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NASS 2020: Medtronic Announces First Patient Implant With InterStim Micro, Adaptix Interbody System Launch

 
• By Marion Webb

Medtronic’s next-generation InterStim Micro system for overactive bladder is more competitive with Axionics’ r-SNM system, according to an analyst. Medtronic continues to innovate as its former CEO announces retirement.

3D illustration of Spine - Part of Human Skeleton.

Medtronic plc kicked off this year’s virtual North American Spine Society (NASS) conference with clinical trial news on its next-generation InterStim Micro sacral neuromodulation (SNM) device for overactive bladder, the launch of the first 3-D printed titanium implant, and announced the final exit of former long-time CEO Omar Ishrak.

Medtronic announced on 6 October, the first day of the four-day NASS meeting, that the first patient has been treated in the post-market ELITE study to evaluate the safety...

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• By Marion Webb

Medtech Insight spoke with Hubert Martens, CEO of Netherlands-based neuromodulation company Salvia Bioelectronics, about the company’s innovative implant for treating chronic migraines, ongoing clinical trials and plans for US clinical trials and commercialization.

First Alzheimer’s Disease Diagnostic Blood Test Cleared By FDA

 
• By Natasha Barrow

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Synchron And Apple Team Up To Use ‘Mind-Thought Connection’ To Control iPhones, iPads

 
• By Marion Webb

Apple and Synchron are teaming up to develop technologies that will one day allow people who can’t use their hands or voice to control iPhones, iPads and other Apple devices by using only their thoughts.

Axoft Starts Commercializing Soft BCI-Enabling Materials For R&D Use, Aims To Rewrite BCI Playbook

 
• By Marion Webb

After publishing encouraging results from first-in-human trials of its brain-computer interface, Axoft announced plans to sell its BCI-enabling material Fleuron to researchers and private organizations for R&D use. The company sees this as a revenue stream and feedback loop to refine its BCI platform designed for safer, longer-lasting brain implants.

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Abbott Announces FDA Approval Of Tendyne Transcatheter Mitral Valve Replacement System

 
• By Marion Webb

Abbott received the US FDA nod for its Tendyne system, offering a minimally invasive alternative to replace the valves of patients with severe mitral valve disease who are at risk for open-heart surgery.

SAGA Diagnostics Launches Early Breast Cancer MRD Detection Test In US

 
• By Natasha Barrow

SAGA Diagnostics has launched its breast cancer residual and recurrence detection test – Pathlight – in the US. The test’s ultrahigh sensitivity and specificity is rare to see in oncology, the company claimed.

FDA Rebukes Four Companies, Including One Overseas, For Procedural Failures

 
• By Brian Bossetta

The US FDA’s device center sent warning letters to three domestic device manufacturers and one German firm for failing to adhere to protocol on several issues.