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Olympus launches single-use hemostasis clip
Olympus announced that it launched a new hemostasis clip to meet the needs of gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopists.

Designing better ways to deliver drugs
Graduate student and MathWorks Fellow Louis DeRidder is developing a device to make chemotherapy dosing more accurate for individual patients.

J&J’s Shockwave Medical launches new IVL catheter
Johnson & Johnson MedTech‘s Shockwave Medical today announced the U.S. launch of its Javelin peripheral intravascular lithotripsy (IVL) catheter

Immune ‘fingerprints’ aid diagnosis of complex diseases
Your immune system harbors a lifetime’s worth of information about threats it’s encountered—a biological Rolodex of baddies. Often the perpetrators are viruses and bacteria you’ve conquered; others are undercover agents like vaccines given to trigger protective immune responses or even red herrings in the form of healthy tissue caught in immunological crossfire.

New AI tool surpasses previous methods in colorectal cancer tissue analysis
Researchers at the University of Jyväskylä, in collaboration with the University of Turku’s Institute of Biomedicine, University of Helsinki and Nova Hospital of Central Finland, have developed an advanced artificial intelligence tool for automatic analysis of colorectal cancer tissue slides.

Scientists discover a new mechanism for how glioblastoma reprograms tumor-infiltrating neutrophils
The lab of Filippo Veglia, Ph.D., at The Wistar Institute has discovered a previously unknown mechanism for how aggressive brain cancers reprogram immune system cells from fighting cancer to enabling further tumor growth. The team’s findings were published in the paper “Functional reprogramming of neutrophils within the brain tumor microenvironment by hypoxia-driven histone lactylation,” from Cancer Discovery.

Arcuro Medical Announces FDA 510(k) Clearance for the SuperBall RC for Rotator Cuff Indications
MINNEAPOLIS and MISGAV, Israel, Feb. 27, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Arcuro Medical Ltd., (“Arcuro”) today announced that it received FDA 510(k) clearance for its new SuperBall-RC™ system for use in rotator cuff repair procedures.

Pregnancy blood test ‘rapid sensor’ can detect birth risks earlier
University of Queensland researchers have developed a new rapid sensor that can detect pregnancy complications, such as gestational diabetes, preterm birth risks and hypertension, as early as 11 weeks—with a simple blood test.