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Titan Medical sets $8m to $12m range on overnight offering for Sport surgical...
Titan Medical (TSE:TMD) said yesterday that it hopes to raise between $8 million and $12 million via an overnight offering it plans to use to restart the development program for its Sport...
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Japan approves Medtronic’s Reveal Linq cardiac monitor
Medtronic (NYSE:MDT) wasted no time in launching its Reveal Linq cardiac monitor in Japan, saying it plans to launch the device there this month now that the device won approval from the Ministry of...
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Amputees’ brain remember missing limbs even years later
University of Oxford Hand & Brain Lab Researchers from Oxford University demonstrated that amputees’ brains can remember their missing hands, even 30 years later. At Oxford University’s Hand &...
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Light-based arrhythmia treatment skips the shocks
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University and Germany’s University of Bonn showed that light can restore a normal heartbeat and replace electric shocks in patients at risk for arrhythmia, according to a...
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Stryker to acquire Instratek assets
Stryker (NYSE:SYK) said today that it agreed to acquire Instratek for an undisclosed amount at the end of the 4th quarter. The medtech giant will take on the Houston -based company’s portfolio of...
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Neural Analytics lands $3M NIH grant
Neural Analytics landed a $3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health for the diagnostic and monitoring technology it’s developing for traumatic brain injury and stroke, the company...
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Essential Medical closes $14.9M Series B for vascular closure device
Essential Medical said today that it closed a $14.9 million Series B round to support the development and commercialization of its vascular closure devices. The round was led by Amzak Health and joined...
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Trumpf launches venture investment arm
Trumpf said yesterday it launched a venture capital investment arm looking to fund tech startups, with official operations having opened July 1. Get the full story at our sister site, Medical Design...
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Potrero Medical raises $5m
Potrero Medical raised $4.8 million in a new round of equity financing, according to an SEC filing posted this week. San Francisco-based Potrero developed the Accuryn monitoring system designed to use...
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Insulet closes $345 private placement
Insulet (NSDQ:PODD) said yesterday that it closed a $345 million private placement, raking in $45 million more than it expected when it priced the round last week. Billerica, Mass.-based Insulet, which...
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FDA approves Carl Zeiss Meditec’s VisuMax femtosecond laser
The FDA today granted premarket approval to Carl Zeiss Meditec (ETR:AFX) for its VisuMax femtosecond Laser, with indications for small incision lenticule extraction procedures to reduce or eliminate...
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Mylan CEO to testify before House panel over EpiPen pricing
(Reuters) –Mylan (NSDQ:MYL) Chief Executive Officer Heather Bresch will appear at a Sept. 21 congressional hearing over price increases for its EpiPen emergency allergy treatment, the U.S. House of...
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MassDevice.com +5 | The top 5 medtech stories for September 14, 2016
Say hello to MassDevice +5, a bite-sized view of the top five medtech stories of the day. This feature of MassDevice.com’s coverage highlights our 5 biggest and most influential stories from the day’s...
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Lantheus Medical Imaging prices $40m offering
Lantheus Medical Imaging (NSDQ:LNTH) last week priced a new $40 million offering, with funds slated to pay down approximately $55 million of the outstanding principal balance under its senior secured...
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Three forces driving med tech to be end-to-end solution providers
By Tim Kofol and Rebecca Noble Unless your job involves orthopedic devices, you might have glossed over this year’s exciting news: as of April 1, 2016, the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement...
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FDA and access to medications
By: Janet Woodcock, M.D. A severe allergic reaction called anaphylaxis is a medical emergency that affects the whole body and, in some cases, leads to death. If you have had an anaphylaxis episode, you...
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Diabetes: Medtronic touts JAMA study of closed-loop artificial pancreas
Medtronic (NYSE:MDT) said data from a study of its closed-loop hybrid artificial pancreas, published in the Journal of the American Medical Assn., showed that the system is safe and effectively...
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Hologram tech allows surgeons to manipulate images within sterile field
NZ Technologies, a Vancouver-based technology firm, developed an interactive hologram device to assist surgeons and radiologists at British Columbia’s Surrey Memorial Hospital. The system, called Tipso...
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Tissue-engineered human liver made from stem & progenitor cells
Researchers at the Saban Research Institute of Children’s Hospital in Los Angeles generated mouse and human tissue-engineered livers from organoid units composed of stem and progenitor cells, according...
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Zimmer Biomet picks up imaging company Clinical Graphics
Zimmer Biomet (NYSE:ZBH) said today it picked up novel imaging company Clinical Graphics, B.V. for an undisclosed amount. Warsaw, Ind.-based Clinical Graphics produces 3D range-of-motion simulation...
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