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Medtronic Received CE Mark for its Next Generation Micra Leadless Pacing Systems On January 5, 2024, Medtronic announced that the Micra AV2 and Micra VR2, the next generation of its industry-leading tiny, leadless pacemakers, earned the CE (Conformité Européenne) Mark. The world's tiniest pacemakers, the rMic...

Lutikizumab Showed Positive Results in a Phase II Trial of Adults with Moderate to Severe Hidradenitis Suppurativa as Program Advances to Phase III AbbVie has reported the results of Phase II trials indicating that adults experiencing moderate to severe hidradenitis suppurativa, and who had previously not respon...

Cytokinetics Announces Positive Results From SEQUOIA-HCM, the Pivotal Phase III Clinical Trial of Aficamten in Patients With Obstructive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Cytokinetics, Incorporated released favorable top-line findings from the SEQUOIA-HCM trial (Safety, Efficacy, and Quantitative Understanding of Obst...

ImPact Biotech Receives FDA Clearance of IND Application for Padeliporfin VTP in Pancreatic Cancer ImPact Biotech, a biotechnology company in its clinical stage dedicated to advancing Padeliporfin Vascular Targeted Photodynamic (VTP) therapy for various solid tumors, announced on December 20, 2023, that the U.S....

Eisai Submits Marketing Authorization Application In Japan for Anticancer Agent Tasurgratinib For Biliary Tract Cancer With FGFR2 Gene Fusion Eisai Co., Ltd. has officially submitted a request for marketing authorization in Japan for tasurgratinib succinate, its internally developed tyrosine kinase inhibitor tar...

Merck and Moderna Initiate INTerpath-002, a Phase III Study Evaluating V940 in Combination with KEYTRUDA for Adjuvant Treatment of Patients with Certain Types of Resected NSCLC Merck (also known as MSD outside the United States and Canada) and Moderna, Inc. have commenced the INTerpath-002 trial—a crucial Phase ...

FDA Cleared Oral Device for Severe Sleep Apnea From Vivos Therapeutics On November 29, 2023, Vivos Therapeutics announced that it received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for Vivos’s removable CARE (Complete Airway Repositioning and Expansion) oral appliances developed for treat...

AskBio Announces First Patient Randomized in Phase 1 Trial of AB-1005 Gene Therapy for Multiple System Atrophy-Parkinsonian Type Asklepios BioPharmaceutical, Inc., a gene therapy firm fully owned and independently operated under Bayer AG, announced the initiation of the Phase I REGENERATE MSA-101 clinical trial ...

GE HealthCare and Masimo Collaborated on Patient Monitoring Tech On November 8, 2023, GE HealthCare and Masimo announced a joint agreement to integrate patient monitoring technologies.  The goal of the partnership is to incorporate Masimo Signal Extraction Technology (SET) pulse oximetry into GE HealthCa...

SIBIONICS Received CE Mark for Its Ground-breaking GS1 Continuous Glucose Monitoring System On November 01, 2023, SIBIONICS, the world's third-largest Continuous Glucose Monitoring System (CGM) brand, received the CE Mark for its revolutionary GS1 CGM.  This significant milestone marks a momentous achiev...