MedTech News
.................... by Andrew Celentano
MiniMed Announces FDA Clearance of MiniMed Flex™, the Company’s Smallest Insulin Pump Featuring Its First Smartphone-Controlled Design
MiniMed Flex™ is about half the size of the previous generation MiniMed™ 780G system, and features the SmartGuard™ adaptive algorithm to automatically adjust and autocorrect insulin delivery in real-time
Brain tumors hijack sugar metabolism to evade immune attack
Study finds immune cells in glioblastoma use fructose to evade immune response, pointing to a new treatment target
Prodeon gets FDA clearance for BPH-treating nitinol implant
Prodeon Medical announced today that it received FDA 510(k) clearance for its Urocross expander system.
Revolve Surgical wins FDA clearance for surgical robot
Revolve Surgical announced today that it received FDA 510(k) clearance for its surgical robot platform.
Perfuze wins FDA clearance for standalone aspiration catheter
Perfuze announced today that it received FDA 510(k) clearance for its Millipede88 aspiration catheter.
Smart bandage could heal and monitor wounds at the same time
Researchers have unlocked the possibility of creating smart wound dressings that enable real-time monitoring while also being able to deliver healing agents in one simple, scalable platform.
Engineered bacteria deliver cancer drug directly inside tumors in mice
Every year, millions of people are diagnosed with cancer globally; however, current treatments are limited by disease complexity. A study published in the open-access journal in PLOS Biology by Tianyu Jiang at Shandong University, Qingdao, China and colleagues suggests that Escherichia coli Nissle 1917 (EcN) may be engineered with anticancer agents to treat cancerous tumors in mice.
New implant expected to dramatically improve treatment of significant tissue loss
An international research team led by the Levenberg Laboratory in the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology has succeeded in developing a first-of-its-kind, three-dimensional implant that combines muscle and fat tissues, a lymphatic network, and a hierarchical blood vessel network.