US-based medical devices maker Qfix has introduced its new ZiFix Abdominal/Thoracic Motion Control System designed to stimulate shallow breathing for the management of internal body motion caused due to respiration.
Cardinal Health has concluded the purchase of Patient Care, Deep Vein Thrombosis and Nutritional Insufficiency business from Medtronic for a total of $6.1bn.
Patients with hepatitis C in Europe could soon gain access to two new pan-genotypic treatment options after the European Commission issued approval for AbbVie’s Maviret and Gilead’s Vosevi following an accelerated review.
Medication management systems provider Plexus Technology Group (TG) is set to integrate its anaesthesia information management system (AIMS) with medical imaging firm Codonics’ medication safety technology Safe Label System (SLS) for an improved anaesthesia process.
AstraZeneca and Merck & Co have announced a global strategic oncology collaboration to co-develop and co-commercialise the former’s Lynparza and selumetinib for multiple cancer types.
Novo Nordisk’s diabetes drug Victoza is now approved in Europe as the only GLP-1 analogue with a label including prevention of cardiovascular events.
Medtronic’s Canadian subsidiary has launched its new magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) conditional cardiac resynchronisation therapy defibrillators (CRT-Ds)
EU regulators are permitting the use of AstraZeneca’s breast cancer drug Faslodex at an earlier stage of the treatment pathway in patients with certain forms of the disease.
Japan's Takeda Pharmaceutical Company has signed an agreement with US-based nanotechnology provider BioSurfaces to develop new therapeutic devices to treat gastrointestinal (GI) diseases.
US-based Sensus Healthcare has received approval from the China Food and Drug Administration (CFDA) to commercialise its keloid prevention and treatment device, SRT-100. The tool is designed to deliver a precise and calibrated dose of superficial radiation therapy to ensure a skin deep and safe treatment for patients. The low-dose radiation is intended to destroy keloid-causing non-malignant tumour cells, basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma without the use of anaesthesia, risk of infection, scarring or the need for reconstructive plastic surgery. Sensus intends to introduce SRT-100 into the country’s market in the fourth quarter of this year through its Chinese partner Chindex Medical, which is a division of Fosun Pharma International. The device will focus on prevention and treatment of keloids associated with Cesarean sections (C-sections). Sensus Healthcare CEO Joe Sardano said: “CFDA clearance of the SRT-100 for the treatment and prevention of keloids is an important milestone for ...
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