Ocular Therapeutix (NSDQ:OCUL) said today that it dosed the first patient in a study of its OTX-TKI tyrosine kinase inhibitor implant. The Phase I trial is slated to assess the bioresorbable device’s safety, durability and tolerability in people with wet age-related macular degeneration. The company’s investigational product is a bioresorbable hydrogel fiber implant formulated with a […]
BioCorRx wins $5.6m grant for sustained release naltrexone implant
BioCorRx (OTC:BICX) announced this month that it won a two-year grant from the NIH’s National Institute on Drug Abuse to support the development of its sustained release naltrexone implant for the treatment of opioid use disorder. The grant includes $2.8 million for Feb. 1, 2019 to Jan. 31, 2020, followed by $2.8 million for the second […]
Senseonics touts first U.S. trial implant of 180-day CGM
Senseonics (NYSE:SENS) said yesterday that its Eversense XL 180-day continuous glucose sensor was implanted into the first participant of a trial designed to support a pre-market application to the FDA. The company’s 180-patient Promise trial is slated to study the safety and efficacy of the Eversense device in people with diabetes over 180 days. Senseonics also […]
Reva touts first implant of Fantom Encore bioresorbable scaffold in Italy
Reva Medical (ASX:RVA) touted this week the first implant of its newly-launched Fantom Encore bioresorbable scaffold in Italy. The company’s third-generation coronary bioresorbable scaffold features a thin strut profile and Reva’s Tyrocore polymer. “The patient I treated today was young, only 53 years old, and a perfect candidate for bioresorbable scaffolds,” Antonio Colombo of the Columbus […]
Senseonics reports mixed Q3 results
Shares in Senseonics (NYSE:SENS) fell today after the medical device maker missed EPS expectations but met sales estimates on Wall Street with its third quarter financial results. The Germantown, Md.-based company posted a net loss of -$31.9 million on sales of $5.2 million for the 3 months ended Sept. 30. Quarterly net losses were up 83% on […]
Ocular Therapeutix shares fall after Q3 earnings miss
Shares in Ocular Therapeutix (NSDQ:OCUL) fell today after the company missed EPS estimates on Wall Street with its third-quarter financial results. The Bedford, Mass.-based company posted a net loss of -$15 million on sales of $498,000 for the 3 months ended Sept. 30. Sales for the quarter were down -5% compared with the same period last year. Earnings […]
Senseonics wins another FDA approval for its implantable CGM
Senseonics (NYSE:SENS) said this week that it won another FDA approval for its implantable continuous glucose monitoring system, giving nurse practitioners and physicians assistants the ability to implant and remove the Eversense device. When the product was first approved by the FDA in June, only trained physicians were allowed to conduct the sensor insertion and removal […]
MicroPort’s drug-eluting stent performs well in European study
MicroPort Scientific’s Firehawk rapamycin target eluting coronary stent performed comparably to Abbott’s Xience stent family in a study just published in The Lancet. The TARGET AC multi-center, randomized controlled trial enrolled 1,653 patients at 21 clinical study sites in Europe. Firehawk met the trial’s non-inferiority primary endpoint of target lesion failure rate at 12 months of 6.1% versus […]
Medtech stories we missed this week: August 3, 2018
From Esaote launching its new ultrasound device to Nipro’s Infraredx launching in Japan, here are seven medtech stories we missed this week but thought were still worth mentioning. 1. Esaote launches new ultrasound devices Esaote announced in an Aug. 2 press release that it has launched its new MyLab X7, MyLab X6 and MyLab X5 ultrasound systems. […]
Intersect ENT shares tumble on Q2 results
Shares in Intersect ENT (NSDQ:XENT) fell today after the medical device maker missed sales expectations on Wall Street with its second-quarter financial results. The Menlo Park, Calif.-based company posted a net loss of -$4.2 million on sales of $26.3 million for the 3 months ended June 30, for sales growth of 9.7% compared with the same […]
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