SYLMAR, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (“Second Sight” or “the Company”) (NASDAQ:EYES), a developer, manufacturer and marketer of implantable visual prosthetics to provide some useful vision to blind patients, today announced that Dr. Robert Greenberg, Chairman, and Will McGuire, President and Chief Executive Officer, will host one-on-one meetings and present at the following conferences this month: Conference: RBC Capital Markets 2016 Global Healthcare Confere
AXINESIS, startup out of Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium, won the European CE Mark to introduce its REAplan arm rehabilitation system. The product is designed to help people with brain injury, such as a stroke, recover motor activity in the upper limbs. The robotic device runs the patient through repetitive movement game-like tasks that involve following […]
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MIAMI — Robust investment by venture capitalists is making up for stagnant government funding for medical research, particularly in the ophthalmic and biotechnology sectors, a speaker told colleagues here.“Necessity is the mother invention. I like to say that prosperity is the father of innovation. We can’t have innovation unless we have a robust economy because we need that money to drive the innovation,” Emmett T. Cunningham Jr., MD, PhD, MPH, said at Angiogenesis, Exudation, and Degeneration 2016.
Just a few days ago we reported on how scientists at UC Davis are using hollow shells of the Hepatitis E virus to safely transport drugs through the digestive system and into the rest of the body. We held a hangout with a couple of the researchers behind the project discussing their latest findings, applications for […]
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The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions today favorably reported a bill requiring manufacturers of reusable medical devices like duodenoscopes to submit cleaning instructions and validation data to the FDA before bringing these de…
Withings, maker of smart scales, activity trackers, wireless blood pressure cuffs, and other devices, has released a new in-app offering to better interpret blood pressure readings. The Hy-Result algorithms were developed at the Georges Pompidou Hospital in Paris to replicate how a physician would study the numbers. In a recent study in Blood Pressure Monitoring Journal, the […]
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