A microscopic retinal implant could restore sight to visually impaired people by converting light into electrical signals, researchers from Sweden, Israel, Italy, and Austria have found. The paper ‘Direct electrical neurostimulation with organic pigment photocapacitors’...

A team of scientists from the UK’s Medical Research Council (MRC) has developed what is known as a mast activation test (MAT) to safely and accurately diagnose peanut allergies...

On 15 March, India’s Department of Pharmaceuticals (DOP) proposed a new set of guidelines to limit the proportion of medical devices publicly sourced from foreign manufacturers. This proposal builds on the ‘Make in India’ initiative and marks the next step in a series of...

On Wednesday 11 April the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced the marketing approval of the first medical device to use artificial intelligence (AI) to detect more than a mild level of diabetic retinopathy, the most common cause...