.
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PolyVascular, leading the effort to improve children’s lives with a novel polymeric transcatheter valve (PTV) for children, announced today that it was awarded a $2 million Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II grant earlier this year to bring its polymeric stent-mounted valve (SMV) to clinical trials within the next two years in an effort to address pediatric congenital heart disease (CHD), which affects over 1 million patients around the world.
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Heart disease is the world’s biggest killer, and around one in five people in developed countries will suffer heart failure in their lifetime.
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Lightpoint Medical, a medical device company developing miniaturized cancer detection tools for robot-assisted surgery, announced today that it has completed an $8 million financing round.
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Endotronix, Inc., a digital health and medical technology company dedicated to advancing the treatment of heart failure, today announced the 100th global implant of the Cordella Pulmonary Artery Pressure Sensor (Cordella Sensor) by Cardiologist and top worldwide implanter Faisal Sharif, MD of Bon Secours Hospital and Director of Cardiovascular Research at NUIG, both in Galway, Ireland.
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LimFlow SA, a pioneer in the development of minimally-invasive technology for the treatment of chronic limb-threatening ischemia (CLTI), a severe form of peripheral artery disease (PAD), announced today that the Japanese Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency (PMDA) has approved its Clinical Trial Notification (CTN) for the Japanese cohort of the ongoing PROMISE II pivotal trial of the LimFlow Percutaneous Deep Vein Arterialization (pDVA) System.
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SeaSpine Holdings Corporation (NASDAQ: SPNE), a global medical technology company focused on surgical solutions for the treatment of spinal disorders, announced today that it has entered into an agreement to acquire all of the issued and outstanding shares of 7D Surgical, Inc., a privately-held, Toronto-based company, in a cash and stock deal valued at $110 million, subject to customary adjustments.
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ExplORer Surgical, the only comprehensive intraoperative case support and workflow platform for surgical teams, is announcing enhanced efficiency and proficiency through its powerful data insight technology.
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Vetex Medical Ltd. today announced positive one-year results from a European clinical study of patients with iliofemoral vein thrombus that demonstrated that the ReVene® Thrombectomy Catheter significantly improved their symptoms and quality of life, while reducing their leg swelling.
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Bigfoot Biomedical, a company dedicated to better health outcomes for people with insulin-requiring diabetes, announced today that it has secured new financing of up to $57 million from Madryn Asset Management LP, an alternative asset management firm focused on investments in innovative health care companies.
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Inflammatix, a pioneering molecular diagnostics company, announced today the closing of a $102 million Series D round of financing to support development and commercialization of its novel immune response diagnostics portfolio.
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The start-up, which has already obtained a patent for its invention, hopes to conduct a clinical trial in 2021 and 2022.
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The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Promaxo, Inc. (Promaxo) a 510(k) clearance for its revolutionary office-based MRI system. The 510(k) clearance enables practices and hospitals to accurately and seamlessly guide prostate interventions under the Promaxo scanner.
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Access Vascular, Inc., a company addressing the most common and costly venous access complications, today announced it has closed on a Series B round of financing. TVM Capital Life Science led the round with a $15 million commitment, with existing investors also participating.
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The privately-held firm recently received Health Canada’s blessing for the SoundBite Crossing System – Peripheral (SCS-P) with the 0.014-inch Active Wire (14P).
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Vetex Medical Ltd. today announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance for the ReVene® Thrombectomy Catheter. ReVene uses dual-action technology designed to de-clot peripheral vessels, such as in Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT), through wall-to-wall contact in a single session without the use of thrombolytics.
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Protembis GmbH, a privately held emerging medical device company, announced today the successful completion of 20 clinical cases in its European regulatory study of the ProtEmbo® Cerebral Protection System.
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The Redox cofounders got a taste of the coming digital health revolution while working at Verona, Wisconsin-based Epic Systems in the late aughts. That’s when they saw the hundreds of different interfaces electronic health records needed to connect to within a health system.
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Medical technology pioneer Forest Devices, Inc. (FDI) today announced the publication of positive results from the EDGAR study of its AlphaStroke™ technology in identifying patients with large vessel occlusive (LVO) strokes in emergency departments in the American Heart Association Journal, STROKE.
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MedAware Systems’ Science of Health Informatics (SOHInfo) announces the launch of its comprehensive AI-powered surveillance service for Spinal Cord and Peripheral Nerve stimulation devices from all major manufacturers.
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Access Vascular, Inc. today announced FDA clearance of its HydroMID™ midline catheter. HydroMID, which is made of Access Vascular’s proprietary biomaterial that has been shown to reduce thrombus accumulation by up to 97 percent when compared to standard polyurethane catheters,1 is the second device in its planned portfolio to obtain clearance.
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Fibralign Corp., a Stanford spin-out and developer of therapeutic biomedical devices, today announced enrollment of the first patient in a multi-site, randomized clinical trial in Europe evaluating its BioBridge® Collagen Matrix as a novel preventative treatment for secondary lymphedema.
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Puzzle Medical Devices Inc., (www.puzzlemed.com) announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted the company a Breakthrough Device Designation for its revolutionary transcatheter pump to address heart failure.
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Swedish firm Flow Neuroscience has added to its portfolio of brain stimulation technologies for improving mental wellbeing by acquiring US start-up Halo Neuroscience.
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Moray Medical announced today that it has raised $3.3 million in seed funding led by 415 CAPITAL, which invested alongside a number of prominent medtech entrepreneurs.
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PEDRA™ Technology, a privately-held company, announced today that the U.S Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted the company a Breakthrough Device Designation for the periprocedural use of its PEDRA™ Xauron™ Perfusion System in the treatment of critical limb threatening ischemia (CLTI).
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Alleviant Medical Inc., a privately-held medical device company, today announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted the company a Breakthrough Device designation for its transcatheter technology.
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MobileODT, an Israeli FemTech startup focusing on AI-powered cervical screening, has caught the eye of the US National Cancer Institute (NCI), with the NCI awarding Mobile ODT with a $2.3 million grant.
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cellvie Inc., the leader in Therapeutic Mitochondria Transfer (TMT) and a Harvard University spin-off, closes a $5M round to advance its product pipeline, including a first application in rejuvenation.
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Lightpoint Medical announced Wednesday that its SENSEI robotic gamma probe received the CE mark for intra-operative detection of sentinel lymph nodes. The company said the approval makes SENSEI the first robotic gamma probe to be commercially available to hospitals in Europe.
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Hillrom (NYSE: HRC) today announced it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Bardy Diagnostics, Inc. (BardyDx), an innovator in digital health and a leading provider of ambulatory cardiac monitoring technologies.
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During its meeting on December 22, 2020, held via video conference, the Board of Governors of the Israel-U.S. Binational Industrial Research and Development (BIRD) Foundation approved $7.45 million in funding for eight new projects between U.S.
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HD medical is hoping to bridge the gap between your home and the doctor’s office with HealthyU, a little device that measures your vital signs remotely and feeds them directly to your medical provider.
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Ideaship, a patent leveraged venture capital firm that provides patent development support to early-stage startups, announced it has invested in 8chili, Inc. The investment will assist 8chili’s mission to reimagine surgical training and surgeries with 8chili’s patent pending device, NAVIX AIR.
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Koya Medical (www.koyamedical.com), a healthcare company focused on treating lymphedema and vein disease, today announced the close of a $11 million Series A investment round.
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Promaxo, Inc. (Promaxo), the medical imaging, robotics, and AI technology company, and Huami Corp. (NYSE: HMI) today announced closing an investment round of $4.17M led by Huami.
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Leading Israeli sleep apnea digital health company Itamar Medical has announced its acquisition of Spry Health in a bid to expand its product offerings into remote monitoring and support for the condition.
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Irish company Novus Diagnostics has been awarded €2.4 million in funding to commercialise its rapid sepsis test.
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NeuroFlow, the market leader in solutions supporting technology-enabled behavioral health integration, announces today the initial closing of a $20M Series B financing round led by Magellan Health (NASDAQ: MGLN), in addition to a syndicate including previous investors.
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Though uncommon, hydrocephalus impacts patients’ lives chronically, requiring regular hospital visits to respond to symptoms and simply monitor status.
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CathWorks reported the completion of a $30 million Series D financing round. Proceeds from the financing will be used to expand commercialization of the company’s FFRangio system.
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We are elated to announce the closing of our oversubscribed Series Seed financing; we raised ~$2M in 2020, $1M of which was in the form of grant funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
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Medical device specialists often monitor the work of surgeons to provide case support during procedures in the operating room. However, during the COVID-19 pandemic, medical proctoring has gone remote.
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Formerly known as Embrace Orthopaedics, the Vancouver-based brand Stoko merges “functional support and activewear” for athletes.
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cellvie, a company based in Houston, Texas, is developing a mitochondrial transplantation therapy to help reduce the damage caused by ischemia-reperfusion injury.
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Strados Labs, a health technology developer of remote respiratory devices and software, today announced it has received FDA Class II 510(k) clearance for its first product, RESP™, a system for measuring, recording and analyzing lung sounds remotely across healthcare settings.
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Onkos Surgical, Inc., an innovator in the field of musculoskeletal oncology and personalized orthopaedics, continues to deliver on its promise of commercializing innovative solutions with the launch of the new ELEOS Proximal Tibia with BioGrip technology.
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The #EICAccelerator results were released last week for the final (and most competitive ever!) cut-off of the new blended programme. SepTec Ltd is proud to announce that we were one of the 38 companies chosen as Europe’s most promising start-ups and SMEs by the European Innovation Council and was awarded €7.4 Million in blended funding to develop and scale up our ground-breaking innovation.
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Avenda Health, a software and medical device company that spun out of UCLA, announced today that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared their focal laser ablation system.
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Centerline Biomedical, Inc. (Centerline) announced Tuesday the completion of the first surgical case in its MOTION clinical study of its innovative Intra-Operative Positioning System (IOPS™) surgical navigation platform.
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Genetesis, Inc. announced today that its flagship product, CardioFlux®, has been granted Breakthrough Device Designation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the diagnosis of myocardial ischemia and infarction in patients with symptoms suggestive of acute coronary syndrome.
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Bone Health Technologies, creator of the OsteoBoost Vibration Belt that promises to reduce the risk of osteoporosis, has been granted “Breakthrough Device”
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Avelas Biosciences, Inc., pioneering the field of intraoperative fluorescent cancer imaging, today announced that the company has received Breakthrough Therapy designation from the U.S.
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The year 2020 has undoubtedly provided those in healthcare and technology communities with multiple problems to solve. From enabling telemedicine at scale to creating and distributing an entirely new vaccine, the problems caused by the pandemic have required collaboration, investment and adoption at speed previously unseen in healthcare.
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Infectious disease startup Day Zero Diagnostics last week received a $300,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to further develop its nanopore sequencing-based technology for the analysis of healthcare-associated infection (HAI) outbreaks.
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The largest global medtech-only accelerator, Medtech Innovator had over 1,000 applicants in 2020 and CEO, Paul Grand, and his team successfully pivoted in March 2020 to a virtual competition due to COVID.
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Chronic constipation is associated with various comorbidities and reduced quality of life. Current solutions, either pharmacological or invasive, show limited efficacy.
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Vectorious Medical Technologies today announced that the FDA has granted breakthrough device designation for the company’s left atrial pressure (LAP) monitoring device.
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Children’s National Hospital today performed the first surgical use of breakthrough medical imaging technology designed specifically for kids. The innovation, insta-3D™ imaging from company nView medical, is designed to make 3D images available in the operating room quickly and safely.
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GT Medical Technologies, Inc., a company dedicated to improving the lives of patients with brain tumors, today announced it has raised $16 million in a Series B financing led by MVM Partners with participation from existing investors MedTech Venture Partners and BlueStone Venture Partners.
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Glucose monitoring has come a long way in helping to reduce dangerous low blood sugars, but we haven’t seen the same capabilities for detecting and preventing high blood sugars that can lead to deadly Diabetic Ketoacidosis (DKA).
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ExplORer Surgical, a Chicago-based startup that’s developed an interactive platform for surgeons, has launched a new suite of advanced audio and video capabilities to make remote support easier in the operating room (OR).
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Subtle Medical, a healthcare technology company, just announced its latest funding round – a $12.2 million Series A investment led by 3E Bioventures Capital with participation from Fusion Fund, Data Collective, Delta Capital, Tsingyuan Ventures and continued support from other seed investors.
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The clinical trial management software developer Medable has raised $91 million in a new round of financing as life sciences companies struggle with how to conduct the necessary validation studies of new drugs and devices in a pandemically challenged environment.
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Allotrope Medical™ Inc., a company committed to advancing surgical safety and precision, today announced its FDA clearance of their device, StimSite. StimSite provides ob/gyns, general and colorectal surgeons the new ability to use their existing surgical instruments to help locate and identify ureters using electrical stimulation.
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Alira Health (www.alirahealth.com), a leading international healthcare and life sciences advisory firm, congratulates X-COR Therapeutics for closing a $2.6M seed financing to continue developing its novel extracorporeal carbon dioxide removal device toward clinical trials.
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CoapTech Inc. announced today that the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) within the National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded CoapTech a two-year, $1.6M R44 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II grant on September 22, 2020 to finalize development of and trial its Pediatric PUMA-G System.
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Nanowear www.nanowearinc.com, the leading connected-care and remote diagnostic platform, today announced it has received FDA Class II 510(k) clearance for a first-of-its-kind cloth-based diagnostic platform, SimpleSENSE.
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The UCSF Rosenman Institute announced today the startups selected in “UCSF Rosenman ADAPT,” a competitive global program for startup companies developing solutions to increase healthcare efficiency.
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SepTec Ltd Is immensely proud to be one of the 6 winners of the EIT HEALTH UK-IRELAND #Headstart €10,000 top up pitch! This is a massive opportunity for the team and we are extremely grateful!
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In 2017, Brandon Kao of Penn Engineering and Rui Jing Jiang and Adarsh Battu of the Wharton School devised a way to use a nanoscale material in the treatment of a form of glaucoma.
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PercuSense, an intelligent biosensor and digital health company, announced it has been awarded a $2.5 million program-related investment in the form of a loan from The Leona M.
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At present, mitral heart valve failure is treated through invasive surgery or via a transcatheter procedure called Transcatheter Edge-to-Edge Repair (TEER). However, this procedure is difficult to perform, potentially resulting in suboptimal outcomes in challenging cases and if done by inexperienced clinicians.
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Venari Medical, an innovative medical device company based in Galway (Ireland), recently raised $5.3 million (€4.5 million) in seed equity funding to accelerate the development of its ground-breaking BioVena™ device for the treatment of chronic venous disease.
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Nordic digital therapeutics company, Sidekick Health, has closed a $20 million Series A led by pan-European VC Wellington Partners and healthcare focused VC Asabys Partners. Existing investors, Novator and Frumtak Ventures, also participated in the oversubscribed round.
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FineHeart, SA, a preclinical-stage medical device company developing an Implantable Cardiac Output Management System (ICOMS) to address the unmet need of patients suffering from severe heart failure has announced the successful completion of a 30-day preclinical study.
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So honored and beyond excited to be selected as the winner of the Lyfebulb–Orexo US, Inc. Innovation Award in Substance Use disorder! It is truly humbling to work on a product than can touch so many lives, from anxiety to depression to substance use, and we’re incredibly grateful for this opportunity to help more patients.
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We competed in the Focal Therapy Gauntlet (https://lnkd.in/gPjzZXY) with 9 other cutting edge treatments for #prostate cancer at FOCAL 2020. Avenda Health won 1st place and was selected as the “Most Promising Ablative Technology.”
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Hydrocephalus patients have an excess of cerebrospinal fluid in the brain, which needs to be drained away through a ventricular shunt. However, these shunts regularly fail, with potentially life-threatening results.
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Admetsys Corporation, a biomedical technology company specializing in critical care automation, announced today that it received European regulatory approval (CE Mark) for its flagship PrecisionOne™ automated glycemic control and continuous diagnostics system.
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Implanting absorbable vena cava filters in patients with increased risk of pulmonary embolism resulted in a 100% clinical success rate, according to the results of a first in-human study published Tuesday.
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Savonix, a global leader in digital cognitive health testing, and Fujitsu Connected Technologies Limited (FCNT), one of the major smartphone manufacturers in Japan, unveiled Savonix Mobile–a digital cognitive testing app–on the Raku-Raku Smartphone F-42A.
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COVID-19 might have temporarily closed dentist offices, but that hasn’t stopped iDentical from raising a healthy amount of cash for its innovative alternative to traditional dental implants.
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Vynca, a national leader in advance care planning solutions, today announced a relationship with Cerner Corporation (Nasdaq: CERN), a global health care technology company, to help individuals and their families, caregivers and clinicians navigate the complex advance care planning process to ensure future care preferences are honored.
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Israeli pain response monitoring company Medasense Biometrics Ltd. today announced that it has raised $18 million in a series C round from Spain’s Sabadell Asabys venture capital firm, Israeli family offices and returning investors Baxter Ventures, Olive Tree Ventures and LGL Capital.
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As remote work becomes the order of the day in the COVID-19 era, any tool that can bring training and education services to folks across industries is gaining a huge amount of investor interest — and that includes healthcare.
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RealLIST Startups 2020 honoree Avisi Technologies, maker of an ocular implant to treat glaucoma, is the recent recipient of a $1 million Small Business Innovation Research Phase II grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) — funds cofounder Rui Jing Jiang said will go toward bringing the startup’s research to life in preclinical work.
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Gauss, a computer vision startup, and Cellex, a biotech company that works on diagnostics, are announcing the first rapid COVID-19 test that can be fully performed by people at home without involving a laboratory.
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Conn Hastings, Medgadget: Please give us an overview of conventional EEG devices, and their limitations.
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7D Surgical has completed its largest financing round to date, according to a Sept. 15 announcement.
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Fibralign Corp., a Stanford spin-out and developer of therapeutic biomedical devices, today announced that it has received CE mark for its first product, the BioBridge® Collagen Matrix.
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PhotoniCare, Inc., a company dedicated to revolutionizing healthcare by providing physicians with better diagnostic tools, today announced an oversubscribed $5.2 million Series A financing led by i2E Management Company Inc., with co-investment from OSF Ventures, Sony Innovation Fund, and Dreampact Ventures.
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Miracor Medical SA, an Awans, Belgium-based provider of innovative solutions for the treatment of severe cardiac diseases, closed a €24M Series E round of financing.
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ODS Medical, Inc., a Montreal based medical technology company, is pleased to announce a new financing round to support product engineering and regulatory work.
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CoapTech Inc (Baltimore, MD), a leading medical device start-up pioneering the world’s first and only ultrasound-based feeding tube placement system, announced today the closing of a Series B investment of $7 million led by Palo Alto-based medical device venture capital firm Hunniwell Lake Ventures.
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The eHealth Award is an annual award to Nordic small businesses that have an innovative eHealth solution or product that has shown benefits for patients, citizens, healthcare professionals or healthcare organisations.
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LensGen, Inc., an ophthalmic medical device company and developer of Juvene®, a disruptive fluid-optic intraocular lens (IOL) for cataract and presbyopia treatment, announces the initial Closing of a $10 million of the $20 million Bridge Financing.
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Strados Labs has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF)Phase I Small Business Innovation Research grant for nearly $225,000 to conduct research on its wearable platform for remote respiratory monitoring.
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Sentien Biotechnologies, Inc., a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing novel approaches to cell therapy, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the company’s Investigational New Drug (IND) application for the evaluation of Sentien’s lead asset, SBI-101, for the treatment of severe COVID-19.
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Oncodisc, Inc. today announced that it is the recipient of a competitive National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant award.
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HD Medical, Inc. of Silicon Valley today announces that its flagship product, HD Steth, has received FDA clearance for all three product classification codes of DQD, DQC and DPS for Electronic Stethoscope, Phonocardiograph and Electrocardiograph combined into one device.
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Medical technology pioneer Forest Devices, Inc. (FDI) today announced a commitment to improve healthcare delivery for stroke patients in Alberta, forming a collaboration with Alberta Health Services (AHS) to evaluate and test technologies that can improve patient outcomes and health system performance by empowering emergency first responders to make informed decisions regarding care for stroke patients.
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Nordic digital therapeutics company SidekickHealth is partnering with pharma giant Pfizer to launch a digital therapeutics platform, in a deal thought to be worth more than $8 million.
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Medable Inc., the leading software provider for decentralized clinical trials, and Datavant, the leader in helping healthcare organizations safely connect their data, today announced a partnership that will help clinical trial teams easily integrate multiple data sources to accelerate decentralized trial design, recruitment and data management.
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The medtech industry isn’t immune from COVID-19 troubles, but exciting innovation continues. These 20 medical device startups have grabbed our attention.
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OrthoGrid specializes in live, intraoperative, AI-powered, radiographic assessment and alignment technologies for orthopedic surgery, with applications for hip arthroplasty, hip preservation, and trauma surgery.
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Chicago Business Journal — A Chicagoland medical company that makes a device to make it easier for doctors to see in surgery said it’s raised $15 in a Series B funding round.
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Augmedics’ xvision Spine System has been successfully used for the first time in a spinal fusion surgery in the United States. The system was used in a spinal surgery procedure by Johns Hopkins University surgeons.
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Cardiology-focused Investigators from University Hospital Galway complete a first-in-man clinical trial for a sensor that may help patients with heart failure stay out of the hospital.
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BioSpace — Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings, or LabCorp, is one of the two largest clinical diagnostic laboratory companies in the U.S. The company announced its Covance drug development business was launching COVID-19 Clinical Trial Connect in the U.S.
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MassDevice — Diabetes treatment tech company Bigfoot Biomedical announced today that it raised $55 million to close its Series C financing round.
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Fibralign Corp., a Stanford spin-out developer of therapeutic biomedical devices, has announced today that it has executed a long term distributor agreement with Terumo Corporation to market and distribute the BioBridge® Collagen Matrix in Japan for treating and preventing secondary lymphedema.
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Rhaeos, Inc. (Rhaeos), a private medical technology company focused on addressing a clinical unmet need in the care of patients with hydrocephalus, today announced its initial product, FlowSense™, a wireless, noninvasive flow sensor, has been granted Breakthrough Device Designation by the U.S.
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Arterys, a leading global medical imaging platform to deliver clinical AI products over the internet, just received its seventh USA FDA clearance and announced its latest round of funding — a $28 million Series C investment from a syndicate led by Benslie Investment Group and Temasek Holdings, with participation by Fosun, Revelation Partners, Emergent Medical Partners, and Varian Medical Systems.
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PercuSense has received a multiyear, $4.6M contract from two Department of Defense organizations to build a continuous monitoring biosensor technology that will work to detect exposure to toxic chemicals.
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Launched in 2016, Promaxo plans to revolutionize healthcare with its MR imaging and robotic platform. Promaxo’s MRI is designed to be used in a standard physician’s office, without the need for extensive safety procedures or a dedicated infrastructure for housing and maintaining the unit.
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Doctors are reporting a proliferation of dangerous blood clots in the lungs and other major organs of COVID-19 patients, raising the risk of stroke and other life-threatening complications.
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The company’s CLEWICU artificial intelligence software ingests a large range of patient data by linking to electronic medical records, connected medical devices and vital sign monitors, with no need for additional data entry by ICU staff.
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Bardy Diagnostics, Inc., (“BardyDx”), a leading provider of ambulatory cardiac monitoring technologies and custom data solutions, announced today it received CE mark certification for the 14-Day version of the Carnation Ambulatory Monitor (“CAM”) patch, the industry’s only P-wave centric ambulatory cardiac patch monitor and arrhythmia detection device.
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Congestive heart failure treatment developer Alleviant Medical filed an SEC Form D to confirm the sale of $6.5 million in an equity offering.
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Abnova has established a comprehensive portfolio of fully integrated solutions to address the needs for responding to SARS-CoV-2, including a novel adjuvant that can further increase the effectiveness of their mRNA candidate.
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PyrAmes Inc. is proud to announce that it has been granted Breakthrough Device Designation (BDD) from the FDA for Boppli, our novel continuous, non-invasive blood pressure (cNIBP) monitoring system intended for use in neonatal critical care settings.
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Innovation was on full display this week at the sixth annual Texas A&M New Ventures Competition (TNVC) hosted by the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES). Due to safety concerns amid the COVID-19 pandemic, organizers shifted the event to a virtual platform.
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MassDevice — Day Zero Diagnostics announced that it received an award of up to $6.2 million in non-dilutive funding from Combating Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria Biopharmaceutical Accelerator (CARB-X).
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(TechOhio) – Genetesis Inc, a medical technology company that has developed non-invasive, biomagnetic CardioFluxTM imaging, today announced several important updates.
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As states in the U.S. move past the initial push for tests to identify active COVID-19 infections, antibody tests are ramping up quickly to aid in disease surveillance and return-to-work screenings.
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Louisville-based Liberate Medical LLC received an emergency use authorization from the Food and Drug Administration to market its core product, VentFree, during the coronavirus crisis, Louisville Business First reports.
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(CrunchBase News) — Palo Alto, California startup Medable Inc. raised $25 million in funding led by GSR Ventures, to accelerate clinical drug development with digital technology.
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(Mass Device) — Surgical oncology device developer Onkos Surgical filed an SEC Form D to confirm the sale of nearly $7.6 million in equity.
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Baxter International Inc. (NYSE:BAX), a leading global medical products company, today reported results for the first quarter of 2020.
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(Mass Device) — Extracardiac temporary pacing technology developer AtaCor Medical announced today that it completed a $25 million Series B financing round.
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TDK Corporation (TSE:6762) announces that subsidiary TDK Ventures Inc. adds to its growing portfolio of companies with an investment in Genetesis, a world leader in non-invasive biomagnetic imaging.
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Medable Inc. today announced a multi-company research framework to accelerate development of diagnostics and treatments for COVID-19, providing individuals fast access to participate in leading-edge research for diagnostics, health monitoring and interventional clinical trials.
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Dr. Steven Tropello is bringing experience and a network developed while building local startup CoapTech.
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Gauss, a leading developer of digital decision-support tools for the medical frontlines, in partnership with Evive, the leader in enterprise communications and benefits engagement, has today announced the nationwide release of Apollo, a free Apple iOS app and WebApp, to help increase safety and efficiency of drive-through COVID-19 screening and testing for patients and health workers.
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(The Jerusalem Post) — To say that these times are challenging would be a laughable understatement. This coronavirus pandemic is quickly becoming one of the most challenging times humanity has ever known. There are the obvious health tragedies of families being ripped apart.
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Bardy Diagnostics has announced that its Carnation Ambulatory Monitor (CAM) Patch has been chosen for use in protocols to measure QT Segments in COVID-19 patients who have been prescribed hydroxychloroquine (HCQ).
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SilverCloud Health, a Boston, MA-based digital mental health platform, raised $16m in Series B funding.
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Tests designed to detect both active and past infections in less than 15 minutes, using handheld Nanomix eLab Analyzer
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Spire Health and PCSI to Offer Innovative Home Monitoring Capabilities to Limit Patient Exposure and Identify Patients in Need of Extra Care
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OrthoPediatrics Corp. (“OrthoPediatrics” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq:KIDS), a company focused exclusively on advancing the field of pediatric orthopedics, is pleased to announce that it has acquired ApiFix Ltd.
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NeuroNews — Ron Solar (ThermopeutiX, San Diego, USA) and colleagues report in EuroIntervention that the TwinFlo catheter (ThermopeutiX), in pigs, was associated with rapid, selective, deep cerebral hypothermia.
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Bardy Diagnostics, Inc., (“BardyDx”), a leading provider of ambulatory cardiac monitoring technologies and custom data solutions, announced today that its Carnation Ambulatory Monitor (“CAM™”) Patch has been chosen for use in protocols to measure QT Segments in COVID-19 patients who have been prescribed Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ).
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CroíValve has announced the successful first human use of its Duo Tricuspid Coaptation Valve technology for tricuspid repair. The company says the procedure was performed by an experienced heart team in St James’ University Hospital (Dublin, Ireland).
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CroíValve has announced the successful first human use of its Duo Tricuspid Coaptation Valve technology for tricuspid repair. The company says the procedure was performed by an experienced heart team in St James’ University Hospital (Dublin, Ireland).
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Spry Health, a leader in health management technologies and remote patient monitoring, today announced the launch of Loop Signal, a new clinician-led monitoring service utilizing the company’s proprietary FDA-cleared (Class II) solution, the Loop System, to reduce avoidable hospital visits and to improve at home monitoring of patients confirmed, suspected, or at risk for COVID-19.
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Pristine Surgical LLC, makers of the first fully-integrated, single-use visualization platform for rigid endoscopic surgical and diagnostic procedures, announced today that it completed its third round of investment capital raising.
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Zeto, Inc., a privately held medical technology company that is transforming the Electroencephalography (EEG) experience for healthcare, today announced that it has raised $7.3 million in Series A financing led by Seraph Group and joined by Aphelion Capital, SV Tech Ventures and Shangbay Capital.
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CB Insights today named Subtle Medical to the fourth annual AI 100 ranking, showcasing the 100 most promising private artificial intelligence companies in the world.
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Abreos Biosciences has been awarded funding for phase two of the “Personalized precision dosing of anti-TNF biological therapies” project by, among others, the National Institute of Health’s (NIH).
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MedGadget — Strokes affect nearly 800,000 Americans per year. One of the most important prognostic factors is the time from symptom onset to treatment.
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Digital health and medical technology firm Endotronix has recruited the first two patients in the PROACTIVE-HF pivotal trial of the Cordella pulmonary artery (PA) pressure sensor system.
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Digital health and medical technology firm Endotronix has recruited the first two patients in the PROACTIVE-HF pivotal trial of the Cordella pulmonary artery (PA) pressure sensor system.
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2Morrow, Inc., a leader in pioneering evidence-based digital health solutions, is offering two digital nicotine addiction programs on Walmart.com including a smoking cessation program for all age groups and a vaping cessation program for teens and young adults.
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Becker’sSpineReview — Johnson & Johnson plans to distribute at least 150 virtual reality headsets to U.S. surgeons through a partnership with startup Osso VR, two executives from Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices Companies told MedCity News.
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MobiHealthNews — CloudCath, the maker of a remote monitoring platform for catheter-based treatments, has closed a $12 million Series A financing round.
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CloudCath, the maker of a remote monitoring platform for catheter-based treatments, has closed a $12 million Series A financing round. Capital Integral headlined the raise, which also saw investments from FundRx, The Capital Partnership, Coconut Tree Investments, Stanford University’s StartX Fund and other unnamed strategic and individual investors.
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The following was shared by Justin Barad, CEO, Osso VR: I frequently get asked if using virtual reality for surgical training actually works. Well, I’m unbelievably excited to announce that UCLA Health ‘s study showing Osso VR boosting surgical performance by 230% has been published this month in the Journal of Surgical Education!
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Onkos Surgical® is pleased to announce the launch of GenVie™ Magnesium Bone Scaffold, a novel biologic technology that further expands Onkos’ reach in complex limb salvage procedures.
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The campaign, sponsored by the World Health Organization as part of its polio eradication efforts, vaccinated 500,000 children, aged 4 – 59 months, over a one-week period in early 2019.
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CathWorks has received Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) approval of The CathWorks FFRangio System, a non-invasive diagnostic technology that is used at the time of a routine angiography.
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A 90-second chest scan could be a game-changer for triaging patients who present to the emergency department with undiagnosed chest pain, according to research out of Detroit.
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“We are pleased to offer GammaTile Therapy to patients who are newly diagnosed with malignant brain tumors, in addition to patients with recurrent brain tumors,”
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Chronic venous disease (CVD) affects one in four adults and covers a range of conditions from enlarged varicose veins to distressing and uncomfortable open sores known as leg ulcers.
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Bardy Diagnostics, Inc., (“BardyDx”), a leading provider of ambulatory cardiac monitoring technologies and custom data solutions, announced today the commercial launch of the 14-Day version of the Carnation Ambulatory Monitor (“CAM™”), the industry’s only P-wave centric™ ambulatory cardiac patch monitor and arrhythmia detection device, following recent clearance by the FDA.
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SoundBite Medical Solutions Inc. (SBMS) today announces it has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance for the SoundBite™ Crossing System, a unique active wire technology for use in the treatment of peripheral chronic total occlusions (CTOs).
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Onkos Surgical, Inc. a leader in the field of musculoskeletal oncology and personalized orthopaedics announced today a multi-year agreement with Integrum AB (INTEG B: Nasdaq First North exchange).
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Bigfoot Biomedical, a diabetes startup looking to automate insulin delivery via a connected insulin pen, has kicked off its Series C round with an initial tranche of $45 million.
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PhotoniCare received FDA 510(k) clearance for its hand-held, noninvasive imaging scope that allows physicians to check for fluids deep behind the eardrum—one of the main signs of childhood ear infections.
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NeuroTronik, a healthcare startup out of Durham, has raised nearly $119,000 in debt, according to a SEC filing today.
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Augmedics announced today that it won FDA 510(k) clearance for and initiated the U.S. launch of its Xvision Spine augmented reality guidance system to be used in surgery.
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Vynca, the nation’s leading advance care planning technology solution and PatientPing, the nation’s leading care collaboration platform, today announced a partnership to surface real-time advance care planning information to providers across the care continuum.
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The modern war-fighter faces increasing cognitive demands, exponentially more information, and a greater need for mental resilience than ever before. Sana, a device that uses audiovisual neuromodulation to produce a deep state of relaxation and optimize recovery, was chosen as the most promising technology to help address this growing need.
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SilverCloud Health, one of the leading digital mental health platforms, today announced that Express Scripts, the largest independent manager of pharmacy benefits in the United States, will include SilverCloud’s evidenced-based digital mental health platform on its new digital health formulary in 2020.
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The CathWorks FFRangio System is also commercially available in the United States and Europe. It is non-invasive and performed intra-procedurally during coronary angiography without adding additional clinical risk or per procedure costs.
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Dr. Iwuchukwu and the Ochsner Clinical Foundation are the first to clinically evaluate the new version of the Lucid Robotic System. The first generation of the Lucid Robotic System was cleared by the U.S.
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A Sudbury startup medical device company is about six months away from commercializing its product after winning a prestigious award in Boston this fall.
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Empirical Spine announced that it completed enrollment in the investigational arm of its U.S. investigative device exemption trial studying its LimiFlex therapy for patients suffering from degenerative spondylolisthesis with lumbar spinal stenosis.
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Arterys, the San Francisco–based pioneering AI startup known for its internet platform for medical imaging, will debut its open innovation platform, the Arterys Marketplace, at RSNA 2019.
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GE Healthcare (NYSE:GE) appears to be taking the “throw it against the wall and see what sticks” approach when it comes to medtech innovation.
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ApiFix Ltd., a leading motion-preservation scoliosis correction company, today announced that it has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) via a Humanitarian Device Exemption (HDE) to market the Minimally Invasive Deformity Correction (MID-C) system for the treatment of progressive adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS).
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Illinois Ventures portfolio company PhotoniCare won first place and $25,000 at the 7th Annual Insight Product Development 2019 HealthTECH Startup Competition.
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The collaborative digital study is intended to prospectively monitor participant response to statin medications via an app, and notify clinicians and patients when the patient should stop or start their medication based on presenting symptoms collected via electronic patient-reported outcomes (ePROs).
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Dell Seton Medical Center’s John Uecker performs about 350 laparoscopic surgeries a year and was frustrated by constantly having to stop surgery to clean the camera lens.
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Pittsburgh-based Highmark Health, the nation’s second-largest integrated healthcare network based on revenue, is testing a virtual cardiac rehabilitation solution for delivering cardiac rehab remotely to patients with heart disease.
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Osso VR has been awarded the US Air Force Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract. The first phase of the project includes a feasibility study to determine VR surgical training’s benefits and application within the Air Force.
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Endotronix’ Cordella heart failure system is intended to help patients suffering from chronic heart failure to stay out of the hospital
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A half dozen digital health startups went head to head this weekend in a pitch contest hosted by the American Heart Association
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Montreal, Quebec (November 14, 2019) Emovi, Inc., announced today the signing of a multi-year agreement with Kansas City Chiefs offensive guard Laurent Duvernay-Tardif, MDCM, to support the knowledge transfer to health care professionals and patients regarding genealogy with the KneeKG system, a new knee evaluation modality.
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Proximo Medical, LLC today announced a partnership with PEDRA™ Technology, a Singapore based medical device innovator focused on the treatment of peripheral artery disease (PAD), for marketing and commercialization of its perfusion monitoring technology.
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MedAware Systems announced today that it has been named a top start up by The Tech Tribune. Companies were evaluated based on four criteria: Revenue potential, Leadership team, Brand/product traction, and Competitive landscape.
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Industry Excellence Awards were announced today at the AusBiotech 2019 national conference in Melbourne. The Awards recognise innovative companies and individuals leading the way in Australia’s world-class biotechnology, medical technology and healthcare sectors.
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A Louisville area medical device company has received clearance to sell its core product on the open market.
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Bardy Diagnostics, Inc., (“BardyDx”), a leading provider of ambulatory cardiac monitoring technologies and custom data solutions, announced that it was selected as winner of the “Remote Monitoring in Arrhythmias”
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The treatment of mental health conditions appears to have received a boost with a recently announced research collaboration between digital mental health company SilverCloud Health and Microsoft Research. The partnership was designed to further step up the former’s online offering with artificial intelligence.
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The University of California San Francisco’s Health Hub, an innovation and startup studio, announced on Oct. 11 the winners of its inaugural Digital Health Awards.
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Nanowear was excitedly (and unexpectedly) awarded Best Cardiovascular Digital Diagnostic at the 1st Annual UCSF Digital Health Awards (Nanowear award and acceptance speech here ) This inaugural event is not a pitch competition, but rather a 4-month-evaluation of over 500 companies by 250+ industry judges (providers, payers, VCs, researchers, etc), who selected finalists and awardees in 13 different categories across Digital Health.
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Subtle Medical, a healthcare technology company focused on improving the quality, efficiency, and accessibility of medical imaging, announced today 510(k) clearance from the U.S.
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Endotronix raised another $25 million to conduct late-stage trials of an implantable device to help doctors better monitor cardiac patients and detect problems before they lead to heart failure.
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The Washington State Department of Health is announcing a new smartphone app to help teens and young adults quit vaping. Developed collaboratively with 2Morrow Inc., the app is available for free to Washingtonians at doh.wa.gov/quit and is accessible via smartphone, tablet, laptop and desktop computer.
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Six winners were named in a pitch competition for medical devices designed to improve care in the neonatal intensive care unit at the seventh annual Pediatric Device Innovation Symposium, hosted by Washington, D.C.-based Children’s National Hospital.
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3D printing company 3D Systems has just announced 510(k) clearance from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for their VSP Orthopaedics solution. This development will further increase solutions offered in their VSP approach for orthopaedics, which has already played a role in the treatment of over 120,000 patients—over the past 25 years.
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The Johnson & Johnson Institute said that training surgeons using Oculus virtual reality headsets is paying off in big ways, and it hopes that such training will be available worldwide to all surgeons in the future.
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Emovi, Inc. announced today they have received the support of the Quebec government with financial assistance of $4.8 million bringing their total funding for 2019 over $20 million.
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Facebook is acquiring the maker of an electronic wristband that it says will allow people to share photos on its social network, click a button on their computer’s mouse, and perform other computing tasks simply by thinking about it.
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Access Vascular, Inc. has been awarded a group purchasing agreement for a Breakthrough Technology contract with Premier. Effective September 1, the new agreement allows Premier members, at their discretion, to take advantage of special pricing and terms pre-negotiated by Premier for the HydroPICC™ peripherally inserted central catheter which is indicated for reduced thrombus accumulation.
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Nanowear, a New York-based connected care and companion diagnostic platform built on FDA-cleared nanotechnology, is delivering a new standard for remote patient monitoring.
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Tasso was announced the winner of DPharm Idol Disrupt at the 9th annual DPharm: Disrupting Innovations to Advance Clinical Trials Conference. Tasso has a service that provides patient centric blood-sampling kits for use by participants in clinical trials.
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A Houston company is changing the game when it comes to early bleed detection, and now the company can provide its life-saving service to the United States.
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Subtle Medical, a privately-held healthcare technology company focused on improving the quality, efficiency, and safety of medical imaging, announced that it received a Fast-Track Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant valued up to $1.6 million, contingent on deliverables, from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
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CoapTech LLC (Baltimore, MD) and Fidmi Medical, Ltd. (Caesarea, Israel) announced today that they will be collaborating on bringing to market a set of next-generation products for the initial placement and long-term maintenance of gastrostomy tubes (G-tubes).
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Osso VR, a validated virtual reality (VR) surgical training platform, is partnering with Sawbones, the originator of “hands-on” orthopedic and medical workshop models worldwide.
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RFPi, a Greenville medical device company, has landed the first Phase II Small Business Technology Transfer grant ever awarded by the National Institutes of Health in Eastern North Carolina or with East Carolina University as the academic research partner.
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€4 million in additional financing has been secured by CroíValve, a high potential start-up (HPSU) supported by Enterprise Ireland developing a treatment for tricuspid regurgitation (TR).
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Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer today announced plans to launch a one-year pilot program with robotics company Catalia Health, maker of Mabu, a home robot that coaches patients on health and prescription drugs.
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Seattle-based Bardy Diagnostics, Inc., a provider of ambulatory cardiac monitoring technologies and custom data solutions, announces that it has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S.
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Houston Business Journal announced that Texas Halo Fund invested $150,000 in TMCx03 alumni company, Allotrope Medical! We’re lucky to have Allotrope’s CEO & FounderAlbert Huang, MD, as our Innovation Strategist.
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Redox, the leading cloud interoperability platform, announced today that the company has expanded further support for open standards including U.S. Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI) on the FHIR standard.
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Bone Solutions said today that it entered into a private label licensing agreement with Onkos Surgical for its OsteoCrete bone void-filling technology.
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Belgian devicemaker Miracor Medical received a breakthrough designation from the FDA for its treatment designed to limit the damage of a heart attack.
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New results support the feasibility of an entirely extracardiac pacing method in a heterogeneous patient population, using a minimally invasive, parasternal delivery approach, with adequate sensing and thresholds suited for temporary pacing.
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W. L. Gore & Associates (Gore), continues to contribute its more than 60 years of material science expertise to Silicon Valley’s startup community through its Santa Clara based Innovation Center.
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Rapid advances in the development of medical devices in the 21st century are contributing to healthier lives, but bring with them a new challenge: teaching clinicians how to use these often-complicated technologies.
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Patientory Inc., a global population healthcare solution company, is the newest member of Oregon Enterprise Blockchain Venture Studio, a program designed to support startups that drive blockchain innovation and solve critical business challenges.
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Heart failure detection startup Respirix has reported raising $1.3 million, according to a securities filing.
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Medable Inc., the leading provider of digitally enabled and data-driven clinical trials, will join the American Heart Association’s Center for Health Technology & Innovation (the Center) Innovators Network.
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Promaxo, the pioneer in the development of in-office MRI, announced today that it has closed $8M round of financing from a group of super angels and strategic investors.
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Virtual reality surgical training solution Osso VR is already impacting reality. A just-released study conducted by UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine shows that the surgical performance of Osso VR users “improved by 230% and their speed was 20% faster,”
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GNA Biosolutions GmbH, a molecular diagnostics company based in Germany, announced today that it has completed a $13.5M round of financing.
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Bigfoot Biomedical, Inc., and Allegheny Health Network (AHN) – a Highmark Health company – announced today a collaboration to further advance Bigfoot Biomedical’s first-in-kind data-driven solutions for optimizing the dosing and delivery of insulin for people with diabetes.
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Medasense for pain management and Vectorious for heart-failure monitoring were among 50 companies selected from a field of 800 applicants.
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Nanowear, the leading nanotechnology-based connected-care and remote monitoring platform, today announced the clinical launch of NanoSENSE, a Heart Failure Management and Alert Diagnostic Validation Study.
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Endotronix, Inc., a digital health and medical technology company dedicated to advancing the treatment of heart failure, today announced enrollment of the first patient in its prospective, multi-center, SIRONA II trial, in Europe.
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A non-radiation-based surgical navigation system for minimally invasive surgery, IOPS leverages anatomical mapping algorithms and electromagnetic tracking technology to provide three-dimensional color visualization and guidance in real time during endovascular procedures.
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KneeKG is the first device to enable doctors to accurately assess patients’ knees in 3D while the patient is moving and weight-bearing. In contrast to static information from x-ray and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), KneeKG quickly identifies the functional causes linked to knee pain, allowing doctors to better target treatments instead of the current process of elimination method, revolutionizing current knee assessment.
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Day Zero Diagnostics (DZD) said today it has received a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) award from the NIH’s National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Disease (NIAID) intended to fund the development of an algorithm to automate the determination of infection relatedness in suspected hospital-acquired infection (HAI) outbreaks.
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AblaCare, a medical device company dedicated to transforming women’s health and fertility care, announced today that it has raised €10 million in Series A financing from Sofinnova Partners. The company also announced the appointment of seasoned medical device executive Jodie Fam as CEO.
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Amit Vohra was conferred with the “Top 100 Leaders in Health Care” award for his significant contributions towards the health care sector at IFAH 2019, held at Caesars Palace, Vegas on June 18-20, 2019.
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Spinal Singularity announced today that the company was awarded over $3.6 million by the U.S. Army Medical Research and Material Command (USAMRMC), Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP), during FY18 for the Spinal Cord Injury Research Program (SCIRP).
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An upcoming episode of the award-winning program “Information Matrix” hosted by successful actor and philanthropist Laurence Fishburne, will feature new content on the use of AI-Machine Learning in the treatment of critically ill patients.
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#WTUS19 is no doubt a hotspot for leading #wearable #innovators. And among the best there is the top. The Winner of The Top North American Wearable 2019 goes to @ZetoEEG!! Congratulations for the advanced solution and a team of great efforts!! #IOTWTIWC
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We have exciting news today…..we received the CE mark for the Accuryn® Monitoring System!!! Looking forward to introducing our technology to Europe. #medicaldevices #medicaldevice #medicine #healthcare #cemarking #medtech #europeanunion
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A local health system’s venture capital fund has invested $1 million in an out-of-state startup.
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Bardy Diagnostics Inc. announced that its Carnation Ambulatory Monitor (CAM) was recognized with the “Best New Diagnostic Technology” award in the 2019 MedTech Breakthrough Awards Program.
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The National Evaluation System for health Technology Coordinating Center (NESTcc), an initiative of the Medical Device Innovation Consortium (MDIC), announced twelve new Test-Cases which leverage Real-World Evidence (RWE) and address key priorities for medical device stakeholders.
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Medable Inc. a leading provider of innovative clinical trial technologies that provide data-driven and digitally enabled clinical trials, and Synexus, the leading global network of dedicated research sites, announced today the launch of Medable Telemedicine, a solution that enables site sponsors to conduct secure, HIPAA-compliant video consultations with clinical study participants.
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Medical technology startup Promaxo is excited to announce that it has been selected as a 2019 TiE50 Winner in the prestigious TiE50 Awards Program. This awards competition, now in its tenth year, is a program of TiECon, the world’s largest conference for tech entrepreneurs.
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SFC Fluidics, Inc. (SFC) has partnered with two companies, Diabeloop SA and PercuSense, Inc., as part of the Industry Development and Discovery Partnership that was awarded to SFC Fluidics in 2018 by JDRF.
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Study using novel continuous ambulatory respiratory sensors to assess adherence among COPD patients and identify digital biomarkers preceding COPD exacerbations
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Now that electrocardiogram (ECG) monitors have become comfortably wearable for adults, enabling more frequent heart monitoring than was possible outside of medical settings, researchers are preparing to take the technology to the next level.
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PhotoniCare Inc., a medical device company headquartered in Champaign, Illinois, announces successful initiation of a multi-site registered clinical study to evaluate the imaging capabilities and image analysis performance of the PhotoniCare TOMi Scope.
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Neural Analytics Inc., a medical robotics company developing and commercializing technologies to measure and track brain health, has announced the first site initiation and first subjects enrolled into the CODEX Study, a prospective, single arm multi-center safety and technical feasibility study utilizing an investigational iteration of the Lucid Robotic System (Lucid M1 Transcranial Doppler Ultrasound System and NeuralBot System), at the Ochsner Clinical Foundation in New Orleans, La.“There is a growing interest in the diagnostic potential of measuring the dynamic changes of cerebral blood flow in different neurological conditions.
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Harvard Business School’s Klarman Hall was host to the 22nd annual New Venture Competition. Presenting awards at the event were Jodi Gernon, the Director of the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship; Matt Segneri, the Director of the Social Enterprise Initiative; and Mary-Helen Black, the Director of HBS Alumni Clubs & Associations.
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The Chicago-based startup’s tool, which is focused on boosting communication and coordination between all members of the surgical team, aims to reduce errors and improve OR efficiency.
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A few years ago, a doctor prescribed Singulair, a standard asthma medication, to a 9-year-old boy. At least that’s what the doctor thought he prescribed.
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The FDA is looking into a device and revolutionary pee test that could help stave the leading cause of maternal and fetal deaths.
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Investors have forked over $33 million in a new round of funding for Redox, hoping that the company can execute on its bid to serve as the link between healthcare providers and the technology companies bringing new digital services to market.
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Medable Inc. a leading provider of the end-to-end platform for digitally enabled and data-driven clinical trials, today announced it has been awarded two Fast-Track Small Business Innovation (SBIR) grants from the National Cancer Institute (NCI).
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Innoblative Designs, Inc. (Innoblative), a private medical device company committed to developing next generation, advanced-energy surgical solutions, announced it received U.S.
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SafeHeal, a leading innovator in the field of digestive surgery, announces today that its unique Colovac bypass sheath has received the CE-mark.
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A UK patient has become the first in the world to be treated using a new clot-removing device.
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MobileODT’s CDS Algorithm Shows Impressive Results in First Real-Time Application of AVE for Cervical Cancer Screening
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The Loop System, a continuous remote monitor developed by Palo Alto-based startup Spry Health, received 510(k) clearance from the FDA last Friday, according to an update to the agency’s databasethat was confirmed by the company.
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Early-stage medical devices company CroíValve has raised €3.2 million oversubscribed seed financing round.
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Successful entrepreneurs have vision. They are driven by passion and possibilities. It is a privilege to watch them in action. A case in point is Dr. Ryan Dennis, CEO of Linear Health Sciences, a medical device company whose safety valve technology will change the way patients are connected to their treatments.
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Abreos Biosciences, a San Diego-based biotech company and leader in precision dosing of biological therapeutics, is pleased to announce a research collaboration with the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) to develop several methods to measure the drug concentration of biologic drugs based on the Veritope™ platform.
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(Mason, OH March 22, 2019 8 am) Genetesis, a medical technology company focused on using biomagnetic imaging to enable rapid, noninvasive and accurate chest pain triage, has received FDA 510(k) clearance for its cardiac imaging platform.
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Vixiar Medical, Inc., a Baltimore, Maryland-based company dedicated to the development of non-invasive devices and systems for monitoring cardiopulmonary diseases has raised $1.5 million from new and existing investors.
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Rayfield Byrd knows when it’s time to wake up every morning. The 68-year-old Oakland, Cal., resident hears a voice from the living room offering a cheery good morning. Except Byrd lives alone.
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Conavi Medical Inc. is pleased to announce that it has received a Health Canada Medical Device License for the Novasight Hybrid System. This patented technology is the only clinical system that enables simultaneous imaging of coronary arteries with both intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) and optical coherence tomography (OCT), and was invented at Sunnybrook Research Institute.
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After successful retail launches with Apple and clearance from national health insurers, Spire Health’s wearable medical device is poised to impact clinical care across a variety of applications.
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Osso VR, a validated virtual reality (VR) surgical training platform, has announced a first-of-its-kind VR training module for Smith & Nephew’s NAVIOTM Surgical System. The system is being demonstrated at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) 2019 Annual Meeting March 12–16.
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A research team led by Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has received a five-year, $3.8 million grant to evaluate the use of smartphones in treating psychiatric problems that are common among college students.
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L’Oréal today announced a partnership between its Technology Incubator and Silicon Valley-based uBiome, the leader in microbial genomics, to continue its longtime research into skin microbiome—the trillions of bacteria that live on, and provide an important barrier to, your skin.
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Tasso, a Seattle-based startup that is developing an at-home blood sample collection device, announced Tuesday it has raised $6.1 million from investors. The new money will support its effort to launch sales of the device, Tasso OnDemand, in the coming months, and to add staff, Tasso says.
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Saranas Inc., a medical device company with innovative technology for real-time detection and monitoring of internal bleeding during endovascular procedures, today announced that it has been granted de novo classification by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the Early Bird Bleed Monitoring System.
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Emovi announced today its partnership with TVM Capital Life Science and co-investors StandUp Ventures and Desjardins Capital to support its global commercial activities. This 15M$ Series C investment is combined with other capital for a total of 20M$.
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PhotoniCare, Inc., a medical device company headquartered in Champaign, Illinois, has signed an exclusive distribution agreement with Adachi Co., LTD, (Osaka, Japan) to commercialize PhotoniCare’s TOMi™ Scope device throughout Japan.
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Minimally invasive surgery promised faster recoveries, less pain, less ‘collateral’ damage to healthy parts of the body and fewer complications, thus reducing costs and improving outcomes.
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Ten high-tech Kentucky companies will receive $2.18 million in state matching funds to promote growth and job creation in high-paying research and technological fields, from disease research to water treatment.
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One-third of hospitalized sepsis patients die, according to research published in 2017 in JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association.
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Redox today announced that it is integrating with Microsoft Teams to enable secure, bidirectional data exchange with electronic health record (EHR) software at provider organizations using the FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) standard.
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The CathWorks FFRangio System quickly and precisely delivers the objective FFR guidance needed to optimize PCI therapy decisions. FFRangio is derived from routine X-Rays acquired during a diagnostic angiogram procedure, is non-invasive and performed intra-procedurally during coronary angiography, eliminating additional clinical risk, time and cost associated with invasive FFR.
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Osso VR Awarded More Than $200,000 from the National Science Foundation to Advance its Surgical Skill Assessment Platform
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CathWorks announced the completion of a $30 million Series C financing round led by Deerfield Management.
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“GT MedTech’s mission is in line with our investment goal of supporting innovative technologies that address unmet needs in vital disease areas,” said Radu Cautis, partner and managing director of MedTech Venture Partners.
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has awarded Breakthrough Therapy Designation to the VentFree muscle stimulator. The device is being developed to prevent atrophy in breathing muscles and reduce the number of days of ventilator support in adult patients who need mechanical ventilation.
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Augmedics’ surgical “X-ray specs” are really an augmented-reality headset that superimposes CT scans and other images over a patient’s body, helping surgeons map an operation without looking away.
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A new device reveals real-time blood flow and perfusion in vascular structures and critical tissues during surgery.
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A novel colposcope uses an automated visual evaluation (AVE) algorithm to detect cervical cancer from even a single image.
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MobileODT is rolling out its Enhanced Visual Assessment (EVA) System in what it’s calling the first large-scale pilot program to examine the use of augmented intelligence (AI) for cervical cancer screenings.
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A Greenville company has received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to begin marketing a hi-tech medical imaging device it says has the potential to reduce surgical complications, the company announced this week.
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SafeHeal, an innovator in the field of digestive surgery, has concluded its first-in-human clinical study for its novel Colovac bypass sheath in patients undergoing colorectal surgery.
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A population-based longitudinal cohort of 9406 women ages 18–94 years in Guanacaste, Costa Rica was followed for 7 years (1993–2000), incorporating multiple cervical screening methods and histopathologic confirmation of precancers.
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MobileODT, developer of the Enhanced Visual Assessment (EVA) System, will partner with Genworks and Apollo Hospitals to deliver its FDA-cleared smart mobile colposcope. The project will perform the first large-scale pilot of Augmented Intelligence (AI) for use in the screening of cervical cancer.
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Vetex™ Medical Ltd. announced that the first patient has been treated in the VETEX (Venous Thrombus Extraction) Study, a first-in-man, multicenter study of the Vetex™ Thrombectomy Catheter.
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Surgical training technology company Osso VR launched its first pediatric orthopedic procedure module in partnership with the Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America.
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An Irish medical device’s company, AuriGen Medical has won the prestigious Global Innovation Award at the ICI conference in Tel Aviv, Israel. ICI is the premier International Conference for Innovations in Cardiovascular Systems.
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Advanced Medical Predictive Devices, Diagnostics, and Displays Inc. (AMP3D) announced today that it has partnered with Premier Inc., a leading healthcare improvement company, to bring AMP3D’s Continuous Monitoring of Event Trajectories (CoMET®) predictive analytics platform to Premier’s clinical surveillance portfolio.
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Lightpoint Medical has secured a £5 million round from backers including Envestors and Cambridge Capital Group. The startup, which develops intraoperative molecular imaging and sensing technology, plans to use the funds to boost commercial growth.
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The Nashville Technology Council has announced the finalists for the 10th Annual NTC Awards. The organization will next month name winners in 14 categories, which each have three finalists. They are:
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The North American Spine Society (NASS) 2018 event that took place in September seemed quite similar to the ones I’ve attended during previous years. The overwhelming focus (on the expo floor anyway) was on technologies and solutions involved in spinal fusion procedures.
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Linear Health Sciences today announced that it has entered into an exclusive distribution agreement with Alliance Medical, a leading distributor for emerging medical technologies, for the Orchid Safety Release Valve™, a patient safety device designed to help prevent intravenous (IV) catheter dislodgement.
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Neural Analytics yesterday reported raising nearly $10 million in for the robot-assisted brain ultrasound device it’s developing.
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Osso VR, a leading virtual reality surgical training technology company, announces today its first module for pediatric orthopedic procedures, launched in partnership with the Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America (POSNA).
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This is a ground-breaking time in medical technology, and nowhere are the breakthroughs more evident than at the MedTech Innovator Showcase & Accelerator event.
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Square 1 Bank, a division of Pacific Western Bank, today announced that it has provided a $5 million credit facility to new client Zenflow, a privately-held urologic medical device company. Proceeds from the facility will support short-term and long-term growth initiatives.
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French medical device company SafeHeal has reported positive results from a clinical study conducted for its Colovac bypass sheath in patients undergoing colorectal surgery.
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The healthcare industry should be using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to a far greater degree than at present, but progress has been painfully slow. The same factors that make the healthcare system so attractive to AI developers – fragmented or non-existent data repositories, outdated computer systemsand doctor shortages – are the same things that have stopped AI from providing the gains that should be created.
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VerteCore, a startup that has developed affordable, mobile decompression for instant spine relief, won Tuesday night the $500,000 grand prize at the Accelerate Michigan Innovation Competition, while GreenMark Biomedical Inc. and Shoptelligence took second and third prizes, respectively.
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There are many factors innovators in medtech share. They all seek to offer elegant and novel technologies. They often take advantage of smart, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning advances.
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Eximis Surgical, Inc. today announced it has secured $7.5 million in financing led by Questa Capital, with participation from Venture Investors. Eximis Surgical is developing a transformational surgical platform for the removal of large specimens through small laparoscopic incisions.
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Thank you to everyone who came out to #MTIF2018! Here are some highlights of the 2 day conference. Our LaunchPad SBDC People’s Choice Award winner went to Evoke Neuroscience, and Our LaunchPad SBDC #MTIF2018 Winner went to AtaCor Medical, Inc.! Hope to see you next year at #MTIF2019 on Oct. 28-29 in Newport Beach!
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After piloting the new technology at the University’s NICU, the University partnered with other hospitals throughout the country, expanding the project to nine NICUs nationwide with the help of funding from the National Institutes of Health and Medical Predictive Science Corporation.
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ConaviTM Medical Inc. is pleased to announce that Japan Lifeline has submitted an application for the regulatory approval of the Novasight HybridTM intravascular imaging system in Japan.
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Cardio AI(MR) Web-based image analysis solution leverages power of deep learning and cloud supercomputing for improved radiologist efficiency and rapid analysis of Cardiac MR images
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Hey Outcomes Rocket friends, thanks for tuning in to the podcast once again. As a leader in health care, you have big ideas great products, a story to tell, and are looking for ways to improve your reach and scale your business.
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An Israeli startup is working to integrate artificial intelligence and predictive analytics into the clinical workflow.
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Built on the belief that big ideas and the entrepreneurs behind them deserve to be celebrated, the award show will raise a glass to all rebels, visionaries, and game changers accelerating Middle Tennessee’s economy.
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A technology new to Pennsylvania that’s enhancing care for sexual assault victims launched in Clearfield County Wednesday.
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Beta User Survey Results Report The May 31, 2018 Inaugural Patientory Summit featured a VIP Event sponsored by Patientory, Inc. during which the Beta test began for version one of the Patientory DApp. Event highlights here: https://youtu.be/Ipt12OzMpLA
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Abreos Biosciences announced the U.S. launch of moNATor, a laboratory-developed test that can help physicians monitor the levels of Tysabri (natalizumab) in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS).
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Advanced catheter developer Spinal Singularity said yesterday it received a grant from the Triumph Foundation it plans to use to support upcoming clinical trials of its Connected Catheter, and said that it has added a number of new locations to its current trial of the device.
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Augmedics has begun a first-in-human clinical trial of its xvision-spine (XVS) augmented-reality surgical navigation system at Sheba Tel Hashomer Medical Center and Asaf Harofeh Medical Center, in Israel.
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symplr®, a leading provider of Software as a Service (SaaS) based healthcare compliance and credentialing solutions, and GreenLight Medical, a leading provider of hospital value analysis software for the new product introduction process, today announced a partnership creating an end-to-end vendor management solution for the healthcare industry.
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Mighty Oak Medical received FDA 510(k) clearance for its patient-specific, 3D-printed S2AI Guide for sacroiliac fixation in complex spinal reconstruction.
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PharmaJet and Mundipharma have inked an exclusive partnership to market and distribute PharmaJet’s Tropis and Stratis needle-free drug-delivery devices to more than 120 markets around the world.
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Three North Carolina companies joined the prestigious list of participants in the 2018 MedTech Innovator Accelerator and Showcase programs. The Los Angeles-based non-profit is a global competition and accelerator for medical device, digital health and diagnostic companies.
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With FDA clearance now in the bag, IsoRay Inc. is prepping for the inclusion of its cesium-131 seed-based brachytherapy option in the launch of GT Medical Technologies Inc.’s GammaTile solution for the treatment of recurrent brain tumors.
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There is currently a major push to streamline the acquisition process and to better engage and partner with private industry in an effort to place cutting-edge technology quickly into the hands of the Warfighter.
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IsoRay (NYSE:ISR) said today it won FDA 510(k) clearance for its GammaTile brachytherapy technology designed for treating recurrent brain tumors.
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Smart Health Innovation Lab https://smarthealthinnovationlab.com, a market adoption accelerator for healthcare technologies located in Pennsylvania, opened their first state-of-the-art facility to showcase the innovative technologies that the lab plans to market by establishing a 12 week certification program.
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Smart Health Innovation Lab https://smarthealthinnovationlab.com, a market adoption accelerator for healthcare technologies located in Pennsylvania, opened their first state-of-the-art facility to showcase the innovative technologies that the lab plans to market by establishing a 12 week certification program.
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MetaOptima Technology Inc. has raised US $6.5 million recently from Australian venture firms, Skip Capital and AirTree Ventures.
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AI software startup CoLabs acquired $4 million in seed-stage funding and unveiled its inaugural product, IntelAgree. Early investors in CoLabs include business leaders who supported the founders’ previous SaaS venture, eStaff365.
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Medical robotics company Neural Analytics Inc. announced that it received CE Mark for its NeuralBot System, a robotic assistance technology which automatically adjusts orientation and position of its ultrasound products under the guidance of a healthcare professional.
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Delighted to be awarded €50k to help further develop our novel technology. Thanks to @EITHealth for their ongoing support. #2018HeadstartFinal
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Winrock International, Arkansas Heart Hospital, the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and BioVentures today announced the six companies selected to participate in the 2018 Health InnovatAR healthcare accelerator program, which is supported in part through a grant from the Arkansas Economic Development Commission.
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Genetesis, a Mason startup that’s developing a medical imaging device that could benefit patients with heart problems, raised $7.5 million in a Series A round of funding from a group of investors that includes CincyTech and billionaire Mark Cuban of the TV show “Shark Tank.”
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Thanks to transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), many patients with heart valve disease have a new lease on life. That success is spilling over into mitral and tricuspid heart valve disease, which are both active areas of medical device innovation.
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Neural Analytics Inc., a medical device company based in Rancho Park, announced it has cleared a federal hurdle for a robotic system to assist with ultrasound in diagnosing brain trauma.
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Access Vascular has raised $1.9 million in a new round of equity financing, according to an SEC filing posted this week.
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It’s a way of life that IntuiTap Medical CEO and co-founder Jessica Traver, 27, has become accustomed to since starting her company two years ago, which is focused on providing a game-changing solution to a common, and often painful, procedure: the spinal tap.
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Trayt, a Redwood City, California-based data analytics company, has released a mobile application designed to help diagnose, track and treat patients with autism, ADHD and other neurodevelopmental brain disorders.
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Avenda Health Inc., a biomedical device company based in Santa Monica, has closed a funding round of $3.3 million, according to a securities filing released April 11.
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Johnson & Johnson today announced the acquisition of C-SATS, a Seattle startup that uses technology to facilitate performance reviews for surgeons.
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Alleviant Medical has raised $1.1 million in a new round of debt and options financing, according to an SEC filing posted this week.
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As opioid abuse continues to make impact in the US, more and more tech-driven answers to the drug crisis are springing up that aim to reduce patients’ reliance on prescription opioids.
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Access Vascular said today that its HydroPICC catheter has won 510(k) clearance from the FDA.
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SafeHeal, developer of the Colovac device, has enrolled the first five patients in its CE mark study. The Colovac device is a unique endoluminal bypass sheath placed in the colon following rectal resection, aimed at significantly improving the recovery of patients after colorectal surgery without the need for an ostomy.
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Under the terms of the agreement, Genexine will use both the PharmaJet Stratis® and Tropis® devices in their Phase 1 and IIa human clinical studies. The agreement also includes provision for potential expansion to include Phase III studies and commercialization.
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We’re excited to announce the three new startups joining Launchpad Studio, our 6-month mentorship program tailored to help applied-machine learning startups build great products using the most advanced tools and technologies available.
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Urology medical device maker Zenflow said today it closed a $31.4 million Series A round of financing to support the development of minimally invasive devices designed to treat obstructive urinary symptoms related to benign prostatic hyperplasia.
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(PR.com)– MedAware Systems, Inc. announced today it is launching the world’s most comprehensive database of evidence on Apheresis, available through its SOHInfo™ division.
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Linear Health Sciences today announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued the company’s first patent related to its flagship product, the Orchid Safety Release Valve™, a patient safety device designed to help prevent intravenous (IV) catheter dislodgement.
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Adhesys Medical, a surgical adhesive company, said it has received a CE mark for its Mar-Cutis Flix topical skin adhesive for surgical use.
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At the 2017 meeting of AdvaMed, the medical device industry’s advocacy organization, young start-up Day Zero Diagnostics was chosen as this year’s MedTech Innovator Global Competition winner.
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Nexeon MedSystems Inc., headquartered in Dallas, Texas, is a medical device company developing a neurostimulator technology platform for the treatment of disorders through the electrical stimulation of neural tissues.
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More than 700 startups from around the world participated in the Accenture HealthTech Innovation Challenge that culminated on January 8th at the Startup Health Festival in San Francisco—part of the 36th annual J.P.
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So excited to announce the close of our $1.6M round including investments from @thepinkceiling & @ionispharma! 2018 is off to a great start!
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2017 was a banner year for crowdfunding campaigns. Here are five of the most successful crowdfunding campaigns last year that you need to know about.
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Nanowear, the leader in cloth-based diagnostic monitoring nanosensor technology, today announced that it has entered into an exclusive, worldwide supply-chain partnership agreement with The Secant Group for scaled manufacturing and production of its medical-grade cloth-based nanosensor technology.
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Miracor Medical Systems said today it closed a $30.2 million (EU €25 million) round of funding as part of Series D financing round with funds slated to support further development and commercialization of its PiCSO impulse system, and announced it is moving its headquarters from Austria to Belgium.
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The OneRNA4Bladder project aims to save lives and halve the cost of care for bladder-cancer treatment. Bladder cancer is the most expensive cancer to treat due to expensive diagnostic procedures and ineffective drugs resulting in a recurrence rate of 70%.
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Medical care is no longer confined to the doctor’s office. Or even, sometimes, to an actual doctor. That iPhone in your pocket now has the capability to diagnose your cough, answer insurance questions, and get you pregnant…or at least help the process along.
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The Food and Drug Administration has approved Arterys’ web-based imaging analytics platform, which marries cloud-based supercomputing and artificial intelligence, for clinical use.
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Some medical technologies can require hundreds of uses before a surgeon becomes proficient with them. Typical surgeon training involves working with cadavers, but doing this only allows trainees one, maybe two, sessions’ worth of experience.
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Linear Health Sciences today announced additional investment funding of $1.538 million, bringing total company financing to nearly $3 million. Linear Health Sciences is the developer of the Orchid Safety Release Valve (SRV)™ and other safety solutions for medical tubing.
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For an octogenarian with arthritic knees, a voice-controlled light switch could ease the pain of having to stand and walk just to illuminate a room.
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We haven’t even come close to solving the problem of an aging population, so the tech sector is stepping in.
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AUM Cardiovascular has been named a gold winner in Best New Product of the Year – Healthcare in Best in Biz Awards, the only independent business awards program judged each year by prominent editors and reporters from top-tier publications in North America.
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San Francisco-based patient engagement startup Catalia Health has announced an additional $4 million in pre-Series A funding from Ion Pacific and other investors.
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Arterys Inc., a privately-held company leading the transition to cloud infrastructure and artificial intelligence in medical imaging, today announced the close of its $30M Series B financing round.
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Imagine how important every second is when you have a heart attack, or consider the implications of a world run entirely on renewable energy. If you thought Blockchain technology would only impact finance; think again.
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The Texas Medical Center, the largest medical complex in the world, today announced the TMC Venture Fund, a $25 million initiative designed to support technologies and early-stage companies to flourish in Houston’s health care ecosystem and further the TMC’s mission to advance health, education and research.
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Vyaire Medical, Inc., the healthcare industry’s dedicated “breathing company,” today announced it has acquired Revolutionary Medical Devices, Inc. (RMD), of Tucson, Ariz., a maker of innovative products for airway management, focused on significantly improving patient outcomes.
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The Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI) announced today that it has received funding from the Dutch Cancer Society (KWF Kankerbestrijding) to test whether a novel molecular imaging technology can guide prostate cancer surgery.
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Albert Huang, MD, has always been an inventor. Growing up, he would tinker with cars and motorcycles and rebuild old audio equipment, he says, and that desire to fix things is why he chose general surgery among all medical specialties.
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Augmedics, a developer of an augmented-reality (AR) surgical visualization system, has secured $8.3 million in Series A funding. Led by Davos, Switzerland-based AO Invest, which is fully funded by the non-profit AO Foundation, as well as Israeli Innovation Authority, Terra Venture Partners and other undisclosed investors.
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New Venture Challenge alum ExplORer Surgical, which makes software for surgical teams to use in the operating room, has raised $3 million, the company announced Tuesday.
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In June 2017, early-stage start-up Eximis Surgical LLC was the winner of a $25,000 award as the top company in the value category of the Medtech Innovator Competition.
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Tueo Health, a digital health start-up company that has developed a unique solution for monitoring and managing pediatric asthma, has closed $1.1 million in seed round funding. The seed financing was led by Launchpad Digital Health, with participation from Plug and Play, and other strategic angel investors.
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Vixiar Medical, Inc., an Annapolis, MD-based company dedicated to the development of non-invasive devices and systems for monitoring cardiopulmonary diseases, raised over $1.5m in seed financing.
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While most of the talk this summer has been about shark sightings and attacks along our beaches and Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps’s race against the great white shark on the Discovery channel, there are some entrepreneurs who are quietly preparing to go head to head with a different group of sharks in the upcoming season of ABC’s Shark Tank which is scheduled to return in the fall.
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Seven winners from the UK and Ireland were chosen to receive funding when EIT Health UK-Ireland held its HeadStart/Proof-of-Concept finals pitch competition on 19 July at Oxford University.
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Today, MobileODT announced it has raised an additional $6.825 million in a Series B fundraising round led by OrbiMed Advisors – a leading healthcare venture fund. Previous investors Tristel plc. also participated in the round. MobileODT has raised over $13 million to date.
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Spry Health, a Palo Alto, CA-based provider of remote patient monitoring solutions has raised $5.5 million in Series A funding led by Grove Ventures with participation from the Stanford-StartX Fund.
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Osso VR, a startup looking to disrupt the surgical device training space with virtual reality, has raised $2 million in seed funding in a round led by Signalfire, with participation from Anorak Ventures.
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Abreos Biosciences, a San Diego-based biotech company and a leader in the precision dosing of biological therapeutics, is pleased to announce that it has completed a new investment round. The funding came from existing investors as well as new investor TLP Investment Partners LLC and its affiliates.
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Atlanta-based cybersecurity startup Patientory raised $7.2 million in three days from 1,728 individual purchasers.
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Everybody has their favourite app, gadget or new technology that can make life easier, work more productive, and the future that much more exciting, and entrepreneurs are no different.
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A Houston-based medical device company took the top prize Thursday at the third annual Texas A&M New Ventures Competition.
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INBRACE (http://myinbrace.com), the most advanced technology ever used to straighten teeth and perfect a patient’s smile, was publicly displayed for the first time during the American Association of Orthodontists Conference in front of a capacity crowd at EvoNexus (http://evonexus.org) in San Diego, California.
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Catalia Health, which makes an AI-powered patient engagement robot called Mabu, has raised $2.5 million in a new round led by Khosla Ventures. Additional investments came from new investors NewGen Capital and Macnica Ventures and existing investors Q Venture Partners Limited, InnoLinks Ventures, Abstract by Flight.VC, DeNA and Lucky Capital.
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Madorra treats vaginal dryness without hormones for the 32 million women who are currently suffering in silence. The company offers a simple, non-invasive, easy-to-use device that empowers women suffering from vaginal dryness to improve their sexual wellness.
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NeuroTronik Limited and NeuroTronik, Inc. today announced closing on a $23.1 million Series B Preferred Stock Financing, tranched in line with project plan milestones.
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We are very excited to announce the great news that Adhesys Medical, our MedTech Innovator 2016 Execution Award Winner, has been acquired by The Grunenthal Group. You can read the details below from the press release announcing the acquisition. Congratulations to Alex Schueller and the team at Adhesys!
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Ensuring that patients adhere to a drug regimen is vitally important to help them manage their symptoms and long-term health prospects. In patients with chronic conditions, taking medication consistently is extremely important, as is monitoring their symptoms to adjust treatment.
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The prizes valued at $150,000 awarded to the company that won the 2014 MedTech Innovator competition were nothing to sneeze at; but just as important, if not more so, were the support and exposure the startup received as participants of MTI’s accelerator program.
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Medical analytics platform developer Intensix said today it raised $8.3 million in a Series A financing round with funds slated to boost sales and marketing in North America and to accelerate development of its predictive analytics platform.
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More than five hundred companies submitted their web-based products to our ninth annual SXSW Accelerator Pitch Event. Competition was tough this year, but the results are in!
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Researchers at Harvard Medical School have demonstrated a new technology can help reduce a widespread problem that harms some 1.5 million people every year – medication error.
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Catalia Health is leading the surge in social robotics, with Mabu, their patient care management system. Catalia Health likes to be seen primarily as a health company that utilizes robots, rather than a robotics company.
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Digital Health company SilverCloud Health, the leading provider of evidence-based online mental health and behavioral healthcare solutions, announced that it has raised $8.1 million in Series A funding.
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Two health sciences startup companies in Buffalo scored $50,000 investments from Launch NY on Thursday.
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Two Houston-based women have landed on the prestigious Forbes’ 30 under 30 list announced this week.
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Their organizations have helped millions, and their impact wraps around the globe. Leading 30 different social ventures, we are honoring 40 young people (including a few cofounder teams) this year who are all working tirelessly to creatively solve some of the world’s toughest problems.
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We have some exciting news to share: as of December 19, 2016 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved our EVA (Enhanced Visual Assessment) System for marketing and sale in the United States!
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iBreastExam earned top honors and $5,000 USD by demonstrating the exceptional impact, innovation, feasibility, and business sustainability of its idea to judges Kara Dennis, MBA, MA, vice president and managing director of mobile health at Medidata; Jean-Luc Neptune, MD, partner, executive director and accelerator leader at Blueprint Health; Margaret Griffin, MPH, senior manager of innovation research at HITLAB; and Stan Kachnowski, PhD, MPA, CSEP, Chair at HITLAB.
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Mighty Oak Medical (http://www.mightyoakmedical.com) announced today that its patient-specific, 3D printed FIREFLY® Pedicle Screw Navigation Guides have received a second FDA clearance extending compatibility to essentially all currently cleared pedicle screw systems.
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Boston-based startup accelerator MassChallenge awarded $100,000 prizes to three of the “highest-impact” companies from its 2016 class at a ceremony on Wednesday night.
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San Francisco-based uBiome, which makes a direct-to-consumer microbial genomic testing kit, has closed on a $22 million Series B funding round, led by 8VC with additional funding from Slow Ventures, Stanford’s StartX Fund and various angel investors.
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Lucid Ultrasound System Holds Potential to Allow More Patients to Benefit from Brain Blood Flow Monitoring
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Green Sun Medical, a Colorado-based startup company developing a transformative bracing technology for the treatment of adolescent scoliosis, was named by AdvaMed 2016: The MedTech Conference as one of four finalists in the annual MedTech Innovator global competition.
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Early-stage medical device startups are addressing important challenges in surgery, cardiology, and neurology, among other disciplines.
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Vizient, Inc. announces the finalists for its fourth annual Innovation Challenge, an event designed to illuminate some of the best new ideas in healthcare today.
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Designing a product is one thing, entrepreneur Cory Kidd says, and “manufacturing a good durable product, with a business around it, is something else.”
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Neural Analytics landed a $3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health for the diagnostic and monitoring technology it’s developing for traumatic brain injury and stroke, the company reported. The NIH’s Small Business Innovation Research program funded the grant.
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Like many people, Peter Havas lives far from his parents. But while the San Francisco entrepreneur misses his mother and father in Australia, he doesn’t worry about their health.
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UBiome is stepping up its R&D activities. The personal microbiome sequencing pioneer has lured ex-Genentech scientist Audrey Goddard away from Genomic Health ($GHDX) to head up the unit.
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When assessing the merits of online mental health solutions there are clear advantages in terms of the positive clinical outcomes they yield. However, we here at SilverCloud advocate that another significant aspect should be given consideration namely the user’s experience of their treatment.
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Fibralign Corporation announced that Stanford University has started enrollment in its investigator-led clinical study to evaluate the efficacy of a new surgical device for treating secondary lymphedema.
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Technology and healthcare are evolving, and that means innovative medical device companies and products are advancing the industry and creating opportunities for sales reps.
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i2E Inc. recently led a $1.25 million seed round investment in Linear Health Sciences, a Norman-based innovative medical technology startup.
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San Francisco-based Bloomlife has raised $4 million for its smartphone-connected pregnancy-tracking wearable, bringing the startup’s total funding to $6 million.
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A few years ago, a nine-year-old Israeli boy dropped dead from his bike. Why? Because of preventable medical error.
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The Texas Medical Center (TMC) Innovation Institute this week welcomes 11 startups selected from more than 100 applications to its accelerator program, TMCx, which for the first time is focusing exclusively on medical devices.
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Holly Rockweiler wants to make this clear from the start: Her medical device startup is not making a vibrator.
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IntuiTap Medical, a medical device company that grew from the inaugural class of TMC’s Biodesign program, is a nominee in Tech.Co‘s Startup of the Year competition.
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Pearland-based Adient Medical Inc. has raised nearly $1.5 million from area investors and doctors as it looks to bring its medical device to human clinical trials early next year, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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43North today shared exciting updates on the winning companies from its 2014 and 2015 competitions. The $5 million startup competition attracts entrepreneurs from around the world to compete for prizes that turn startups with high growth potential into funded enterprises in the Western New York region.
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On June 28, 2016, TiE-Boston introduced 14 companies who make up the second cohort for TiE ScaleUp.
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The Israel-U.S. Binational Industrial Research and Development (BIRD) Foundation recently approved $7.5 million in funding for nine new projects between American and Israeli companies. The projects also will receive private sector funding, boosting their total value to approximately $21.5 million.
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uBiome, the leading microbial genomics company, will double the number of academic researchers it will winning researchers, from the Yale School of Medicine and the University of Illinois at Chicago will therefore each receive up to $100,000 of uBiome microbiome testing kits and full laboratory analysis, fasttracking studies of the vaginal microbiome of women with unexplained infertility, and the gut microbiome of athletes.
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Lightpoint Medical, a clinical‐stage medical device company developing advanced imaging technologies for intraoperative cancer detection, announced today that the company has signed an exclusive global license agreement for a molecular imaging technology called Beta Emission Tomography, developed by Professor Harrison Barrett, Regents Professor of Radiology and Optical Science, with his student Yijun Ding and colleague Dr.
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But LIM isn’t working on a social app, or an Uber for X delivery service, or a bot. For the past five years LIM has been working on making the ultimate wearable: a prosthetic socket that is soft, adjustable, and modular.
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SafeHeal won the most promising and innovative investor conference medtech startup at the Conference in Lyon, France. 28 startup companies were selected to present at the BIOVISION Investor Conference.
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MiNDERA has been selected as one of the emerging companies that will present at the BIOVISION Investor Conference to be held on April 13 and 14 2016 in Lyon, France.
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Competition could be rising for Medtronic’s ($MDT) Pillcam, an endoscopic imaging capsule as Californiabased Rock West Medical Devices raised $1.25 million in equity to advance its MoPill, an ingestible device that measures the motilityspontaneous and active movementof the gastrointestinal tract.
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Philadelphia-based accelerator Dreamit Health has announced the 15 health startups that will join its next accelerator class. As in previous years, the accelerator is sponsored by Penn Medicine and Independence Blue Cross, but this year, Dreamit Health also added medical device company Zimmer Biomet as a partner.
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The mHealth Israel Conference, the largest Digital Health conference in Israel, announced today that the winners of its startup competition, MedAware and 6over6, will receive free booths and Tier 1 BizDev meetings at Medical World Americas.
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As consumers and businesses begin to focus on what form the next generation of computing may take beyond our current era of the smartphone, startups developing at the cutting edge of these concepts are attracting some major attention from investors.
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Late Wednesday, Dy stood before Richard Branson for seven minutes and pitched his startup Bloom Technologies in the final round of the Extreme Tech Challenge contest.
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Necker Island, British Virgin Islands — A company dedicated to saving the lives of pre-term babies captured the attention of Sir Richard Branson and other judges at the Extreme Tech Challenge (XTC) finals today, as Bloom Technologies took first place out of over 2,000 entrants.
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A Chicago-based company has raised $3.1 million to fund a clinical trial for its high-resolution imaging probes for cancer surgeons.
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Neural Analytics Inc., a medical device company focused on developing devices and services to measure, diagnose and track brain health, announced today that it has secured $10 MM in Series A financing.
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Spinal Singularity, the startup founded by Derek Herrera, recent graduate of UCLA’s Anderson School of Management MBA program, won $150,000 in seed funding to develop and market a smart catheter that could vastly improve the lives of people with paralysis and others who suffer from neurogenic bladder dysfunction.
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Lightpoint Medical, an innovative medical device company specializing in imaging technologies, announced today that it has received a 2.4M Euro grant from the European Commission as part of the Horizon 2020 European Union Framework Programme for Research and Innovation, enabling the company to carry out a large-scale clinical trial in breast cancer.
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Miracor Medical Systems GmbH (Miracor) announced today that during this year’s TCT conference in San Francisco, PiCSO has been highlighted in several sessions as offering new hope for Cardioprotection during Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI).
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Earlier this week we wrote about an innovative device from MobileODT that turns a cell phone into a colposcope for cervical cancer screening. Hot on the heels of winning the Medtech Innovator competition at AdvaMed, we had a chance to speak with Ariel Beery, the CEO of the company.
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Healthbox has announced its latest class of 14 healthcare technology companies that will participate in its combined Salt Lake City Studio and Intermountain Foundry Program launching this October.
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“We are delighted to have achieved the major landmark of a CE mark for Lightpoint’s first product offering: the LightPath™ Imaging System,” said Dr David Tuch, CEO of Lightpoint Medical. “Bringing LightPath™ to market is an important milestone in our efforts to transform cancer surgery.”
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Lightpoint Medical, an innovative medical device company specializing in imaging technologies, announced today that the LightPath™ Imaging System is now CE marked, enabling the launch of the device in Europe.
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MiNDERA Corp. (“MiNDERA), a leader in non‐invasive molecular diagnostics for dermatology and skin‐related cancers, announced today the close of its $1 million Seed financing round.
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The 2015 MedTech Innovator competition has recently announced their coveted 4 finalists. The finalists will compete at the AdvaMed 2015 conference for $300,000 in prizes.
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Cork company AventaMed, which hopes to greatly simplify the procedure millions of children undergo to have grommets inserted, has raised €1.3 million to run clinical trials on its device.
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The Diagnostics Startup of the Year Award recognizes the achievements of either a genuine startup or a business that has moved into a new Þeld. Elbowing into a new space in an already crowded industry takes guts, perseverance, brilliant marketing and a tremendous ability to learn fast.
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Lightpoint Medical, a clinical stage medical device company developing advanced imaging technologies for intra-operative cancer detection, announced today that the company has signed a global contract with PartnerTech, to build, test and distribute their molecular imaging system, LightPath™ at their facility in Cambridge, UK.
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Lightpoint Medical, an innovative medical device company specializing in imaging technologies announced today that it has received an R01 grant of $2.6M million from the US National Cancer Institute.
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Health management tech company Vynca won grand prize at the Silicon Valley Boomer Venture Summit’s Business Plan Competition, June 30 at Santa Clara University.
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Lightpoint Medical is honored to win the 2015 Award for Best Crowdfunding-Angel Investment of the Year from theUK Business Angels Association. The company was chosen for the award by a distinguished judging panel of industry and government leaders.
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Jeff Valk, CEO of Admetsys ApS, is honored to announce his company’s distinction as a Top Company Award Winner at the 2015 Digital Health Venture Forum in Aarhus, Denmark.
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Boston-based Admetsys was the winner of The Venture Forum’s ninth annual Five-Minute-Pitch contest, held in Worcester Tuesday.
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The SafeSnips patented, intraoperative platform technology can be integrated into existing surgical cutting tools to facilitate the real-time detection of blood vessels before surgical cuts are made.
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victorious, including a few big winners. Here they are, as well as the six other
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Vixiar Medical, Inc. announced today that it was awarded a $200,000 grant by the State of Maryland to accelerate the commercialization of its non-invasive congestive heart failure (CHF) device.
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Fibralign, a startup medical device company, just took home the grand prize in the 2014 MedTech Innovator competition, winning over 267 other startups.
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A young company developing a product to address secondary lymphedema, a chronic disease with no cure, stole the show at a venture competition held during a recent medical device conference.
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