Surgery and Surgical Robotics
Intuitive Surgical Invests $15m Into Lung Cancer Startup
Intuitive Surgical has struck a deal with lung disease technology firm Broncus Medical. The multipart agreement includes a $15 million investment, technology development collaboration and a licensing deal. Broncus has built its business upon a portfolio of technology platforms that support the diagnosis of lung cancer and treatment of emphysema. These devices provide image guidance to help…
Read MorePositive Clinical Data for Penny-Sized Bioelectronic Implant
SetPoint Medical’s open-label study supports the use of the company’s bioelectronic therapy for Crohn’s Disease. The Valencia,CA-based company’s study was conducted at five European sites and included 16 patients with moderate to severe Crohn’s Disease with inadequate responses to tumor necrosis factor (TNF) antagonist drugs and other non-TNF targeted biologic agents. The data, presented…
Read MoreInsightec’s MR-Guided Focused Ultrasound Wins Medicare Coverage in 10 States
INSIGHTEC®, a global medical technology innovator of incisionless surgery, today announced that Medicare benefit coverage is available to patients in 10 U.S. states for MR-guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS) for the treatment of essential tremor (ET). Six more states will follow on July 1, 2018. Additional Medicare Administrative Contractors (MAC) have issued positive Draft Local Coverage Determination…
Read MoreMIT Team Creates Wireless System to Power Implanted Devices
Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have collaborated with local Brigham and Women’s Hospital to create a new system that can wirelessly power and communicate with medical devices inside the body. The new In Vivo Networking (IVN) system employs radio frequency waves to power implanted devices. This is expected to eliminate the need…
Read MoreFDA Approves First Artificial Iris
A German company has become the first to score FDA approval for a stand-alone prosthetic iris in the United States. The agency said Wednesday afternoon that it approved the CustomFlex Artificial Iris, made by Erlangen, Germany-based HumanOptics. The device, which is surgically implanted, is approved to treat adults and children whose iris is completely missing or damaged…
Read MoreTransEnterix Announces FDA Clearance for Expanded Indications for Senhance Surgical System
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.–TransEnterix, Inc. (NYSE American:TRXC), a medical device company that is digitizing the interface between the surgeon and the patient to improve minimally invasive surgery, today announced that the Company has received FDA 510(k) clearance for expanded indications of its Senhance Surgical System. The Company received FDA 510(k) clearance for laparoscopic inguinal hernia…
Read MoreNext Generation Stent Retriever Receives 510(k) Clearance
CERENOVUS, part of the Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices Companies, announced today it has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for EMBOTRAP II Revascularization Device, a next generation stent retriever used to capture and remove life-threatening blood clots from the brain following an ischemic stroke. Stroke strikes nearly 800,000 Americans…
Read MoreFirst-in-World Robot-Assisted Spinal Surgery Performed by Penn Neurosurgeons and Otolaryngologists
Noah Pernikoff is back to his life in New York City after becoming the first patient in the world to undergo a complex three-part, robotic-assisted surgery. The robotic arms made it possible for the multidisciplinary team at Penn to successfully remove a rare tumor from Noah’s neck, where the skull meets the spine. The ground breaking…
Read MoreWorld’s first total penis and scrotum transplant performed at Johns Hopkins
Many soldiers returning from combat bear visible scars, or even lost limbs, caused by blasts from improvised explosive devices, or IEDs. Some servicemen also return with debilitating hidden injuries—the loss of all or part of their genitals. The Johns Hopkins reconstructive surgery team that performed the country’s first bilateral arm transplant in a wounded warrior…
Read MoreMiniature Human Brains Implanted in Mice Skulls Grow for Months
The mice behaved just like others of their kind, as far as scientists could tell, and they also looked the same — except for the human mini brain that had been implanted into each rodent’s own cortex, made visible by a little clear cover replacing part of their skull. The report on Monday by scientists…
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