Houston Methodist soon will open the Paula and Joseph C. “Rusty” Walter III Tower, a 22-story, $700 million patient tower housing new beds and state-of-the-art technology to better serve the community and the institution’s growing patient population. The nationally-ranked Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center and Houston Methodist Neurological Institute will move into the new building. Cardiovascular surgeons, cardiologists, …

MiMedx Group announced that it received regulatory approval from the Therapeutics Goods Administration (TGA) in Australia to market and sell a broad array of the Company’s dehydrated Human Amnion/Chorion Membrane (dHACM) products. This includes EpiFix, AmnioFix, EpiBurn, AmnioFix Injectable, and AmnioFix Wrap, among others. MiMedx products are classified as a Biological in Australia and are regulated by the TGA, a …

NuVasive and Siemens Healthineers today announced a strategic partnership focused on technology development, marketing and commercial activities to advance clinical outcomes in minimally invasive spine surgery. NuVasive is an innovation leader in spine health technology, focused on transforming spine surgery with minimally disruptive, predictable and clinically reproducible procedurally-integrated solutions, while Siemens Healthineers offers surgeons a broad portfolio of imaging systems …

Boston Scientific Corporation announced it has signed an agreement to acquire VENITI, Inc., a privately-held company in Fremont, California which has developed and commercialized the VICI VENOUS STENT® System for treating venous obstructive disease. Boston Scientific has been an investor in VENITI since 2016 and currently owns 25 percent of the company. The transaction price for the remaining stake consists of $108 million up-front cash, as …

CHA-Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center (CHA-HPMC), a subsidiary of CHA Bio Group (a Korea-based global leader in bio-technology and health care) has introduced its latest addition, da Vinci Xi Surgical System. CHA-HPMC will be the first community medical center in the area (Hollywood, Korea Town, Los Feliz, and Silver Lake) to offer this advanced surgical system, which optimizes clinical outcomes and patient experience …

Abbott announced it has initiated a pivotal clinical study in the U.S. of its Tendyne Transcatheter Mitral Valve Replacement (TMVR) system for the treatment of mitral regurgitation. The trial will evaluate the safety and efficacy of the treatment in patients suffering from mitral regurgitation (MR), known as a leaky heart valve. The investigational Tendyne device is the first and only …

Welltower Inc. and ProMedica announced the successful close of their joint venture acquisition of Quality Care Properties, Inc. and its principal tenants, HCR ManorCare and Arden Courts, the nation’s second largest provider of post-acute services and long-term care. “Together with ProMedica, one of the largest and most innovative health systems in the U.S., this acquisition of HCR ManorCare provides us …

Perflow Medical, an Israeli-based medical device company that develops innovative tools for neurovascular interventions, announces the first clinical cases of the Cascade Dynamic Non-Occlusive Remodeling Net earlier this month by Dr. Alejandro Tomasselo at Hospital Vall d’Hebron in Barcelona, Spain. The Cascade Net is the latest addition to the Perflow’s portfolio of novel neurovascular devices based on the patent-protected CEREBRAL …

Medical device company Vallum Corporation announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a polyetheretherketone (PEEK) spine vertebral body Inter-fusion device that uses the PEEKplus nanotextured surface drawn by Vallum’s proprietary and patented accelerated neutral atomic beam (ANAB) technology . PEEKplus is the first and only FDA approved PEEK interbody device nanotextured surface. Vallum’s PEEKplus nanotextured surface …

Ibex Medical Analytics, a pioneering developer of AI-powered cancer diagnostics, is announcing its research collaboration with UPMC and digital pathology expert Dr. Liron Pantanowitz, Professor of Pathology and Biomedical Informatics and Vice Chairman of Pathology Informatics at UPMC Shadyside. In this collaboration, UPMC and Ibex will apply the Ibex Second Read (SR) system on prostate core needle biopsies (PCNBs) from …