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Devices & Diagnostics

FDA grants Neuros Medical IDE approval to conduct clinical trial for pain management technology for amputees

Neuros Medical, a Cleveland-based medical device company, received an FDA investigational device exemption approval to begin a clinical study on its technology for intractable limb pain management for amputees. According to the company website, the Altius System High Frequency Nerve Block technology “consists of an electrode (also known as a lead) placed around a peripheral […]

Devices & Diagnostics

Want small business funding from DARPA? 5 application tips from the program’s director

The Department of Health and Human Services isn’t the only federal agency interested in funding medical research. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Department of Defense’s primary innovation engine that’s responsible for developing new technologies for use by the military, also frequently undertakes project in biology, medicine and neuroscience. Recently funded project have included a […]

Devices & Diagnostics

‘World’s smallest heart pump’ company lands big government contract with VA

The product Abiomed (ABMD) has deemed to be the “world’s smallest heart pump” will be included on the Veterans Affairs‘ Federal Supply Schedule. The Danvers, Mass.-based announced today it’s landed a federal contract to make its Impella platform available through an automated online database to about 169 VA’s facilities and 42 Department of Defense hospitals in […]