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This week, your watch can start alerting you to sleep apnea, a fingertip clip can monitor your daytime blood oxygen, and a robotic exoskeleton can help restore mobility to spinal cord injury patients. But in a refreshing win for actual humans, a large study finds that the surgeon’s hands are just as good as robotic techniques in arthroscopic knee repair. Read More
Despite FDA skepticism, the agency’s Circulatory System Devices Panel advisory committee endorsed Abbott’s TriClip, a transcatheter edge-to-edge repair system intended to treat tricuspid regurgitation. Read More
This edition of interesting device approvals and clearances includes a pulsed field ablation system, a transesophageal echocardiography ultrasound transducer, a digital cytology system that combines deep-learning-based AI, and a deep brain stimulation system. Read More
This edition of Quick Notes looks at the FDA approving devices and systems that detect and/or offer treatment for potential skin cancer, Alzheimer’s, lung fibrosis and diabetic neuropathy. Read More
After an October 2022 advisory committee rejection of its initial genetic test for risk of opioid use disorder (OUD), SOLVD has won FDA approval for a revamped version of its DNA-based AvertD test. Read More
Familiarity with FDA regulations on the agency’s processes for approving drugs and devices is lacking among doctors, but differs by specialty, according to a national survey of physicians conducted by University of California San Francisco (UCSF) researchers. Read More