Medical Devices Today

Kinetic Concepts Pipeline Update: V.A.C. Ulta To Launch In Mid-2011

Article preview from "The Gray Sheet" - October 27, 2010

Kinetic Concepts Inc. plans to roll out its V.A.C. Ulta negative pressure wound therapy system with fluid instillation capability in mid-2011 following FDA 510(k) clearance Sept. 17, the firm says.

Boston Sci Leads Device Makers In Fines For Alleged False Product Claims

 
GE Healthcare CT Scanners Cited In Suit By Dozen Alabama Patients
J&J, DePuy Face Potential Half-Billion Dollar U.K. Suit Over Hip Implants
Alcon Acquisition By Novartis Made More Certain With New Chairman
Stryker Chiefs See $150 Million Gaymar Acquisition As Sales Booster
Medtronic Doctor Payments Continue To Spark Questions For FDA
Boston Scientific Gets EU Approval For New Type Of Stent
St. Jude Speeds Stock Buyback Effort To Cover AGA Medical Purchase
Medtronic Gets U.S. Approval For Kyphon Xpander II For Treating Backs
GE To Buy Clarient For $580 Million To Expand Tailored-Test Business
Mentor To Close Arizona Plant Specializing in Lipo Products
Boston Scientific Wins U.S., EU Clearance For Advanix Biliary Stent
St. Jude Says Other Products To Offset Lower Sales For Implantable Devices
Medtronic, Styker, Abiomed Chiefs Outline Course For FDA To Follow

Robots In The Cath Lab -- Is This The Future Of PCI?

Article preview from In-Vivo -October, 2010

Robotic-driven technology has begun to transform surgery, but not without leaving some surgeons unimpressed. Now Corindus is trying to bring robots to the cath lab -- and this time physicians love the technology because it provides an ergonomically better experience and both enhances the procedure and reduces health problems.

European Cost Concerns May Impact Device Sales

Article preview from Medtech Insight - September, 2010

Following the lucrative payouts for Ablation Frontiers Inc. (now Medtronic Ablation Frontiers LLC), CoreValve Inc. (now Medtronic CoreValve LLC), and Ventor Technologies Ltd. last year and the success of St. Francis Medical Technologies Inc. a few years earlier, many device venture capitalists shifted gears—again—reviving their strategy of a decade ago, of pushing medical device portfolio companies to launch first in Europe prior to any commercial attempts in the US.

Sleep Apnea Devices: The Changing Of The Guard

Article preview from Start Up- October, 2010

The current specialty-dominated care paradigm for sleep apnea can't scale-up to meet the demands of an enormous and serious chronic disease. New companies help move diagnosis and treatment to the physicians that see patients first.

MedTech Innovation Will Be Key In Health Care Reform, CMS Chief Says

Article preview from "The Gray Sheet" - October 25, 2010

CMS Administrator Donald Berwick is trying to rally device manufacturers behind health care reform by assuring them that investment in new technologies can be protected even in the midst of great changes in health care delivery.

Deal-Making Accelerates As Innovation Challenges Proliferate - Report

Article preview from "The Gray Sheet" - October 20, 2010

Merger and acquisition activity is experiencing a rebound in 2010 following a steep plunge in 2009, but burgeoning challenges to innovation will require changes for medical technology firms to succeed, according to an Ernst & Young ¹ report.

Medtronic, Alcon, Covidien Deals Drive Industry Thirst For Big Acquisitions

 

S&N Wins Reversal Of Jury Award For Kinetic Concepts In Texas Court 

St. Jude To Buy AGA Medical, Heart Products For $1.08 Billion

S&N, Arrowhead Research To Partner In Cartilage-Regeneration Work

Thermo Fisher Names Advisory Board Including CEO To Find New Products

Medtronic Agrees To Settle Sprint Fidelis suits For $268 Million

Medtronic Allowed Trials Of CoreValve Artificial Heart System

J&J’s DePuy Faces Ever-Mounting Class Action Suits For ASR Hip Replacement

Baxter Exec Moves To Integra Lifesciences As Firm Changes Emphases

CareFusion Recall Of Alaris Pumps Declared By FDA As Most Serious

St. Jude Poaching Dispute With Boston Sci Taken To New Level

Medtronic, Boston Sci, Others Backed In Congress In Opposing FDA Plans

J&J, Osseon Link To Market Repair System For Spinal Fractures

Roche to Buy Key Parts of Medical Automation Systems

Asthmatx Acquisition By Boston Scientific Is Source of Many Happy Returns

Article preview from In-Vivo -October, 2010

Boston Scientific's acquisition of Asthmatx marks a return of the company to the field of strategic buyers with the deal, and in picking Asthmatx, BSX is is reversing a decision it made two years when it sold off its strategic stake in the asthma-device company.

NVCA Offshoot to Lobby For VCs and Start-Ups

Article preview from Start Up- October, 2010

The National Venture Capital Association has formed the Medical Innovation and Competitiveness (MedIC) Coalition, to push for more recognition for start-ups developing new devices and therapeutics as well as the venture investors that back them.