MedTech News
.................... by Andrew Celentano
AI accurately spots medical disorder from privacy-conscious hand images
An AI can accurately diagnose a rare endocrinological condition just by analyzing pictures of the back of the hand and the clenched fist. The privacy-conscious achievement by Kobe University holds promise for establishing more efficient referral systems and reducing health care disparities across communities.
Boehringer Wins Speedy Lung Cancer Approval Under Commissioner’s Priority Program
Hernexeos is the second drug to secure an FDA approval under the agency’s priority voucher scheme, following in the footsteps of USAntibiotics’ Augmentin XR, which was granted the ticket in December 2025.
DeepHealth Achieves CE Mark for TechLive and Enables AWS Marketplace Deployment
TechLive is a multimodality, vendor-agnostic remote scanning and radiology management solution extending expert oversight across multiple modalities
Abbott earns FDA green light for next-gen CardioMEMS pulmonary artery pressure reader
Abbott (NYSE: ABT)+ today the FDA approved its CardioMEMS Hero next-generation pulmonary artery (PA) pressure reader.
Optellum Secures TGA Approval to Expand AI-Enabled Lung Nodule Solution To Australia
OXFORD, England, Feb. 26, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Optellum, the leading AI-enabled solution for earlier lung cancer detection, is thrilled to announce that it has received Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) class IIb approval in Australia for the Virtual Nodule Clinic (VNC) platform to support early lung cancer diagnosis.
A potential immunotherapy strategy for early-stage prostate cancer
Immunotherapy has been generally ineffective for prostate cancer because the tumors are considered immunologically “cold,” meaning they do not attract enough immune cells to mount a strong attack.
First-ever in-utero stem cell therapy for fetal spina bifida repair shows safe results
A Phase I clinical trial published in The Lancet has shown that combining stem cell therapy with standard fetal surgery before birth is a safe and promising approach to treat myelomeningocele, a severe form of spina bifida.
Laser Therapy Boosts Survival in Treating Brain Cancer, With Nearly Half Alive at 18 Months
Learn how a new laser-based therapy is giving patients with aggressive brain cancer a stronger chance at survival.