Category: Medical Devices

June 22, 2021

The $540m venture financing of Noom was the medical devices industry’s top cross border venture financing deal as total deals worth $1.7bn were announced globally in May 2021, according to GlobalData’s deals database. The value marked an increase of 72.9% […]

June 1, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic led to an unprecedented number of postponed and cancelled elective surgical procedures in 2020, substantially negatively impacting the general surgery devices market, especially in its worst hit months of April and May. While many of the general […]

May 17, 2021

Led by $150m venture financing of WuXi Diagnostic Investment (Cayman), total medical devices industry venture financing deals worth $912.88m were announced in Asia-Pacific in Q1 2021, according to GlobalData’s deals database. The value marked a decrease of 37.04% over the […]

May 11, 2021

The SonarMed airway monitoring system consists of a bedside monitor and a single-use sensor. Using acoustic technology, the device examines ETT obstruction and confirms the real-time position. This offers vital data needed for informed decisions on treating neonates and infants. […]

May 10, 2021

Contact lenses, dermal fillers, machines for laser treatment for body hair removal… all products without medical purpose that will fall under the Medical Device Regulation as of 25 May 2020. The manufacturers must comply to the new regulation, but do […]

May 6, 2021

Led by $635m acquisition of Capsule Technologies, North America’s medical devices industry saw a rise of 34.83% in cross border deal activity during Q1 2021, when compared to the last four-quarter average, according to GlobalData’s deals database. A total of […]

April 19, 2021

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted an Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) to AgNovos Healthcare’s latest investigational product, the AGN1 Local Osteo-enhancement Procedure (LOEP) Small Volume (SV) kit. This kit is an investigational device for treating stable but […]

April 8, 2021

Progress in science and technology offers extraordinary opportunities to develop innovative medical products that can save lives and lead to better treatments, better diagnostics and better care for patients. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is committed to advancing the […]

April 6, 2021

The idea of implantable sensors that continuously transmit information on vital values and concentrations of substances or drugs in the body has fascinated physicians and scientists for a long time. Such sensors enable the constant monitoring of disease progression and […]

April 5, 2021

Hardy Diagnostics, in partnership with Autobio, has launched the Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionized Time of Flight instrument. The device, which is otherwise known as MALDI-TOF, offers high-speed detection and taxonomical classification of bacteria, yeasts and filamentous fungi based on proteomic fingerprinting. […]

March 24, 2021

Total medical devices industry cross border deals worth $545.3m were announced globally for February 2021, with the $108m private equity deal with Mainstay Medical International being the sector’s biggest investment, according to GlobalData’s deals database. The value marked a decrease […]

March 24, 2021

Digital healthcare company Ava is set to commence the study of a wearable fertility tracker device to detect Covid-19 infection in real-time and alert individuals to get tested or self-isolate prior to symptom onset. The Ava Fertility Tracker is primarily […]

February 19, 2021

Researchers at the Institut de Neurociències obtained a highly accurate recreation of human glioblastoma’s features using a novel 3D microscopy analysis. The study, published in the journal Acta Neuropathologica Communications, provides new information to help with the diagnose, by finding […]

February 9, 2021

The feedback from hospitals purchasing executives, gathered in the fourth quarter of 2020, shows capital equipment budgets remain resilient in the face of COVID-19. Most purchasing executives expect their capital budgets to grow rather than shrink: 64% of managers predict […]

January 26, 2021

A group of KAIST researchers and collaborators have engineered a tiny brain implant that can be wirelessly recharged from outside the body to control brain circuits for long periods of time without battery replacement. The device is constructed of ultra-soft […]