Noble this week launched its connected device platform, AdhereIT, to provide people that use auto-injectors with real-time feedback regarding their injection. Users can attach the AdhereIT system to an auto-injector training device or a commercial product, Noble reported. The platform can detect when the auto-injector makes contact with a user’s skin and the time when an […]
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Propeller Health touts investment from McKesson Ventures
Building on a $20 million funding round announced last month, Propeller Health said today that it landed an investment of an undisclosed amount from McKesson Ventures. The company is looking to expand its digital therapeutics business beyond devices that manage the treatment of chronic respiratory diseases. Propeller noted that it’s interested in exploring opportunities in […]
Researchers deliver cardiac stem cell therapy in preclinical trial using refillable patch
Researchers have developed a small device designed to halt the effects of a heart attack by delivering a stem cell therapy directly to damaged cardiac tissue. In a study published in Nature Biomedical Engineering, researchers from Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the National University of Ireland Galway and Trinity College Dublin reported that the […]
Noble aims to put patients at ease with auto-injector training devices
In the early days of auto-injectors, people learned how to use their devices by practicing with the skin of an orange, according to Noble‘s research manager, Joe Reynolds. “The rationale was ‘Well, let’s teach patients how to penetrate a skin-like membrane into a soft tissue to replicate what the human body would be like,’” he […]
Precision NanoSystems raises $6m to fund nanomedicine manufacturing tech
Vancouver-based Precision NanoSystems said today that it closed a $6m Series B round, with investments from 5AM Ventures, Telegraph Hill Partners and Rising Tide Fund. The company is slated to use its newly-acquired funds to support the expansion of its services, including its nanomedicine manufacturing platform, NanoAssemblr. Precision NanoSystems’ technology is designed to enable the […]
AcelRx tackles acute pain with sublingual drug-delivery tech
While pain medicine specialist Dr. Pamela Palmer was working on the West Coast in the early 2000’s, she noticed something peculiar was happening to patients undergoing surgery – many who survived their procedures were dying of opioid overdoses as a result of patient-controlled drug pumps. “The nurse has to program a number of parameters into […]
Beta Bionics taps Senseonics’ implantable glucose monitor for artificial pancreas
Senseonics‘ (NYSE:SENS) said today that it inked a deal to integrate glucose data from its Eversense continuous glucose monitoring system into Beta Bionics‘ investigational iLet bionic pancreas. According to the terms of the development agreement, Beta Bionics and Senseonics will work together to combine the two systems in the hopes of driving insulin and glucagon […]
Hospira issues nationwide recall for opioid overdose reversal drug
Pfizer‘s (NYSE:PFE) Hospira unit this week voluntarily recalled two lots of a drug used to reverse the course of an opioid overdose. The company’s naloxone injection, sold in its Carpuject single-use cartridge syringe, was recalled due to the potential presence of embedded and loose particulate matter in the plunger. Hospira specifically warned that products from lots 72680LL and 76510LL […]
BD partners with Helmer Scientific to launch drug-dispensing system for refrigerated meds
Becton Dickinson (NYSE: BDX) said today that it’s teaming up with Helmer Scientific to launch a medical-grade refrigerated solution that automatically dispenses medications. Automated medication dispensing has been a norm in the industry for decades, BD noted, but there hasn’t been a solution that securely dispenses refrigerated drugs. The two companies have co-developed a temperature monitoring system […]
Medtech veteran Mir Imran wants to replace injections with the ‘robotic pill’
Companies have tried for decades to deliver protein-based drugs orally. Can Mir Imran and his company’s robotic pill succeed where so many have failed? Mir Imran has been building medical device companies for 40 years. Perhaps known best for his work on the first FDA-approved implantable cardioverter defibrillator, Imran’s model is to identify big, unsolved […]