A snapshot of global medical device approvals captured during the past week in Medtech Insight's Approvals Tracker. This week, FDA approved Channel Medysystems’ Cerene cryotherapy for endometrial ablation and Fidia Pharma’s Triluron hyaluronic acid for knee pain.

Cerene is indicated for endometrial cryoablation in premenopausal women. Channel's PMA is based on 12-month results from the CLARITY trial, which showed procedural success with Cerene in about 77% of patients.

$1.4 billion in Q3 device financing was slightly lower than Q2's $1.8 billion with just one IPO versus Q2's seven. Acquisitions reached a high of $23 billion and diagnostics financing increased 30% over Q2 to $1 billion, while M&A activity at $1.2 billion showed a sharp decline from the previous quarter's $15.6 billion.

Derived from Strategic Transactions, Informa’s premium source for tracking life sciences deal activity, the Venture Funding Deals column provides a monthly review of emerging In Vitro Diagnostic, Medical Device, and Pharmaceutical companies that have received venture funding. This month’s column covers deals announced July through August 2015.