In a statement, U.S. FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, MD, revealed that the FDA has completed its first qualification of a medical device development tool to provide a more objective platform for developing devices in a key area of medicine: cardiovascular health.

The global mobile health sector is poised to grow 32.3% over the next decade to reach approximately $189 billion by 2025. Some of the prominent trends that the market is witnessing include an increasing awareness of mobile-based medical devices, a surging focus on patient-centric healthcare delivery, and more.

The U.S. FDA has authorized use of Cook Medical’s Flourish Pediatric Esophageal Atresia Anastomosis, a first-of-its-kind medical device to treat infants up to 1 year old for a birth defect that causes a gap in their esophagus, called esophageal atresia.

According to a new report from MarketsandMarkets, the surgical lasers market is expected to reach $2.37 billion by 2021, growing at a compound annual growth rate of 5.1% from 2016 to 2021. Factors driving market growth include technological advancements in surgical lasers, high prevalence of chronic diseases, a growing preference for minimally invasive surgeries, and more.

In Britain, diagnoses of children with sleeping disorders has increased by about ten percent in...