Med-tech happenings, including deals and partnerships, grants, preclinical data and other news in brief: Ads Biotec, Atum, Babcock International Group, Cerus, Diazyme Laboratories, Exthera Medical, Grifols, Henry Schein, Ifirst Medical Technologies, Integragen, Ixlayer, Kurabo Industries, Lumos Diagnostics, Microbiosensor, Orthofix, Planet Innovation, Seqster, Suse, Twist Bioscience, Tyto Care, Wittenshein.
Med-tech happenings, including deals and partnerships, grants, preclinical data and other news in brief: 3M, Affinity Health Partners, Allogene Therapeutics, Bellaseno, Curemetrix, Decipher Biosciences, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, Ford Motor, GE Healthcare, Genmark Diagnostics, Global Center for Medical Innovation, Heat Biologics, Intervenn Biosciences, Iqvia, Letsgetchecked, Maxcyte, Nano-X Imaging, No Borders, Nuclein, Pathsensors, Protex, Q2 Solutions, Qiagen, Quest Diagnostics, Tamarin Health, Vero Biotech, Zoll.
Trying to build out a new med-tech product category is a time-consuming and costly endeavor. Senseonics Holdings Inc. has long pursued the vision of extended-use, implantable continuous glucose monitoring. Since it was founded in 1996, the Germantown, Md.-based company has already spent roughly half a billion dollars to get there.
Before becoming the global head of Johnson & Johnson External Innovation, William Hait spent 30 years in academic medicine focused on oncology. Whenever he speaks to a group, the first question he asks is if there is anyone in the room that would like to get a disease.
Med-tech happenings, including deals and partnerships, grants, preclinical data and other news in brief: Behold.ai, Biome Analytics, COVID-19 Healthcare Coalition, Harvard Bioscience, Masimo, Medical Alley Association, Mitre, Nxgen MDx, Novocyt, Parallax Health Sciences, Senseonics, Smiths Group, Thornhill Medical, Xphyto Therapeutics.
Zurich-based startup Ava Science Inc. recently issued a public call for partners and funding to further research the potential usefulness of its fertility wearable, known as Ava Bracelet, during the COVID-19 pandemic.
With an eye toward helping those potentially suffering from COVID-19, Mountain View, Calif.-based Alivecor Inc. said its six-lead electrocardiogram (ECG), known as the Kardiamobile 6L, now is allowed for use in the measurement of a patient's QTc and detection of QT prolongation. The Kardiamobile 6L enables patients to take a six-lead ECG outside a doctor’s office.
With the number of COVID-19 cases continuing to rise and with people social distancing and quarantining, at-home diagnostics and telehealth offer the means for doctors and patients to get vital answers and care without meeting face to face. Now, Los Angeles-based Scanwell Health has gained exclusive rights to license and distribute a rapid serology test from Innovita Biological Technology Co. Ltd., of Hebei, China, for at-home testing of SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19.
PERTH, Australia – Australian digital health company Resapp Health Ltd. was down nearly 52% following news that the U.S. FDA rejected its de novo request for its smartphone application for the diagnosis and management of respiratory disease. The agency rejected the application, citing the need for additional information to demonstrate that the “clinical benefits of the device outweigh the risks,” CEO Tony Keating told analysts during a March 12 conference call on the news.
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