The first patenting from Los Angeles-based Ecate LLC sees the company’s founder, Allesandro Maggi, describe a bi-directional, closed-loop spinal cord machine interface that can bridge the gap in communication between the brain and the body in paralyzed patients.

Edwards Lifesciences Corp. said it has exercised its option to buy Innovalve Bio Medical Ltd., an early stage transcatheter mitral valve replacemen company, for $300 million in cash following its initial investment in 2017. Since that time, Edwards said Innovalve has demonstrated progress in its program with promising early clinical experience.

A committee of the U.S. House of Representatives proposed an FDA discretionary spending bill of less than $26 billion in appropriated taxpayer dollars for fiscal year 2025.

Lunglife AI Inc. is looking for a strategic partner to help get Lunglb — its non-invasive test for the early detection of lung cancer — into the market and to the patients who need it. The company’s artificial intelligence-supported blood-based test, which identifies indeterminate lung nodules, will be game changing for early lung cancer diagnosis, Paul Pagano, Lunglife CEO, told BioWorld.

The U.S. FDA’s final guidance for device-based treatments for opioid use disorder breaks little new ground relative to the 2023 draft, including a call for the use of a randomized, controlled clinical trial that retains blinding of not just enrollees, but also of the clinicians taking part in these studies.

AI-focused medical diagnostics company Spectral AI Inc. is collaborating with burn wound therapy company Polynovo Ltd. to test limited deployment of Spectral’s Deepview system for predicting burn healing in Australia.

The U.S. Medicare physician fee schedule for 2025 appears set to reduce the number of services that can be provided via telehealth, but the proposed rate cut of 2.8% for physician services triggered a backlash from specialty medical societies, which seem destined to lobby Capitol Hill for a reversal of these cuts.

Know Labs Inc.’s radiofrequency sensor accurately classified blood glucose levels more than 93% of the time, a study published in Diabetes Technology & Therapeutics found. That’s good news for people with diabetes, who may be able to use the non-invasive technology to avoid not just the needle sticks that used to be the hallmark of diabetes management, but even the microneedles used in current continuous glucose systems.

Researchers from Arizona State University and Mayo Clinic have filed for protection of wireless, battery-free brain implants which may be used in the monitoring, stimulation, and treatment of epilepsy, tumors, neurodegenerative disorders, neuroinflammatory conditions and trauma.

In the recently cast shadow of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Loper Bright decision that unraveled Chevron deference for federal agencies, the FTC’s broad rule banning noncompete employment clauses is on shaky ground. The first tremor hit July 3 when the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas temporarily enjoined the FTC Noncompete Rule that is scheduled to go into effect Sept. 4 on the grounds that the agency overstepped its authority.