The Fogarty Institute, a Silicon Valley medtech accelerator, just wrapped up an unconventional partnership with the FDA in which the two swapped ideas about medtech policy and innovation. The takeaway? The FDA's all about helping startups avoid the red tape.
The Fogarty Institute just launched three new startups, all in women's health. The Silicon Valley-based nonprofit helps medical device upstarts get off their feet and avoid the "valley of death."
The future looks bright for the integrated specialty pharmacy model – for health systems, providers, and most importantly, for patients.
As a teenager, Surbhi Sarna, nVision Medical CEO and founder, had complex, repeat ovarian cysts. They were painful and worrisome. They couldn’t be biopsied for fear of spreading cancer, and she said the rest of the diagnostics were so poor she and her doctors basically were left to watch and see if they grew. Now, […]
Last month, MedCity News featured Materna Medical as a medical device company designing a product to prevent pelvic floor damage to a mother, while minimizing vaginal tearing, shortening labor and delivery and reducing stress on a baby as it’s being delivered. While many liked the story on Facebook, many women took to our comments section […]
InPress Technologies, a California-based device startup, has an ambitious plan to solve a potentially fatal problem for pregnant women around the world. Company Co-Founder Jessie Becker said she hopes the InPress device will become the standard of care in the United States to ensure women’s ability to bear children in the future. Plus, she said […]
Materna Medical is at work on a device to help protect the more than 80 percent of women who suffer damage or tearing during childbirth. “The clinical need we’re trying to address is that there’s a tremendous amount of damage that women suffer during childbirth,” Mark Juravic, founder and CEO of the California-based startup, said. That […]
Closing cancer health equity gaps require medical breakthroughs made possible by new funding approaches.
A country physician-turned-innovator has created a device to help physicians resuscitate the more than 10 percent* of babies who are born not breathing. Neonatal is a growing area of global concern and has a lot of room for innovation. Already, nonprofit Helping Babies Breathe, an American Academy of Pediatrics program, educates birth attendants on how to […]
A California-based startup may finally help physicians monitor vital signs for fetuses of obese mothers, starting with heartrate. First Pulse Medical hopes to have the intrauterine device, which is noninvasive to the fetus, cleared with the FDA by the summer of 2014. Right now, physicians use an ultrasound stomach belt to monitor fetal heartrate, which […]
Five startups have been selected to join the incubator program at The Fogarty Institute, an education nonprofit based in Mountain Valley, Calif., that mentors medical innovators. Four out of five of these companies–First Pulse Medical, Materna Medical, InPress Technologies and Medical Cue–are attempting to innovate in the maternity/women’s health field. President and CEO Ann Fyfe […]