Medical device
Roche is launching its CoaguChek Vantus system, which allows patients to self-test for their anticoagulant therapy.
Although there are no U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approvals expected for this week, there are two Adcom meetings. Advisory Committees are used by the agency to obtain independent expert advice on scientific, technical, and policy matters.
Swiss-based Ava markets the Ava bracelet, what it calls a cycle-tracking sensor bracelet. It is being sold as a way to track a woman’s fertile period, although the company suggests it plans to see if it can be used as a type of birth control.
Advances in data storage and processing, as well as biomarker identification, has led to cutting-edge breakthroughs in clinical and research imaging technology. Here’s a look at just a few of these stories.
With the ever-increasing concerns of the opioid crisis facing the United States, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has launched an “innovation challenge” to spur on the development of medical devices that can combat the crisis and help prevent and treat opioid use disorder.
Akili Interactive, headquartered in Boston, closed a $55 million Series C financing. Akili is a prescription digital medicine company. Its goal is to treat certain disorders via high-quality video games.
During a meeting with U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb earlier this week, government and healthcare officials in New Jersey highlighted the need to hasten the approval of new drugs and permanently eliminate the tax on medical devices.
Abiomed, Inc. will pay the U.S. government $3.1 million to settle allegations that the company sought to influence doctors to use the company’s line of heart pumps in a kickback scheme.
The RND Group recently implemented an Internet of Things (IoT) solution to manage a fleet of medical devices that perform diagnostic tests and push raw test data to the cloud.
The new campus will consolidate some 400 employees in one place and give more space to the startup companies it helps.
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