Five notable studies are expected to report top-line data in the first quarter. With the help of Biomedtracker's Early 2022 Outlook Report, we take a look at the major catalysts likely to kick off the year, including in heart failure and wet AMD.

What a doozy of a year 2021 was in the medical device space – capped on one end by a deadly insurrection blasted by medtech heavy-hitters, and on the other end by news that the COVID-19 Omicron variant is wreaking havoc on some diagnostics (and many US FDA on-site inspections). Here are Medtech Insight’s Top 21 US regulation, policy, quality control and compliance stories of 2021, as determined by reader interest.

Royal Philips says a first round of testing on its first generation DreamStation has found that the level of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) put off by the recalled device “is not typically anticipated to result in long-term health consequences for patients.”

Plus deals involving Sun's SPARC/Visiox, Twist/Sosei, BeiGene, Leads Biolabs, Qilu/Arbutus, Hansoh/Keros, Simcere/Avilex and Cytokinetics/Ji Xing.