The 2018 EuroPCR meeting in Paris featured new results from clinical trials of coronary stents from Biotronik, Amaranth, Medtronic, MicroPort, and Hexacath.

The Helsinki-based company had expected stroke rehabilitation to be the first FDA-cleared indication for its Navigated Brain Therapy system, but while more data is collected for that program, it is pursuing a 510(k) clearance for NBS to treat major depressive disorder and plans to build a US salesforce to market NBS for therapeutic indications.

Starts & Stops is a regular feature highlighting Medtech Insight editors' picks of noteworthy medtech clinical trial initiations, completions and suspensions the past month or so. Over the last month, 38 new trials started, 17 trial were completed, one trial was "reinitiated," and four trials were terminated or suspended, according to Meddevicetracker.