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Placing battery tech directly on tissue to deliver lithium ions for targeted pain relief

A new study from the University of Chicago taps an ingredient most often used in the lithium-ion batteries that power our devices to open new avenues in biomedical technology. Lithium plays vital roles in the body, but taking it orally can have unwanted side effects—so a pair of UChicago chemistry labs teamed up to find a way to deliver lithium only to the exact places where it’s needed.

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Haemonetics Receives FDA Approval for Expanded Labeling of the VASCADE MVP® XL Venous Vascular Closure System

BOSTON, March 30, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Haemonetics Corporation (NYSE: HAE), a global medical technology company focused on delivering innovative solutions designed to improve patient outcomes, today announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval to expand the labeling for the VASCADE MVP® XL venous vascular closure system to include procedures using 10-14F inner diameter (ID) and up to 17F outer diameter (OD) procedural sheaths. With this label expansion, the VASCADE MVP XL system is approved for larger sheaths used in market-leading technologies for pulsed field ablation (PFA) and left atrial appendage closure (LAAC) to treat atrial fibrillation.

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AI model can predict chemotherapy benefit in breast cancer

Researchers from the Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, together with collaborators from leading medical centers in the United States and Europe, have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) model that predicts both the risk of breast cancer recurrence and the likelihood that a patient will benefit from chemotherapy.

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