Medical image guidance developer group ReMAP said today it won FDA approval for the 7D surgical machine-vision image guidance system, now cleared for spinal surgery. The ReMAP 07 team is a collaborative effort between Canadian medical device firm 7D Surgical, Celestica, Ryerson University and the Sunnybrook Research Institute to advance optical technologies used for their image-guided surgery […]
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7 medical device industry suppliers you need to visit at MD&M West 2017
More than 20,000 engineers and executives are heading to Anaheim, Calif., this week for MD&M West—which its creator UBM bills as the world’s largest annual medical device manufacturing event. The event boasts a multitude of medical device–related products and services, ranging from co-extrusion to metal cleaning fluids. They are also a tungsten supplier to use for medical […]
ConMed slides on Q4 earnings miss
ConMed (NSDQ:CNMD) shares are off some 6% this week after the medical device company missed expectations with its 4th-quarter earnings. Utica, N.Y.-based ConMed posted a -14.6% profit decline to $6.7 million, or 24¢ per share, on sales growth of 6.8% to $204.1 million for the 3 months ended Dec. 31, compared with Q4 2015. Adjusted […]
AirXpanders lands $34m private placement
AirXpanders (ASX:AXP) said today that it has commitments from investors in a private placement to raise A$45 million, or $34 million USD. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based company said that its investors committed to subscribe for 16.3 million shares of common stock at ¢70 apiece. The company plans to use the funds to bring its breast tissue […]
Verb Surgical debuts robot-assisted surgery prototype
Verb Surgical, Johnson & Johnson‘s (NYSE:JNJ) joint venture with Google parent Alphabet‘s (NSDQ:GOOGL) Verily Life Sciences, said today that it debuted its 1st digital surgery prototype to its collaboration partners at Ethicon Endo-Surgery and J&J. Robotic surgery, a fast growing field dominated by Intuitive Surgical (NSDQ:ISRG) and its da Vinci system, isn’t using robots yet, according to Verily CEO Andrew Conrad. In […]
Prescient Surgical wins de novo FDA nod for CleanCision surgical wound cleaning device
Surgical device spin-out Prescient Surgical said today it won de novo clearance from the FDA for its CleanCision wound retraction and protection system designed to cleanse and protect surgical wound edges. The San Carlos, Calif.-based company said its CleanCision device is the 1st in a new category of irrigating wound protection devices, as classified by […]
Medtronic launches trial for Visualase MRI-Guided laser ablation device in epilepsy patients
Medtronic (NYSE:MDT) said today that the 1st procedure using the Visualase MRI-Guided laser ablation system has been performed in its SLATE clinical trial evaluating the device in patients with drug-resistant mesial temporal lobe epilepsy. The trial is slated to enroll 120 patients with MTLE, the most common form of epilepsy. Researchers will observe the patients […]
7D Surgical wins FDA, Health Canada nod for spinal surgical guidance system
Canadian medical device firm 7D Surgical said today it won FDA 510(k) and Health Canada clearance for its machine-vision image guided 7D Surgical navigation system designed for spinal procedures. The Toronto-based company’s surgical system uses 3D optical technologies which require only natural light, as well as machine vision algorithms. 7D Surgical touted the system as […]
J&J’s Ethicon wins FDA nod for Echelon Flex 45mm GST
Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) subsidiary Ethicon said today it won FDA 510(k) clearance for its Echelon Flex 45mm endocutter with proprietary gripping surface technology. The clearance follows an earlier pass by the federal agency for Ethicon’s Echelon Flex 60mm powered plus stapler. With the new clearance, Echelon’s Flex GST system offers both 45mm and 60mm endocutters with […]
J&J’s Ethicon picks up electrosurgical tool maker Megadyne Medical
Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) subsidiary Ethicon Endo-Surgery said today that it paid an unspecified amount for Megadyne Medical Products, 4 years after inking a collaboration deal with the electrosurgical tools maker . “We are committed to meeting the evolving needs of surgeons and hospital systems, and the addition of Megadyne’s state-of-the-art portfolio gives us a comprehensive […]
InVivo adds patient to regenerative spinal scaffold trial
InVivo Therapeutics (NSDQ:NVIV) said today that it enrolled a new patient in the Inspire study of its neuro-spinal scaffold. Principal investigator Dr. Travis Dumont performed the implantation earlier this week, 67 hours after the patient’s spinal cord injury happened. “The implantation procedure of the neuro-spinal scaffold was successful, and the patient is doing well,” Dumont said […]