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The American Academy of Neurology and American Heart Association have awarded the first-ever Ralph L Sacco Scholarships for Brain Health to Patrick Devlin and Cyprien Rivier. The inaugural ‘Sacco Scholars’ will each receive US$150,000 to support their research endeavours in brain health. Nancy Brown Carlayne Jackson, MD, FAAN Mitchell Elkind Orly Avitzur, MD, MBA The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth Houston) Yale University

NeuroOne Medical Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: NMTC) has announced that the OneRF #ablation system was recently used at a prestigious hospital located in Jacksonville, USA to successfully complete five ablations in one patient suffering from multifocal #epilepsy.

ESMINT Society has signed a memorandum of understanding with Société Française de Neuroradiologie (SFNR) in an effort to acknowledge their shared goals and interests. Zsolt Kulcsár Hubert Desal Christian Taschner

The use of #robotics in the autonomous treatment of #stroke patients could widen access to time-sensitive emergency mechanical #thrombectomy procedures, as evidenced by a recent paper from researchers at King's College London. Thomas Booth Harry Robertshaw

MicroVention-Terumo announced today that the LVIS EVO intraluminal support device is now commercially available for the treatment of wide-neck intracranial aneurysms in the USA. Charles Matouk Charles Matouk Carsten Schroeder

Boston Scientific has obtained a CE mark for the Vercise neural navigator 5 software with STIMVIEW XT technology, which—when used as part of the Vercise Genus #dbs systems—enables efficient programming in the treatment of Parkinson’s, essential tremor and dystonia. Francesca Morgante Vincent Sourdaine Boston Scientific Deep Brain Stimulation

A study presented by Elisa Caron, M.D. at #vam24 examining outcomes between different carotid revascularisation procedures has concluded that #tcar and #cea both represent a “reasonable choice” in severe kidney disease/haemodialysis patients. Society for Vascular Surgery Vascular Specialist Vascular News

High stroke/death rates relating to carotid #stenting in the US Pacific Northwest may be driven by selection of high-risk patients with <80% stenosis. This was among key messages delivered by Rahul Ghosh at #vam24. Society for Vascular Surgery Sara Zettervall Jordan Stern, MD Vascular Specialist Vascular News

When it comes to ongoing debates of endarterectomy vs TCAR in #carotid artery stenosis treatment, operators should be comfortable and maintain experience with both procedures—and “collaborate as needed”—as per findings presented this week at #vam24. Andrea A. Jeffrey Siracuse Society for Vascular Surgery Vascular Specialist Vascular News

Boston Scientific has announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Silk Road Medical, Inc., a medical device company involved in producing products to be deployed during #tcar.