NeuroVigil launches portable device to measure brain electrical activity

NeuroVigil has launched its iBrain personal brain monitor — an investigational portable device that can noninvasively record the brain’s electrical activity in people with neurological conditions — in the U.S., according to a company press release. In the second phase of the launch, NeuroVigil will use a smaller…

FDA Clears Parky App, Device to Monitor Motor Symptoms

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given h2o therapeutics 510(k) marketing clearance for its Parky app that monitors motor symptoms in Parkinson’s patients via measurements recorded by an Apple Watch. “As a woman-founded, non [venture capital]-backed company based in Turkey, receiving our first 510(k) clearance is…

PKG Wristwatch Device May Improve Clinical Decision-Making in Parkinson’s, Study Shows

A wrist-worn medical device — called the Personal KinetiGraph or PKG — that reminds people with Parkinson’s disease to take their medication, and records their movements to provide physicians with objective measurements of motor symptoms, showed great promise as a tool to improve clinical decision-making, a study found.