UConn biomedical engineers are touting a wirelessly controlled “smart” bandage and corresponding platform for delivering medications to chronic, non-healing wounds. UConn’s School of Dental Medicine, School of Medicine and School of Engineering comprise the biomedical engineering department, which contributed to developing the smart bandage. Ali Tamayol, an associate professor at UConn, led the development of […]
Could this handheld 3D bioink printer improve wound healing?
The University of Toronto is touting a new handheld 3D printer that is capable of depositing sheets of skin to cover burn wounds and accelerate the healing process. A study, led by Richard Cheng under the supervision of Axel Guenther, published in Biofabrication revealed that the 3D printer completed successful in-vivo trials on full-thickness wounds, […]
Wearable insulin delivery device maker Valeritas files for Chapter 11, selling company
Valeritas (NSDQ:VLRX) announced that the company and its subsidiaries filed voluntary petitions for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, having agreed to sell substantially all of the business to Zealand Pharma (CPH:ZEAL). The agreement is slated to provide a total cash consideration of $23 million along with certain liabilities related to the ongoing business. Once the acquisition is completed, Zealand plans […]
Senseonics, Companion Medical to integrate sensor glucose and insulin data
Senseonics (NYSE:SENS) will integrate its Eversense continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) system’s real-time glucose data with Companion Medical‘s InPen smart insulin delivery system. The agreement between Senseonics and Companion, announced today, is slated to bring the technologies together to allow real-time glucose data to be continuously incorporated into the InPen insulin system. This is designed to allow for more […]
Contura wins FDA premarket approval for hydrogel injection
Contura announced that it won FDA premarket approval for its Bulkamid hydrogel injection for treating stress urinary incontinence (SUI). Bulkamid is Contura’s proprietary device designed for treating SUI due to intrinsic sphincter deficiency in adult women with SUI or stress predominant mixed incontinence. According to a news release, the product is currently marketed in more […]
Teleflex recalls certain Arrow epidural catheterization kits in Europe
Teleflex (NYSE:TFX) subsidiary Arrow issued an urgent field safety notice in Europe to warn of failures with the loss of resistance (LOR) syringes including in epidural catheterization kits. The company received complaints regarding the syringes in the kits that revealed dural puncture with some also requiring a blood patch. An inadvertent dural puncture may lead […]
Rani Therapeutics could go the IPO route
Rani Therapeutics is reportedly moving forward with an early-stage efficacy and safety study for its robotic pills and may be on its way toward the possibility of an IPO. According to a report in Endpoints News, Rani, led by CEO Mir Imran who shared the story on LinkedIn, revealed that its RaniPill performed as expected […]
Vascular Therapies closes $17.3m financing
Vascular Therapies announced that it closed an upsized private funding round worth more than $17 million with contributions from new and existing investors. The Cresskill, N.J.–based clinical-stage biopharma company originally targeted $15 million for the financing, but finished with a total of $17.3 million raised. Get the full story at our sister site, MassDevice.
Tandem Diabetes Care launches t:slim X2 with Control-IQ in U.S.
Tandem Diabetes Care (NSDQ:TNDM) announced today that it began the U.S. commercial launch of its t:slim X2 insulin pump with Control-IQ advanced hybrid closed-loop technology. In December, the San Diego-based company announced that the FDA cleared the t:slim X2 insulin pump and Control-IQ technology for controlling Type 1 diabetes, touting it as the first and […]
7 medtech advances to improve diabetes treatment
Medtech and pharmaceutical companies have made several important strides over the past year when it comes to improving diabetes treatment. Multiple treatments and technologies have cleared regulatory hurdles and are now hitting the market and making the process of living with diabetes that much more manageable. Several different styles of therapy and devices have come […]
