In an 18 to 5 vote earlier today, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee sent the nomination of Stephen M. Hahn, MD, as the next FDA commissioner to the full Senate.Hahn, chief medical executive and professor of radiation oncology a…
VivaLNK, a Silicon Valley company, won the European CE Mark for its VivaLNK multi-vital medical wearable sensor and accompanying software development kit. The reusable device sticks to the patient’s chest and can record ECG waveforms, the respiratory rate, heart rate, RR interval, as well as movement based on a three-axis accelerometer. It we (Read more...)
Hologic has won FDA approval to introduce its 3DQuorum imaging technology to the U.S. market. Powered by the company’s Genius AI analytics platform, the new software reconstructs 3D data captured by a Hologic 3D mammography system to generate so-called “SmartSlices” that are each 6 millimeters in width. During the reconstruction, (Read more...)
The FDA has granted breakthrough device designation to the RightEye Vision System, an oculomotor test to help diagnose Parkinson’s disease, RightEye LLC announced in a press release.Parkinson’s disease is often misdiagnosed; however, research has shown…
PARIS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–SparingVision wins First Prize at EIT European Health Catapult competition.
At the ongoing RSNA conference in Chicago, a gathering of the world’s radiologists, Siemens Healthineers introduced its SOMATOM On.site CT scanner that can be wheeled right into patient rooms for bedside exams. Currently, patients requiring a head CT have to be taken to wherever the scanner is, but the mobility of the SOMATOM On.site allows [ (Read more...)