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Guided Therapeutics reveals details of $50m LuViva deal in China
Guided Therapeutics (OTC:GTHP) said that it inked an exclusive licensing agreement with Shandong Yaohua Medical Instrument Corp., to manufacture its LuViva advanced cervical scan system and related...
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Alphatec raises $19m in private placement
Alphatec (NSDQ:ATEC) said it inked a deal to raise roughly $18.9 million in a private placement led by “new healthcare-dedicated institutional investors.” The placement, expected to close March 28,...
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Permira funds to buy contract manufacturer LSNE
Private equity firm Permira announced today that it will acquire Lyophilization Services of New England (LSNE), a contract developer and manufacturer in both the pharmaceutical and medical device...
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Researchers win $1.8m NIH grant to develop implantable system for HIV prevention
Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill won a $1.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop an implantable drug delivery system for sustained...
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Solar powered skin could make prosthetics better: Here’s how
[Image from the University of Glasgow]University of Glasgow engineers are using the sun to power artificial skin and return a sense of touch in amputees with prosthetics. The engineers previously...
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Defense Dept. reups $77m Philips Healthcare contract
The U.S. Defense Dept. last week picked up a $77.2 million option on a contract with Philips Healthcare (NYSE:PHG) for its patient monitoring devices. It’s the 8th 1-year option on a potentially 9-year...
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EU regulators: We should suspend drugs at suspect Indian facility
This week, the European Medicines Agency recommended the suspension of more than 300 generic drug approvals and applications, after they uncovered “unreliable” tests conducted by Micro Therapeutic...
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Skin sensors provide insights into how to treat Parkinson’s
[Image from MC10]A University of Rochester research team is using wearable sensors to indicate the best individualized treatment of Parkinson’s disease. Bernadette Mroz suffers from Parkinson’s. When...
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MassDevice.com +5 | The top 5 medtech stories for March 27, 2017
Say hello to MassDevice +5, a bite-sized view of the top five medtech stories of the day. This feature of MassDevice.com’s coverage highlights our 5 biggest and most influential stories from the day’s...
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Integra, Dr. Reddy’s ink deal for DuraGen in India
Integra LifeSciences (NSDQ:IART) and Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories (NYSE:RDY) inked an exclusive distribution agreement for the DuraGen Plus and suturable DuraGen Dural Regeneration Matrices in India....
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Growing human hearts: The answer is spinach leaves?
[Image from Worcester Polytechnic Institute]We could soon be using spinach to grow human hearts, thanks to new research from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and...
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New medical device rules change India’s Authorized Agent role
By Stewart Eisenhart, Emergo Group The role of in-country representatives for medical device manufacturers registered in India will change substantially under the country’s new Medical Device Rules...
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Trumpcare’s demise augurs ill for medical device tax repeal
The immolation of the Trumpcare bill last week doesn’t bode well for the medical device industry’s hopes for repeal the medtech tax that’s slated to go back into effect next year. The 2.3% excise tax...
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3D model of female reproductive system could help test drugs for efficacy,...
In January last year, the National Institutes of Health issued a new requirement for grant funding in basic science: Researchers must discuss how gender as a biological variable will impact their...
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Cardiologists: $6B NIH cut a ‘catastrophe’
Top heart doctors and researchers reportedly described President Donald Trump’s proposed 20% cut to the National Institutes of Health budget as “chilling” and a “catastrophe” at the American College of...
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Judge moves Stryker-DJO Global poaching case to Indiana
A federal judge in New Jersey yesterday transferred a sales rep poaching case between DJO Global and Stryker (NYSE:SYK) to Indiana because the quintet of ex-Stryker sales reps involved live there and...
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Pyng Medical shareholders OK $9m Teleflex takeover
Pyng Medical (CVE:PYT) said yesterday that its shareholders approved an $8.6 million takeover offer from Teleflex (NYSE:TFX), setting the stage for the deal to close April 3. First announced in early...
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Supreme Court remands medical device patent cases
The U.S. Supreme Court sent back several appeals to the federal circuit this week, including 1 relating to Johnson & Johnson‘s (NYSE:JNJ) stent patent fight with Medinol, in light of a recent vote...
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Another InVivo spine injury patient converts
InVivo Therapeutics (NSDQ:NVIV) said today that a patient enrolled in January in its Inspire study has improved from a complete AIS A spinal cord injury to an incomplete AIS B spinal cord injury. This...
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Burst Biologics to launch spinal fusion trial
Burst Biologics said today that it won regulatory approval to begin a clinical trial evaluating its BioBurst Fluid cellular allograft in spinal fusion patients. The company’s cellular allograft is...
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