Derived from Strategic Transactions, Elsevier Business Intelligence’s premium source for tracking life sciences deal activity, the Medical Device Deals Update column is a survey of recent medtech M&A, alliance, and financing activity. This month’s column covers deals announced August-October 2013.

Derived from Strategic Transactions, Elsevier Business Intelligence’s premium source for tracking life sciences deal activity, the Recent Financings Of Private Companies column provides a comprehensive monthly review of emerging life science companies that have received venture funding, including companies within the In Vitro Diagnostics, Medical Device, and Pharmaceuticals sector. This month’s column covers deals announced August through September 2013.

This Month's Profile Group: Central Venous Access: Start-Ups Change The Standard Of Care, features profiles of Bio 2 Medical, Houston Medical Robotics, and Mirador Biomedical. Plus these Start-Ups Across Health Care: BioVerys, Clinmet, Eclipse Breast Health Technologies, and Sea Lane Biotechnologies.

During insertion of central venous catheters, physicians may unintentionally advance into an artery rather than the desired vein, an error that can cause serious complications, even death. Mirador Biomedical Inc. aims to improve the safety of central venous access with its Compass platform, battery-powered, pressure-measurement devices that can rapidly detect the difference in pressures between arteries and veins.