Month: January 2026

Medtech 2026: AI acceleration, regulatory changes, and economic shifts promise to reshape the industry landscape amid an innovation surge.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has updated its webpage on vaccines and autism with new claims undermining the Public Health Agency’s longtime position that vaccines do not cause the condition — garnering swift condemnation from public health advocates and the Senate’s top healthcare legislator.

Hundreds of industry leaders have signed a letter to FDA Director Marty Makary, M.D., about the importance of having a predictable Regulatory Agency (United States Food and Drug Administration – FDA), citing a survey in which 82% of biopharma respondents said they were concerned about the FDA’s ability to function.

Macrophage-toxic bacteria from patients with ulcerative colitis worsen gut inflammation in mice

Researchers take a step toward limb regeneration: In a significant step toward full-limb regeneration, researchers at Texas A&M University have identified a fibroblast growth factor as a key protein that can regenerate an entire finger joint, including soft tissue. “Our expectation is that if we can figure out all the factors that regenerate a finger, then we could apply those factors anywhere on the rest of the arm, or even a leg, and regrow a limb,” said Assistant Professor Lindsay Dawson.

During the second meeting of the US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Digital Health Advisory Committee (DHAC), members of the panel seemed shocked and, at times, lost for words when grappling with the Agency’s discussion questions surrounding the potential regulation of generative Artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled digital mental health medical.

Costa Rica has asked the United States to avoid medical device tariffs as the country becomes a manufacturing hotspot for major companies.

Mud-dwelling cable bacteria construct metal organic frameworks to grow