Starts & Stops compiles all the clinical trial announcements, initiations, completions and suspensions tracked by MedDeviceTracker. This edition covers trial announcements from Feb. 11 through Feb. 24, including announcements from CorMatrix Cardiovascular, Hancock Jaffe Laboratories, Toray Industries, Spectral Medical, GI Dynamics, and Check-Cap.

Derived from Strategic Transactions, Informa’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 April-May 2016.

Derived from Strategic Transactions, Informa’s premium source for tracking life sciences deal activity, the Dealmaking column is a survey of recent health care transactions listed by relevant industry segment – In Vitro Diagnostics, Medical Devices, and Pharmaceuticals – and then categorized by type – Acquisition, Alliance, or Financing. This month’s column covers deals announced in May 2016.

CorMatrix Cardiovascular’s CorMatrix ECM tricuspid heart valve is a flexible, unstented valve that works as a replacement valve while also providing the scaffold on which the patient’s own tissue can form a new valve.