Salvia Bioelectronics migraine therapy may offer alternative to drugs
Salvia Bioelectronics, a Dutch neurostimulation company targeting chronic migraines, has raised €26m from new and existing investors in a Series…
24 Sep 2020
iFixit: how uncaging equipment repair could transform med tech
Earlier this year, iFixit announced a surprising decision: the company was turning its focus to medical devices. A wiki-based site known for its consumer repair guides, the iFixit site has…
23 Sep 2020
The UK’s contact-tracing apps: why the long wait?
A new Covid-19 contact-tracing app developed by NHSX will finally launch across England and Wales on 24 September, over six months after the UK first entered lockdown. Scotland launched its…
22 Sep 2020
CureApp: could digital therapeutics be a lifeline for NASH patients?
At the end of June, the frontrunner in the race to develop and commercialise a drug for non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), a common, lifestyle-related liver disease with no approved therapies, Intercept’s obeticholic…
21 Sep 2020
Theragnostics and Summit Biomedical partner on cancer diagnostics
Worldwide, over 450,000 cases of oral cancer are diagnosed each year and, in many places, the incidence rate of oral cancer is increasing. Oral cancer detection is estimated to be…
17 Sep 2020
A race to the bottom: how AI encodes racial discrimination within medicine
Algorithms and artificial intelligence (AI) are used throughout medicine to assess individual patient risk and guide clinical decisions. From matching organ donation to helping decide how a person should give…
16 Sep 2020
Design Partners Q&A: a gamified challenge to the medtech industry
The video gaming industry is one of the biggest in the world, worth an estimated $160bn and expected to reach $300bn by 2025, and a link between gaming and surgical…