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The Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has announced plans to overhaul the regulatory system for medical devices in the country to increase patient safety.

Late last year, research by the University of Chicago revealed that air pollution could be reducing global life expectancy rates by an average of 1.8 years per person. These figures would make air pollution the world's deadliest killer.

US Senators Pat Toomey and Amy Klobuchar have introduced bipartisan legislation to repeal medical device tax across the country.

Compliance and enforcement actions by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have dramatically declined under the Trump administration, with medical devices seeing the steepest drop, according to a new report.

An experimental device made from layered filter paper is helping Rice University bioengineers study calcifying heart diseases. The filter paper is structured in a way that mimics the layering of aortic heart valves, recreating the means by which cells spread through cardiac tissue in a laboratory setting. It may not look much like a heart valve, but in practice it simulates the proliferation process in the same way.

Sales skills in the medical device sector face numerate challenges, from changing regulatory environments and buying methods to increased complexity of the technology in question. Now, the business consultancy Huthwaite International is trying to find answers.

Royal Philips has introduced the new HeartStart Intrepid monitor/defibrillator to assess and treat patients in medical emergencies across pre-hospital and hospital settings.

Research and development (R&D) in liquid biopsy is increasingly being funded by both public and private sectors due to its promising features such as early detection of cancer tumour, new lesion characterisation and identification of cancer drug target.

Liquid biopsy, a minimally invasive cancer diagnostic tool, has gained momentum in the last five years due to its advantages over the archaic painful procedure of solid tumour biopsy.

The US Government, industry, academia and radiology societies have worked together to publish a report that provides a blueprint for translational research on artificial intelligence (AI) in medical imaging.