MedTech News

Sinocare prevails in CGM trademark spat with Abbott
Sinocare announced recently that it successfully defended itself in court against trademark infringement claims brought by Abbott (NYSE:ABT).

QuantalX Neuroscience Announces CE MDR Approval, Making Brain Health Assessment Available in the EU
The company announces CE MDR approval for its novel Delphi-MD neurodiagnosis medical device in preparation for EU commercialization, improving patients’ clinical outcomes and well being while reducing healthcare systems and payors’ financial burden.

New device helps people with spinal cord injuries grasp large, heavy objects
A team of UC Berkeley engineers from the Embodied Dexterity Group has developed a wearable device to enhance grasping functionality in this population. Dubbed the Dorsal Grasper, this assistive device leverages voluntary wrist extension and uses supernumerary robotic fingers on the back of the hand to facilitate human-robot collaborative grasping.

Oral arsenic trioxide for leukemia has a 97% cure rate: Hong Kong’s prescription medicine enters international arena
Researchers at the LKS Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong (HKUMed) have invented an oral formulation of arsenic trioxide (Oral-ATO; ARSENOL) for the treatment of acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL), a blood cancer that once had a high fatality rate.

Zinc-based implants offer safer, dissolvable option for bone repair
Monash research could transform how broken bones are treated, with the development of a special zinc-based dissolvable material that could replace the metal plates and screws typically used to hold fractured bones together.

Scientists develop novel self-healing electronic skin for health monitoring
Researchers have achieved a breakthrough in wearable health technology by developing a novel self-healing electronic skin (E-Skin) that repairs itself in seconds after damage. This could potentially transform the landscape of personal health monitoring.

3D-printed, bioresorbable implant could help patients regenerate their own heart valves
Georgia Tech researchers have created a 3D-printed heart valve made of bioresorbable materials and designed to fit an individual patient’s unique anatomy. Once implanted, the valves will be absorbed by the body and replaced by new tissue that will perform the function that the device once served.

How Trump’s trade fight could impact the medtech industry
Relocating manufacturing would require substantial capital investment, but the timespan for the president’s new tariffs is unclear, supply chain experts said.