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Medical device startup CerviLenz Inc. has appointed its first chief financial/operating officer: Federica “Freddi” O’Brien, a certified public accountant who spent the last decade working with bioscience companies.“I have 30 years of experience working with middle-market, development-stage companies, as well as big pharma companies,” O’Brien said. “I had been tracking CerviLenz since I heard about [...]

MedCity News President Chris Seper appeared on air of content partner WKYC-TV, discussing three Cleveland-area medical device companies: AxioMed Spine, CerviLenz and Neuros Medical.

CerviLenz is a simple, low-tech medical device that prompts a “why didn’t I think of that?” response from many obstetricians.Yet the device that quickly, accurately and inexpensively measures a pregnant woman’s cervix could help answer the $26 billion-a-year problem of preterm births in the United States.And CerviLenz, the Chagrin Falls, Ohio, company commercializing the device, [...]

Obstetricians, nurse-midwives and labor and delivery nurses now have a powerful — and inexpensive — tool for assessing a woman’s risk of delivering a baby too early. CerviLenz.The disposable device made by CerviLenz Inc. — a Chagrin Falls, Ohio, startup — was introduced today at the American Academy of Obstetricians and Gynecologists annual meeting in [...]

The company is developing a disposable device that measures the length of a woman’s cervix to help predict risks of preterm birth. It is potentially easier, less costly and just as accurate as the transvaginal ultrasound device used in only high-risk pregnancies. It could be in the market by 2010.