Derived from Strategic Transactions, Informa’s premium source for tracking life sciences deal activity, the Medical Device Deals Update column is a survey of recent medtech M&A, alliance, and financing activity. This month’s column covers deals announced February-March 2016.

Aerin Medical Inc.’s new procedure, called InFlux, could replace an invasive surgery with a 15-minute in-office procedure to help patients who complain of poor nasal breathing, and also serve people who simply want to breathe better.

For innovators in the medical device industry, the otolaryngology or ENT (ear, nose, and throat) specialty offers just about everything that investors look for these days. Profiles of Aerin Medical, Spirox, Fiagon AG Medical, and ENTvantage Diagnostics.