MedTech News
Capstan Medical completes first robot-assisted transcatheter mitral valve replacements
Capstan Medical today announced the first successful transcatheter mitral valve replacements using its novel implant and surgical robotics system.
Phantom Neuro’s neural interface wins FDA breakthrough and TAP designations
Phantom Neuro today announced it received FDA breakthrough device designation and Targeted Acceleration Pathway (TAP) designation for its minimally invasive neural interface Phantom X.
Viestro launches Aletta robotic phlebotomy device
Vitestro today launched its Aletta autonomous robotic phlebotomy device (ARPD) that performs automated blood draws.
Stryker’s Inari Medical launches Artex thrombectomy system
Inari Medical — now part of Stryker — announced that it launched its Artix thrombectomy system for arterial thrombectomies
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.