Diagnostic/Therapeutic Devices

Boston Scientific will acquire Axonics for about $3.7 billion in cash.The companies said on Monday that Axonics had agreed to be bought for $71 a share. Boston Scientific said the deal gave Axonics an equity value of $3.7 billion and an enterprise value of $3.4 billion.Copyright ©2024 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8 Boston Scientific will acquire Axonicsfor about $3.7 billion in cash.The companies said on Monday that Axonics had agreed to be bought for $71 a share.…

The startup tested its technology on primates for several years. The startup tested its technology on primates for several years. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their rightful owners, all materials to their authors. If you are the owner of the content and do not want us to publish your materials, please…

The startup tested its technology on primates for several years. The startup tested its technology on primates for several years. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their rightful owners, all materials to their authors. If you are the owner of the content and do not want us to publish your materials, please…

GE HealthCare Technologies Inc. is making a big bet on an important challenge in healthcare: collecting the disparate data on patients generated by machines and medical records and making it useful to hospitals.In pursuing a software platform that can help hospitals do things like find open beds and identify patients at risk for sepsis, GE HealthCare is taking on tech powerhouses such as Alphabet Inc.’s Google, Amazon.com Inc. and…

General Electric reported strong demand for its power equipment in the fourth quarter. Photo: sebastien salom-gomis/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images…

The Federal Trade Commission filed a complaint against the leading chain of laser vision-correction procedures in the U.S., alleging it lured customers with bait-and-switch advertising that tricked them into believing they could pay less than $300 for LASIK surgery, while actually charging many times that amount to most patients. The vision-correction firm, LCA-Vision Inc., agreed to modify its practices and pay $1.25 million to settle the FTC’s administrative complaint, without admitting or denying the allegations.  An…

LAS VEGAS—The smartphone revolution of the past decade, which reduced the cost of super-efficient processors and tiny cameras, is now enabling innovators to create subtler, more effective tools to assist people with disabilities.Accessibility is among the consumer trends in focus in Las Vegas this week at CES, a global technology bazaar where companies offer clues about what’s coming in the year ahead and beyond. Cosmo Moore, who is 39, is a stay-at-home dad living with a genetic vision…

Attention, CEOs: If not enough people are using your product, maybe animals will. “Have you seen the numbers? They’re staggering,” said Jenna Mutch, a vice president at portable-ultrasound maker Butterfly Network Inc., referring to the rush of Americans who have brought home pets since the pandemic began. About 23 million households did, according to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Spending to pamper them is one of a few areas of…

Do you have trouble hearing what people are saying on TV? There are many ways you can improve the audio if you know where to look. More people have turned on closed captions in recent years, reading along as they watch a movie or show. Most say they have trouble hearing dialogue. That results in part because of the production process, the downside of on-location recording, mumbling actors and creative mixing by the studios. But even clean audio can be harder to hear now that TVs have become so thin. Their embedded…

Elon Musk ‘s neuroscience startup Neuralink Corp. is expected to give a progress report on its brain-implant technology in a highly anticipated streamed event that began Wednesday night. In a tweet last week, the company teased a demo for the event with a short video that slowly spelled out the message “please join us for a show and tell.” Some outside researchers said the video may indicate that a Neuralink device has been used to decode brain signals to type words on a screen, although…