Executives, digital, operational, and frontline staff from the newly integrated North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust, will welcome both big tech and innovative health tech firms on 27 November. The trust, which integrated in April, is the latest in the NHS to host Elevate, a programme of h
Boston Scientific Corporation has received FDA 510(k) clearance for the SpaceOAR Flex Hydrogel, designed to temporarily create space between the prostate and rectum to reduce the radiation dose delivered to the rectum during prostate cancer radiation therapy. Prostate cancer is the second most commo
Leica Biosystems has announced the acquisition of StatLab Medical Products, a leading provider of pre-analytical consumables and equipment, from Linden Capital Partners and Audax Private Equity. Gustavo Perez-Fernandez, Group Executive Danaher‘s Diagnostics Business, and President, Leica Biosystems
Giovanna Forte, Chief Executive Officer of award-winning specimen collection company Forte Medical expresses exasperation with the challenges of raising secure investment to turn innovative medical device concepts into widely-adopted practice in the NHS. In the early 2000s, I met Marc Koska, invento
Chris Whitehouse, a political consultant and expert on medical technology policy and regulation at Whitehouse Communications, and a Trustee of the Bios Centre for bioethics shares the latest list of medical devices being assessed for inclusion in the “Core List” of products available to the NHS in E
An international coalition of vascular access surgeons, nephrologists, researchers and industry partners has launched the Fight Fibrin Sheath (FFS) campaign, a clinician-led action group working collaboratively to advance research, education and innovation relating to fibrin sheath formation, and to
ZEISS Medical Technology has announced the expansion of its retinal imaging portfolio with the ZEISS ALTA DUO fully automated, compact, multimodal imaging solution. The new device combines OCT and fundus photography within a single imaging system. Andreas Völker, Head of the Ophthalmology Strategic
Medical devices company Acurable is one of just two UK Medical Devices & Wearables companies named in TIME magazine’s World’s Top HealthTech Companies of 2026 list. At the heart of Acurable is its AcuPebble Technology, a wearable approach to diagnosing sleep apnoea, which the company says is designe
Across the Netherlands, an enhanced emergency response system is taking shape. From railway stations, to airport spaces, supermarkets, and city streets, automated external defibrillators (AEDs) are becoming part of the country’s public safety infrastructure, extending emergency care far beyond hospi
Ciliatech, a medical technology company developing surgical solutions for glaucoma, has announced FDA approval of the company’s Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) application to initiate a feasibility study in the US of the INTERCIL Uveal Spacer for glaucoma. The study is expected to enroll appr
Intuitive, a global technology leader in minimally invasive care and the pioneer of robotic-assisted surgery, has announced the CE mark approval of Force Feedback instruments for its da Vinci 5 surgical system, as well as a series of new system enhancements to be rolled out across Europe. Force Fee
In micro manufacturing, the part is small, but the problem is never small. When tolerances are measured in microns, when features are too delicate to touch, and when “variation” becomes a functional risk, you quickly learn a truth that doesn’t get spoken about enough, the most valuable breakthroughs
