Chris Whitehouse, a political consultant and expert on medical technology policy and regulation at Whitehouse Communications, an advisor to MedTech suppliers, chair of the Urology Trade Association, and governor of the Anscombe Bioethics Centre, highlights a major step in making the NHS a digital fi
Montagu has announced its intention to create a ‘world-leading’ medical devices supplier by supporting the merger of Tyber Medical, Intech and Resolve Surgical Technologies. As part of the transaction, Montagu entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Tyber Medical, an innovative medical device
Pioneering surgical training technology businesses, Inovus Medical and UpSurgeOn, have announced a global strategic partnership that stands to enhance access to high quality surgical training for thousands of surgeons across the globe. The partnership was unveiled at the opening session of the Inter
Diagnosing simultaneous infections of multiple respiratory viruses is challenging. Researchers from Incheon National University (INU) in Korea have now addressed this issue by developing a TwinDemic Detection (TDD) system, a point-of-care diagnostic tool that leverages a novel, non-enzymatic signal
ZEISS Medical Technology has announced that its MEL 90 device has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), giving the excimer laser technology simultaneous approval for all three major indications, including myopia, hyperopia and mixed astigmatism (a condition where both h
The company says the new technology will transform doctor-patient consultations saving clinicians time and reducing the burden of administration Dictate.IT, part of Clanwilliam, a global healthcare technology and services group, has added an AI-powered clinical assistant to its market leading clinic
Medtronic has announced CE Mark approval in the European Union and the United Kingdom for its BrainSense Adaptive deep brain stimulation (aDBS) and BrainSense Electrode Identifier (EI), having achieved the standards required by the EU Medical Device Regulation (MDR). In addition, the first programmi
Chris Whitehouse, a political consultant and expert on medical technology policy and regulation at Whitehouse Communications, an advisor to MedTech suppliers, chair of the Urology Trade Association, and governor of the Anscombe Bioethics Centre, looks at some of the names appearing on the New Year’s
Merck, a leading science and technology company, has launched a beta version of M-Trust, a secure cyber-physical trust platform, created to help solve the growing issues of product safety, traceability and counterfeiting. Laura Matz, Chief Science & Technology Officer of Merck said: “As expectations
42 Technology (42T) announced the launch of a new, video-capable medical device at CES 2025 this week designed to improve the speed and safety of patient intubation during surgery and emergency care. LARi is a low-cost, single-use video stylet that works exactly like conventional intubation stylets
Indica Labs, a leader in AI-powered digital pathology, has announced that the Institute of Tissue Medicine and Pathology at the University of Bern, a leading university based pathology institute in Switzerland, has selected HALO AP for the Institute’s first-in-country digital pathology deployment in
A groundbreaking new imaging approach developed by researchers at Heriot-Watt University has shown ‘extremely encouraging’ results in early-stage clinical trials on prostate cancer at the Western General Hospital in Edinburgh, Scotland. The ongoing clinical trial demonstrated an initial 94% sensitiv
