The US Food and Drug Administration recently issued updates regarding improvements to its online submissions portal, enhancements to its electronic medical device reporting system, pediatric X-ray guidance, expanded indications for a popular breathing device, and mammogram guidelines; and more news we’re watching.

Despite earlier efforts to restructure, the company is still struggling to meet its revenue targets, and issued a statement suggesting that further measures, including liquidation, may be necessary.

As fluid builds up in the lungs, the “engine” of a patient’s voice is smothered. Medtech Insight spoke to Cordio Medical’s CEO about how the company’s smartphone-based software could warn clinicians almost three weeks in advance of decompensation.

Digital tools have long been of interest to pharma for their potential to transform many aspects of drug development, leading to many collaborations between pharma and medtech firms. Here, two companies that have been working together to develop a series of software-based tools for monitoring patients – AstraZeneca and Huma – discuss the value of these partnerships and their potential challenges.

In this one-off podcast, reporter Barnaby Pickering speaks Jérôme Marzinski and Dr Christian Coviello, the CEO and CTO, respectively, of OxSonics, a UK-based start-up which is working on an ultrasound-based technology that has been designed to enhance the potency of oncological drugs.

AstraZeneca has been working with Huma to develop a series of software-based tools for monitoring patients. Medtech Insight spoke to both companies about the value of these partnerships and the potential challenges.