MedTech News
.................... by Andrew Celentano
Stick-on patch can monitor a baby’s movements in utero
Engineers and obstetricians at Monash University have invented a wearable Band-Aid-like patch to track a baby’s movements through the mother’s abdomen, offering a new way to support safer pregnancies from home.
Key biological marker into why young people self-harm uncovered
As many as one in six teenagers have self-harmed at some point in their lives. As well as being an indicator of emotional pain, self-harm is also the best-known predictor of death by suicide—yet researchers know little about the emotional and biological factors that lead to it.
Prototype device restores lost smell by teaching the brain to feel odors
There is new hope for people who have lost their smell. Scientists have successfully tested a breakthrough device that lets people detect the presence of certain odors. This innovative system helps them “smell” again by translating odors into feelings (like touch) inside the nose.
a2z Radiology AI receives FDA clearance for abdomen-pelvis CT device
The a2z-Unified-Triage device is designed to simultaneously flag and prioritise seven urgent findings on abdomen-pelvis CT scans.
Epileptic seizure alert wearable set to launch in Europe in 2026
Commercialisation efforts for mjn-neuro’s EPISERA sensor in Europe will be handled by Neuraxpharma.
Örebro University researchers develop new AI models for dementia
The researchers combined temporal convolutional networks and long short-term memory networks for analysing the signals.
Microbot Medical first to deploy LIBERTY robotic system
Microbot is collaborating with Emory to establish an Endovascular Robotics Program in interventional radiology to enhance the growing and evolving specialty field.
Medtronic pioneers first AI-guided circular stapler for GI surgical use
The new system gives surgeons the first intelligent circular stapling option throughout the alimentary tract for the creation of end-to-end, end-to-side, and side-to-side anastomoses in both open and laparoscopic surgeries.