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Starts & Stops: Check-Cap Starts US Trial; Venous Valve Study Begins; CorMatrix Looks At ‘Living’ Tricuspid Valve

 
• By Reed Miller

Starts & Stops compiles all the clinical trial announcements, initiations, completions and suspensions tracked by MedDeviceTracker. This edition covers trial announcements from Feb. 11 through Feb. 24, including announcements from CorMatrix Cardiovascular, Hancock Jaffe Laboratories, Toray Industries, Spectral Medical, GI Dynamics, and Check-Cap.

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[Editors Note: Starts & Stops is Medtech Insight’s regular review of important medical device trial announcements as tracked by Informa’s MedDeviceTracker. Click here to request a demonstration. For an archive of previous Starts & Stops and Results Recap, MTI's regular updates on trial outcomes, visit the Tracking Trials page.]

The Institutional Review Board at the New York University School of Medicine has granted Check-Cap approval to begin a US pilot study of C-Scan, a preparation-free ingestible scanning capsule...

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