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Byline: Conor Hale Merck KGaA has tapped nascent artificial intelligence developer Quris for its digital drug safety prediction platform, which includes experiments run on miniaturized human tissues encased on small [...]

Byline: Conor Hale If you are considering making an organ donation, DaVita Kidney Care aims to make that decision a little easier, at least if you're an employee. For February [...]

Byline: Conor Hale At several points over the past few months, as Illumina has moved forward with its $8 billion acquisition of the cancer blood test maker Grail despite the [...]

Byline: Conor Hale Philips has upgraded its smartphone-controlled handheld ultrasound system, adding pulse wave doppler support to help clinicians examine real-time blood flow across a range of diagnostic applications. The [...]

Byline: Conor Hale The final piece of Bausch Health's planned three-way split is falling into place: after declaring last August (https://www.fiercebiotech.com/medtech/bausch-health-s-aesthetics-devicemaker-solta-to-go-public-debt-reduction-scheme) it would spin out its aesthetics device division, the [...]

Byline: Conor Hale CooperSurgical has inked an $875 million deal to purchase Cook Medical's reproductive health portfolio, which includes medical devices for fertility, obstetrics, gynecology and in vitro fertilization. But [...]

Byline: Conor Hale Abbott has taken a major step in the development of its dual-chamber leadless pacemaker technology, with the company's first patient receiving two miniaturized, implanted devices within different [...]

Byline: Conor Hale Tasso, developer of a wearable blood collection device, is pairing up with telehealth provider Vault Health to help simplify the process of performing diagnostic tests at home. [...]

Byline: Conor Hale While last year saw a wave of COVID-19 test sales crest as routine diagnostics began to rebound, companies are now cashing in on both sides of the [...]

Byline: Conor Hale In the past, transporting a set of lungs from a donor in Alaska to a waiting patient in North Carolina would have been considered a lost cause. [...]

Byline: Conor Hale A study of Fractyl Health's one-time procedure for rejuvenating the lining of the intestines demonstrated significant and durable gains in blood sugar control for up to two [...]

Byline: Conor Hale After serving as a longtime provider of screening assays and instruments for diagnosing cancer, BD is broadening its reach in oncology by acquiring tests that monitor patients [...]

Byline: Conor Hale Pfizer has inked a deal with the Swedish digital therapeutic platform developer Alex Therapeutics to help study and launch a smartphone app for combating nicotine addiction. Prior [...]

Byline: Conor Hale Insulet has secured an FDA clearance for its latest tubeless insulin pump, the Omnipod 5, a patch-like device capable of adjusting daily doses to changes in the [...]

Byline: Conor Hale Before the FDA rules on its minimally invasive treatment for heart disease, BioVentrix is expanding its portfolio with the acquisition of another company looking to reshape a [...]

Byline: Conor Hale After receiving a European approval for its laparoscopic surgery robot at the end of 2020, Distalmotion has raised $90 million to help take its system to the [...]

Byline: Conor Hale What if the information you need to gauge your risk of a heart attack within the next year could be found in your eyes? Researchers led by [...]

Byline: Conor Hale Medtronic has logged yet another Class I medical device recall, the FDA's most serious type, after reports of injuries with its HawkOne system for clearing out clogged [...]

Byline: Conor Hale Mammoth Biosciences has secured an emergency authorization from the FDA for its high-throughput COVID-19 test, which is powered by CRISPR gene-editing enzymes. The company--born out of the [...]

Byline: Conor Hale In one of the more apt examples of bringing medtech into the home and meeting patients on their terms, the developer of a smart toilet seat has [...]

Byline: Conor Hale For researchers trying to find a single type of cell among tens of thousands, BD has outlined a new high-speed sorting technology that could help do more [...]

Byline: Conor Hale Exact Sciences presented new data for the second generation of its at-home Cologuard colorectal cancer test, which aims to improve upon its accuracy and the detection of [...]

Byline: Conor Hale Sensor maker Rockley Photonics reported that a pilot study of its wrist-worn device was able to continuously measure a person's blood pressure without the squeeze of a [...]

Byline: Conor Hale Oni, an Oxford University spinout and maker of high-resolution microscope equipment, has raised $75 million to fuel the adoption of its desktop imagers capable of tracking individual [...]

Byline: Conor Hale The FDA is recommending that healthcare providers only perform blood draws considered medically necessary, after interruptions in the nationwide supply chain and the COVID-19 pandemic have caused [...]

Byline: Conor Hale Artificial pancreas systems have shown in studies that they can be useful in managing diabetes among adults and adolescents, but the youngest children can be especially vulnerable [...]

Byline: Conor Hale In the past six months, the MIT artificial intelligence spinout Iterative Scopes raised $30 million in funding and secured European approval for its software to help spot [...]

Byline: Conor Hale The artificial intelligence-powered drug designer Schrödinger has absorbed a small company specializing in X-ray crystallography to help boost its ability to map out the shapes of target [...]

Byline: Conor Hale Medtronic delivered new clinical data demonstrating improved relief from chronic pain using a modified, low-power version of its spinal cord stimulation therapy, potentially enabling fewer recharges or [...]

Byline: Conor Hale Nearly 18 months after announcing plans to spin out its eye health business, Bausch + Lomb has filed the paperwork for an IPO on both the New [...]

Byline: Conor Hale Pacific Biosciences will work with machine learning researchers at Google to bolster the accuracy of its DNA sequencing hardware. It's not the companies' first collaboration. Pre-published work [...]

Byline: Conor Hale The artificial intelligence-powered molecule designer Insilico Medicine has collected another international drug discovery partnership, with the Shanghai-based Fosun Pharma signing on for work on four disease targets. [...]

Byline: Conor Hale Roche has launched its new point-of-care blood glucose monitor designed for hospital professionals, with a companion device shaped like a touchscreen smartphone that will run its own [...]

Byline: Conor Hale Abbott has scored clearance (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/abbott-receives-us-fda-clearance-for-new-cardiac-mapping-system-to-improve-how-doctors-treat-abnormal-heart-rhythms-301457983.html) from the FDA for its latest 3D cardiac mapping platform, designed to help physicians target abnormal heart rhythms. The EnSite X EP [...]

Byline: Conor Hale Dexcom provided a look at new data for the upcoming generation of its continuous glucose monitoring sensor. Presenting at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, the details were [...]

Byline: Conor Hale Smart device maker Withings inked a deal to buy Impeto Medical, a developer of sensors for detecting potential nerve damage, which the companies plan to incorporate into [...]

Byline: Conor Hale With a sneak peek at the DNA sequencing giant's upcoming annual earnings report, Illumina announced it would post a new revenue record after sailing past the expectations [...]

Byline: Conor Hale Seer has launched its system for categorizing the tens of thousands of proteins within the human body that drive the biologic functions of both life and disease. [...]

Byline: Conor Hale Johnson & Johnson has tapped Microsoft to help build a cloud-connected software ecosystem around its digital surgery efforts. The tech giant will serve as J&J's preferred cloud [...]

Byline: Conor Hale Exact Sciences has put down $190 million to buy testing laboratory PreventionGenetics, aiming to expand its diagnostics franchise into hereditary cancer screening. PreventionGenetics offers more than 5,000 [...]

Byline: Conor Hale While most infectious disease tests search a sample for the presence of a particular pathogen, MeMed's diagnostic collects evidence from the immune system itself and helps identify [...]

Byline: Conor Hale Cue Health is working to develop an omicron-specific COVID-19 test to help healthcare professionals quickly identify the variant through a project backed by the U.S. government. With [...]

Byline: Conor Hale Stryker inked a $3 billion deal to dramatically reshape its digital patient outreach efforts with the acquisition of Vocera Communications. The care coordination provider found new value [...]

Byline: Conor Hale Thermo Fisher Scientific started off the new year with a new member to its family, closing a $1.85 billion acquisition to build out its recombinant protein catalog. [...]

Byline: Conor Hale Fierce Healthcare and Fierce Medtech are looking for the biggest rising stars in the health tech industry, spanning the fields of artificial intelligence, software development and health [...]

Byline: Conor Hale The benchtop DNA printer developer DNA Script has expanded upon its most recent venture capital funding round, tacking on an additional $35 million for a grand total [...]

Byline: Conor Hale The U.S. government continues to push for more at-home screening to combat the spread of COVID-19 as a winter surge and the contagious delta and omicron variants [...]

Byline: Conor Hale Small cellular models of human tissue can help researchers better understand how the body reacts under rare conditions. Now, Emulate's organ-on-a-chip will help explore one of the [...]

Byline: Conor Hale Roche has secured its first FDA emergency green light for a rapid, over-the-counter COVID-19 test, as the U.S. government looks to boost at-home screenings in the face [...]

Byline: Conor Hale As we start to close out our second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, it's admittedly difficult to muster the feelings of hope and possibility that traditionally come [...]