Contract developer Minnetronix Medical recently developed and commercialized its own product: MindsEye, which it says is the first minimally invasive deep brain access port. The port addresses an unmet need in the neurology market — certain forms of stroke and cancer cause lesions that are deep in the brain, and removing them can be a very invasive and dangerous process.
Insightec, a company making an ultrasound device that can be used to treat essential tremor, raised $150 million. The company now has a post-money valuation of $1.3 billion.
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Monteris is changing the approach of certain neurosurgery procedures with a laser probe and a different use of MRI imaging.
Throughout his political endeavors thus far, retired Johns Hopkins pediatric neurosurgeon Ben Carson has many in the medical and science fields scratching their heads.
The news this week that the same nerve cells that control our ability to smell can apparently be used to help paralyzed people walk is thrilling stuff. The process that led up to the surgery was years in the making. Here’s an overview. Doctors zeroed in on olfactory nerve cells in the first place because […]
Covidien (COV) announced it will sell its Confluent Surgical line to Integra LifeSciences (IART) probably effective by March 31, 2014, pending regulatory approval. The product line brought in $65 million for the medical devices company in 2012. Integra will pay $235 million for the line, which includes DuraSeal, the first FDA-approved product that provides watertight […]
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Here’s an idea for a surgical procedure that would be right at home as a plot device in a science fiction film long before it receives FDA approval. It combines robot technology with a metal alloy that changes shape at a certain temperature to treat inoperable brain tumors. Three professors from the University of Maryland […]