MedTech News
.................... by Andrew Celentano
Scientists transform wool into bone repair material
The King’s College London team tested the wool-based keratin in animal models and found the material was able to guide new bone growth across damaged areas.
Medtronic wins FDA breakthrough nod for Sphere-9 catheter, reports new clinical milestones for Affera
Medtronic (NYSE:MDT) today announced new milestones for its Affera family of technologies, including FDA breakthrough device designation.
BrioHealth gets conditional FDA nod for pediatric ventricular assist device study
BrioHealth announced that it received conditional FDA approval to conduct a clinical evaluation of its ventricular assist device (VAD) in pediatric patients.
Label-free optical imaging enables automated measurement of human white matter microstructure
In a study published in Biophotonics Discovery, researchers report a new way to examine white matter structure in postmortem human brains.
Sweet discovery rewrites understanding of how our bodies store sugar
WEHI researchers have discovered a never-before-seen mechanism our bodies use to regulate sugar, in findings that rewrite the fundamental rules of biology and open a new frontier in science.
Whole-body ultrasound captures full cross-sections in 10 seconds, early tests show
Lihong Wang, Bren Professor of Medical Engineering and Electrical Engineering, and a team of Caltech researchers have developed a system that can perform ultrasound tomography (UST) imaging on whole cross-sections of the body.
CGBIO Receives FDA 510(k) Clearance for Patient-Specific Titanium Implant ‘EASYMADE TI’
SEOUL, South Korea, April 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — CGBIO (CEO: Hyunseung Yu) announced that its patient-specific titanium implant, EASYMADE TI, has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on April 9. The FDA 510(k) pathway is a premarket clearance process that demonstrates substantial equivalence to a legally marketed predicate device, allowing commercialization in the United States.
Medtronic wins CE mark for ApexCut surgical blades
Medtronic (NYSE:MDT) announced today that it received CE mark approval for its ApexCut surgical blades for ENT procedures.