UC Davis medtech team pumps life into potential kidney dialysis solution Kidney disease causes more deaths than breast cancer and prostate cancer. Continue reading →

Applications open now through April 22 for innovations that address unmet pediatric needs Washington D.C., April 05, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Recognizing the continued gap in the development and commercialization of medical devices for children versus adults, the National Capital Consortium for Pediatric Device Innovation (NCC-PDI), in collaboration with MedTech Innovator, is accepting applications through April 22, 2022, for its annual Make Your Medical Device Pitch for Kids! competition. Continue reading →

Two doctors at MUSC Health are the first at an academic medical center and only the second in the world to use a new, minimally invasive procedure to implant a heart failure treatment device and, in an interesting turn of events, theyre both women in heavily male-dominated specialties. Vascular surgeon Jean Marie Ruddy, M.D., is principal investigator at the MUSC site for the trial of this new implantation method for Barostim Continue reading →

The U.K.-based company has created an advanced energy multimodality instrument developed for flexible endoscopy. Continue reading →

Self-testing has become a regular part of life thanks to Covid-19. The world relied on lateral flow tests (LFTs) to track and trace the virus, stop its spread, and identify variants of concern. The 11 March marked two years since the WHO declared Covid-19 a global pandemic. Continue reading →

Editor's note: This article appears in the March/April 2022 edition of HealthLeaders magazine. With the healthcare industry's gradual shift to patient-centered care over the past two decades, healthcare organizations are realizing it's more effective to bring care to the patient, rather than forcing the patient to go somewhere to get care. That strategy is based on the idea that healthcare is continuous, rather than episodic, and that a care provider will learn a lot more by going to the patient to learn about lifestyle, daily routines, and habits than waiting for that visit to the doctor's office, clinic, or hospital. Continue reading →

For Jos Morey, a consultant to a number of organizations including NASA and IBM as well as a technology speaker and medical consultant, the future is now. Continue reading →

A flurry of deadlines for grants, accelerators, and more are upcoming do you have these on your radar? Scroll through four tech and startup opportunities happening in Houston and open for Houston innovators. Continue reading →

Fresenius Kabi accomplished 3 biosimilar targets recently, with the announcement of its pegfilgrastim biosimilar receiving the green light from the European Commission, its purchase of a majority stake in biosimilar manufacturer mAbxience, and its acquisition of Ivenix. European Approval of Pegfilgrastim Biosimilar The European Commission authorized Fresenius Kabis Stimufend, a biosimilar referencing Neulasta, for marketing across the European Union, making it the companys first European approval for an oncology biosimilar and second European approval overall. Stimufend was approved for all of the same indications as the reference product. Continue reading →

Kate Stephenson, Dyad Engineering Enthusiastic and highly committed to their cause, medical device startup founders speak with a deep passion about righting the wrongs of healthcare and the immense potential for profit in doing so. However, they also tend to be overly confident, nave about the sheer amount of work their idea represents and perennially underfunded Continue reading →