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MedTech 100 roundup: Industry roars back

April 12, 2021 By Sean Whooley Leave a Comment

In the blink of an eye, the medtech industry exited its spring slump and neared its all-time best performance levels. MassDevice‘s MedTech 100 Index offered signs of a rebound last week and has built on that momentum, registering a final tally of 109.39 points on April 9. That represents a 2.9% increase from the 106.26-point mark […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Featured, Funding Roundup, Initial Public Offering (IPO), MassDevice Earnings Roundup, Mergers & Acquisitions, Wall Street Beat Tagged With: Better Therapeutics, Google, Hologic, INSIGHTEC, LumiraDX, MedTech 100 Index, Medtronic, Olympus, Outset Medical, Pixium Vision, Second Sight, Varian

Second Sight, Pixium Vision merger plans are over

April 5, 2021 By Sean Whooley Leave a Comment

Second Sight Medical notified Pixium that it decided to unilaterally terminate a memorandum of understanding (MOU) ahead of a planned merger. In a news release, Pixium said the $27.9 million private placement recently announced and closed by Second Sight was “not only explicitly prohibited under the terms of the [MOU] entered into by the companies […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Featured, Mergers & Acquisitions, Optical/Ophthalmic Tagged With: Pixium Vision, Second Sight

MedTech 100 roundup: Slight rise for the industry

March 29, 2021 By Sean Whooley

While medtech’s performance still isn’t mirroring the beginning of 2021, the industry is showing signs of life with a small improvement last week. The year’s strong start, during which MassDevice‘s MedTech 100 index notched an all-time best of 110.96 points (Feb. 15) came to an end later that month and carried over into March, with the […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Diagnostics, Featured, Genomics/Molecular Diagnostics, Mergers & Acquisitions, Wall Street Beat Tagged With: 7D Surgical, Biocorp, Boston Scientific, coronavirus, COVID-19, Decision Diagnostics, Dexcom, Diabeloop, MedTech 100 Index, Personnel Moves, Pixium Vision, SeaSpine, Second Sight

DTW Podcast – CEO MacMillan on how COVID-19 strengthened Hologic

March 27, 2021 By Tom Salemi

Hologic CEO Steve MacMillan says in early March 2020 he didn’t appreciate how COVID-19 would change the world forever. But the diagnostics company quickly rose to the challenge, becoming one of the surer suppliers of diagnostic tests needed to chart the coronavirus’s severity. In this DeviceTalks Weekly podcast, MacMillan shares how Hologic pivoted to meet […]

Filed Under: Device Talks Podcasts, Diagnostics, Featured, Special Content Tagged With: Boston Scientific, DeviceTalks Weekly, GuardianLane, Hologic, Medtech Color, Medtronic, Packworld USA, Pixium Vision, Second Sight, Thermo Fisher Scientific

Second Sight’s merger with Pixium Vision may fall through

March 24, 2021 By Chris Newmarker

Second Sight‘s plans to raise $27.9 million from a private placement appear to have generated conflict with its would-be owner Pixium Vision. Pixium informed Second Sight (NSDQ: EYES)  yesterday that the private placement would breach the memorandum of understanding the two companies reached in early January, according to a Second Sight filing with the SEC. […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Featured, Legal News, Mergers & Acquisitions, Neuromodulation/Neurostimulation, Optical/Ophthalmic Tagged With: Pixium Vision, Second Sight

Second Sight gains FDA nod for retinal system that may never be produced

March 5, 2021 By Nancy Crotti

Second Sight Medical  (NSDQ: EYES) today announced that the FDA has approved its Argus 2s retinal prosthesis system, but questions remain about whether it will ever be manufactured. The past year has been tough for Second Sight. The company announced in March 2020 that it would wind down its operations amid the financial shock of […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Featured, Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Implants, Neuromodulation/Neurostimulation, Optical/Ophthalmic, Regulatory/Compliance Tagged With: FDA, Pixium Vision, Second Sight, second-sight-medical

Pixium Vision’s novel Prima chip helps patients see the light

August 30, 2018 By Nancy Crotti

Pixium Vision said today that its Prima miniature wireless photovoltaic sub-retinal implant has been activated in the first five patients. The patients all have severe vision loss from atrophic dry age-related macular degeneration. They are enrolled in a three-year clinical study in France to evaluate the safety and function of the Prima chip in eliciting visual […]

Filed Under: Clinical Trials, Implants, Vision Tagged With: Pixium Vision

Pixium Vision touts 1st use of Prima bionic vision system

January 26, 2018 By Fink Densford

Pixium Vision (EPA:PIX) yesterday announced the first successful trial implantation and activation of its Prima next-generation miniaturized wireless photovoltaic sub-retinal implant, and that the system successfully produced visual perception. With the implantation complete, the patient will begin the re-education phase of the study which includes a six-month and 36-month follow-up, the Paris-based company said. “This first […]

Filed Under: Clinical Trials, Optical/Ophthalmic Tagged With: Pixium Vision

Pixium Vision wins FDA nod for Prima sub-retinal implant study

January 4, 2018 By Fink Densford

Pixium Vision (EPA:PIX) said today it won FDA approval to launch a clinical feasibility trial of its Prima next-gen miniaturized wireless photovoltaic sub-retinal implant designed to treat patients with atrophic dry age-related macular degeneration. The trial of the device, which is slated to be conducted at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, aims ot recruit 5 patients […]

Filed Under: Clinical Trials, Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Optical/Ophthalmic Tagged With: Pixium Vision

Pixium Vision wins French approval for Prima sub-retinal implant study

October 19, 2017 By Fink Densford

Pixium Vision (EPA:PIX) said today it won approval from France’s regulatory agency to launch a feasibility clinical study of its next-gen Prima sub-retinal implant in patients with advanced dry age-related macular degeneration. The Prima system is a next-gen wireless implant with a micro photovoltaic chip designed to be implanted under the retina to convert pulsed near-infra-red invisible […]

Filed Under: Clinical Trials, Optical/Ophthalmic Tagged With: Pixium Vision

7 medtech stories we missed: Feb. 17, 2017

February 17, 2017 By Danielle Kirsh

Several companies released diabetes study results this week, while companies like BioTime closed on their public offerings and Pixium implanted its first bionic eye. Here are 7 medtech stories we missed this week, but were still worth mentioning. 1. Insulet touts glucose control study Insulet Corp. announced the results from its first feasibility study of its Omnipod […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Diabetes, Food & Drug Administration (FDA) Tagged With: BioTime, FlowAid Medical Technologies, Insulet, Medtronic, Pixium Vision, Polyganics, tandemdiabetes, Valeritas

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