United Therapeutics Corp. signed an agreement to acquire Miromatrix Medical Inc. for up to $140 million in cash, buying its way into additional organic growth. The deal would add Miromatrix’s comprehensive portfolio of bio-engineered organs to United’s existing organ production platform.
The U.K. government has launched a £100 million (US$122 million) fund that will accelerate the development of artificial intelligence (AI) tools to help tackle some of the biggest challenges in health care. Read More
The Biden administration has issued an executive order (EO) for artificial intelligence (AI), which addresses not only national security considerations, but public health considerations as well.
Advocates of expanded use of telehealth in the U.S. may believe they have an unfairly high evidentiary bar to meet to bring payers on board, but that evidentiary requirement just received support from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Read More
South Korean researchers from the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) have penned a “groundbreaking” adversarial task adaptive pretraining (A-TAPT) model that could improve the accuracy of analyzing vocal cord vibrations for medical conditions. Read More
Zense-Life Inc. reported seeking patent protection for systems and processes for manufacturing working wires for a continuous biological sensor, that reduce cost and improve accuracy and efficiency compared to current technique.
Med-tech happenings, including deals and partnerships, grants, preclinical data and other news in brief: Foxo Technologies, Integrum, Lumiradx, Seastar Medical. Read More
Regulatory snapshots, including global submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Alivedx, Neurotrigger. Read More