An implanted deep brain stimulator that calibrates its electrical pulses based on changes in brain activity reduced patients’ most bothersome symptoms of Parkinson’s disease 50%, a small feasibility study published in Nature Medicine found.

Edwards Lifesciences Corp. continued its recent acquisition streak with its buy of JC Medical Inc., a subsidiary of Genesis Medtech International. The sale included the intellectual property and commercial rights for the J-Valve system, a transcatheter aortic valve replacement for the treatment of severe aortic regurgitation.

Less than two months after the June spin-off of Grail Inc. (again), Illumina Inc. revealed a new strategy to cut costs and lift sales growth by focusing on the rapidly evolving multiomics space. Grail, meanwhile, unveiled its own plans to retool, going all in on multi-cancer early detection and cutting headcount 30%.

Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH’s and Astrazeneca plc’s implementation of a $35 monthly U.S. price cap on inhalers for asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is adding to the pressure on Prasco Laboratories and GSK plc to follow suit with the pricing of an authorized generic of GSK’s Flovent (fluticasone propionate) inhaler.

Otsuka Precision Health Inc. and Click Therapeutics Inc. pondered the signature question of cognitive behavioral therapy when setting the market approach for their jointly developed prescription digital therapeutic for major depressive disorder, Rejoyn.

Device makers and physicians alike were less than enthused about several features of the draft Medicare inpatient rule for fiscal year 2025, but thanks in part to support from the device industry, the final rule provides a new code that encompasses both left atrial appendage closure and ablation, a change that may reduce spending without dinging sales of these devices.

In an earnings call, Asensus Surgical Inc. told shareholders it will have to file for bankruptcy if they do not approve the previously reported merger with Karl Storz Se & Co. KG.

In Ciconia Medical Inc.’s first patenting, the company’s founder and CEO, Roni Cantor-Balan, describes the development of a cervical measurement device for childbirth progress monitoring that replaces the manual vaginal examinations undertaken during labor.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reinstated patent claims covering Allergan USA Inc.'s bowel treatment drug Viberzi (eluxadoline), reversing a lower court that had invalidated the claims for not meeting obviousness-type double patenting or written description requirements. However, the appellate court said the district court “can, and should, address any other grounds of invalidity raised … at trial that are adequately supported by the record.”

In response to the continuing opioid epidemic, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Brigham and Women’s Hospital developed a small implantable device that monitors heart rate, respiration and other vital signs indicative of an overdose, then automatically releases a dose of naloxone.