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Abbott Launches Five-Minute POC Rapid COVID-19 Test

Abbott is launching a second test to detect COVID-19. The diagnostics giant announced on 27 March the release of a rapid, point-of-care test that can deliver results within five minutes.

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Tech Transfer Roundup: Universities And Biotechs Continue To Look For Ways To Combat COVID-19

AlloVir/Baylor, Soligenix/Hawaii and CEL-SCI/Georgia ink coronavirus collaborations, but deal-making continues in other areas as well, including Asklepios/UNC teaming on a gene therapy for Angelman syndrome and DeMelle licensing a targeted pancreatic cancer drug from Moffitt, among others.

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FDA Allowing Modifications To Ventilator Equipment To Bolster Supplies During COVID-19 Crisis

The US agency says it will not object to medtech manufacturers making minor modifications to the motors, tubing or software of medical ventilators – or even to pressing CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure) equipment into service to use as ventilators – during the COVID-19 public health emergency.

Topic Coronavirus Medtech

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Telehealth Sees Skyrocketing Demand Amid Regulatory Expansion, Hopes To Last Beyond COVID-19 Crisis

US telehealth companies are seeing skyrocketing demand for devices and services, which offers opportunities and challenges during this COVID-19 crisis.

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Cepheid Nabs First FDA Authorization For Rapid-Response COVID-19 Test

A rapid-response test from Danaher business unit Cepheid will be the first quick COVID-19 diagnostic to reach the US market, the US FDA announced on 21 March.

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‘We’re Not Making Hubcaps’: Why Trump’s Wartime Approach To Manufacturing Medtech For COVID-19

Two Hogan Lovells attorneys say the medical device industry is jittery about President Trump’s 18 March invocation of the Defense Production Act. That’s because the DPA gives the government broad authority to, among other things, order manufacturers to make particular products in a time of great national need. That can be a problem if those companies can’t make complex products like ventilators – or don’t make devices in the first place. After all, “we’re not making hubcaps. We’re making important devices,” Hogan Lovells partner Mike Heyl tells Medtech Insight.Is Making Industry Sweat.

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Execs On The Move: New Research Chief At Biovica; Convergent Dental And XACT Robotics Find Sales VPs

Swedish cancer diagnostics firm Biovica International announces a new R&D director; Convergent Dental, a dental equipment company, and XACT Robotics, a robotics system developer, pick sales veeps; and more.

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