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Airiver Medical Granted FDA’s Breakthrough Device Designation for Pulmonary Drug Coated Balloon to Treat Central Airway Stenosis

BROOKLYN PARK, Minn., March 4, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Airiver Medical, a clinical stage company developing technologies to help patients who suffer from certain respiratory tract conditions, was granted designation as a Breakthrough Device from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its Airiver Pulmonary Drug Coated Balloon (DCB) to treat central airway stenosis.

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Monteris Medical Announces New Study Showing NeuroBlate® Laser Ablation May Enhance Immunotherapy Response, Providing Significant Overall Survival Improvement in Recurrent High Grade Brain Tumors

MINNETONKA, Minn., March 4, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Monteris Medical, the leader in minimally invasive neurosurgical technology with its NeuroBlate® System, announced today that a newly published randomized prospective study in the distinguished journal Nature Communications suggests that laser interstitial thermal therapy (LITT) using NeuroBlate may enhance the effectiveness of the immunotherapy drug pembrolizumab (Keytruda®) for patients with recurrent high grade astrocytoma, including glioblastoma (GBM).

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‘Mini hearts’ show COVID-19 virus directly infects heart tissue

Researchers from the Centenary Institute and the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) have developed a human heart cell model demonstrating that the virus that causes COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) can directly infect heart tissue, providing new insight into why some people experience serious heart complications during and after infection.

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Asieris: CEVIRA Approved in China as First-in-Class Non-Invasive Therapy for Cervical Precancerous Lesions

OSLO, Norway, March 3, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Photocure ASA (OSE: PHO), the Bladder Cancer Company, announces that its partner Asieris Pharmaceuticals (SSE: 688176) communicated today that its core product APL-1702 (trade name: CEVIRA®), has received the Drug Registration Certificate from China’s National Medical Products Administration (NMPA), enabling commercial launch in China.

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Perimeter Medical Imaging AI’s ‘Claire’ Becomes First FDA-approved AI-Enabled Imaging Device for Breast Cancer Surgery

TORONTO and DALLAS, March 3, 2026 /PRNewswire/ – Perimeter Medical Imaging AI, Inc. (TSXV: PINK) (OTCQX: PYNKF) (“Perimeter” or the “Company”), a commercial-stage medical technology company, announced today that it has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) premarket approval (“PMA”) for Claire™ (formerly the Perimeter OCT B-Series with ImgAssist AI 2.0), the first AI-enabled imaging device approved in the United States for intraoperative breast cancer margin assessment.

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