Hologic made its third big acquisition of 2021 and Agilent agreed to pay up to $695m for Resolution Bioscience to extend its precision oncology capabilities.

Local Medicare carrier Novitas met with monitoring companies to discuss rates for long-term ECG monitoring, but no final decision on recently proposed rate cuts has been reached, iRhythm reported.

Simplify’s total disc replacement complements NuVasive’s C360 line of cervical repair surgery devices, addressing a market that could eventually be worth $2.6bn.

The company’s revenue was down just 1% year-over-year in the third quarter of fiscal 2021, despite the ongoing impact of the pandemic.

Mickelsen, an electrophysiologist at the University of Iowa, recently joined the rapidly growing San Diego-area company as Chief Translational Science Officer and is helping to guide the company’s development of novel electrophysiology therapies to treat cardiac arrhythmias.

Lucid, which markets the EsoGuard test for Barrett’s esophagus, will become a separate public company, either through an IPO or a business combination with a health care SPAC.