American Well Gets it Together

House calls might be on the rise again, but not in the form your grandparents remember. American Well, through webcams and telephony, allows physicians to connect with patients online. Physicians make themselves available whenever they have time, with no prior notice. A doctor’s time is billed at $40 per...

Clinical Study Brings iCAD’s Colon CAD Closer to Market

Colon cancer is among the most preventable cancers when caught early. More than 82 million Americans are eligible for colorectal cancer screening. Currently, diagnostics are underutilized due in part to the invasive nature of screening procedures. The most common diagnostic procedures is the oft-dreaded...

[Quick Take] Interview with Dallas Dryden, Director of Sales at PDLabs

PDLabs offers Transdermal Verapamil (TV) 15% Gel, a painless, non-invasive treatment for fibrotic tissue disorders such as Peyronie’s disease. TV 15% has been used to treat over 13,000 patients since 1998. Peyronie’s disease is a connective tissue disorder involving the growth of fibrous plaques...

[Quick Take] Interview with Kirt Kirtland, President & CEO of Starion Instruments

Starion Instruments‘ uses focused thermal energy and pressure to simultaneously seal and divide tissue. By applying direct heat instead of electrical, radio frequency or ultrasonic energy, Starion products can reduce unintended thermal injury, minimize instrument exchange, improve visibility by...

[Quick Take] Interview with William Oravan, Medical Director at Maple Leaf HIFU Co.

Maple Leaf HIFU Co. offers Ablatherm High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) treatment for localized prostate cancer. During the procedure, a probe is placed into the rectum after spinal or epidural anesthesia has been administered. This probe emits a beam of high intensity focused ultrasound. At the point...

Bariatric Surgery Now Safer, Patient Database Reveals

The Michigan Bariatric Surgery Collaborative, a patient database funded by a $700,000 annual grant from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, sheds new light on the safety of bariatric surgery. [The statistics are the first in a three-year project and it may be too early to draw conclusions, warns David Share,...

[Quick Take] Interview with Dan Sade Hochstadter, CEO of Keren Medical

Keren Medical is developing anastomosis suturing technology for minimally invasive surgeries (an anastomosis is an operation to connect two body parts). The company’s flagship product is a patented surgical instrument that allows surgeons to more easily and accurately complete the difficult anastomosis...

Luminex Announces Public Offering, Acquisition Seem Likely

Luminex, developer of xMAP, an open architecture multiplexing technology with applications throughout the life sciences industry, announced yesterday an underwritten public offering of 3,500,000 shares of common stock. Based on a current share price of $20, the offering will raise $70 million. Luminex will...