Advanced imaging companies spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in Q1 2020 lobbying Congress on issues as diverse as the national COVID-19 response and cybersecurity issues but are most interested in resolving device servicing and remanufacturing problems.

EXACT-Tx will use funds from a NOK155m private placing to harness ultrasound in precision therapeutic targeting across a variety of indications and product classes.

While most device companies filing 2017 annual reports in the first half of 2018 showed CEO-to-worker pay ratios averaging 219:1, Halyard Health (recently renamed Avanos Medical) CEO Joseph F. Woody was compensated 1,250 times what the company’s median employee earned, according to recent disclosures. Medtech Insight also examined CEO-to-worker pay ratios at Align Technologies, Abbott Laboratories, Danaher and Bio-Rad Laboratories, among other firms.

Ten FDA close-out letters were released in July.