Medical Devices Today

Medtronic Begins Development Of Pill-Size Implantable Heart Pacemaker

 

FDA Approves Medtronic Stent Graft To Prevent Aortic-Artery Ruptures 
St. Jude, GE Takeover Attempts Face Targets’ Shareholder Suits
Wright Medical Buys Device Patent From EZ For Pipeline Expansion
GE Buys Israel’s Orbotech, Nuclear-Medicine Devices For $9 Million
Baxter Sells Generic Injectables Unit To U.K.-Based Hikma For $112 Million
Stryker To Buy Porex Surgical For Implantable Reconstructive Products
PerkinElmer, LinaTech To Co-Develop, Market Radiotherapy Upgrades
Boston Sci Sells Neurovascular Division To Stryker For $1.5 Billion
Boston Sci Restructuring Makes It More Dependent On Heart Devices
NuVasive Loses Brand-Name Case To Neurovision, Vows Appeal
Boston Sci Makes Asthmatx Wholly Owned Unit With Buyout Completion
Roche, Abbott Among Makers Of Diagnostics To Serve Own Drugs
Cardinal Health Says Rumors Of Pending Sale Not True

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

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

Zimmer, J&J;, Stryker Devices At Center Of Proposed U.S. Device Registry

 

Abbott, Qiagen Sign Deal To Share, Market Tests For HIV, HPV 

Baxter International Creates Medical Products Unit, Loses Two Executives

Biomet Quarterly Sales Show Pressure On Part-Replacement Industry 

Bard, ConvaTec Sued By Hollister For Alleged Patent Infringements 

Covidien To Invest $1.3 Million On Two Irish Medical Research Projects 

Abbott, Boston Sci, Bard Carotid Stents Cited In Study For Stroke Risk 

Terumo Heart Plans Staff, Subcontractor Expansion To Make New Pump 

Roche, Chugai To Include Diagnostics As Part Of Drug Development 

Hologic Wins Procedural Battle With Conceptus In Patent Suit 

Court Rejects St. Jude Unit’s Trade Secrets Suit Against Volcano Unit 

DePuy Launches Spinal Devices Of Osseon Therapeutics In U.S.  

Settlement With Distributors Rejected By Federal Court 

Medtronic Launches Kyphon Express Curette Spinal Device 

Wright Medical Gets $2.4 Million Military Grant To Study Combat Wound Device

Zimmer, J&J; Seen Having Most To Lose In Proposed FDA Rules Changes

 


DePuy Recall Of Hip Implants Prompts Call For Irish Register Of Devices

Synthes Fined $23.7 Million, Ordered To Sell Norian Unit For Misbehavior

GE Begins Marketing Toxicology Screener Developed With Geron 

BD Sells Pressure-Monitoring Lines To Argon Medical 

Bard, BD, Four Other Device Makers Sued By Guide Flow Over Catheter Patent 

Edwards Could See Sapien Valve Annual Sales Doubling In Five Years 

St. Jude Wins Japanese Approval To Sell Eon Mini Spinal Cord System 

Boston Sci Moves To Quash New Suit Against Guidant Defibrillator 

Medtronic’s MRI-Compatible Pacemaker Hits Delay In FDA Approval Process 

Boston Scientific’s Eight-Year Study Finds ICDs Save Lives, Reduce Risk

Boston Sci Sues Cook, S. Korean Firms For Endoscopic Stent Patent Violations

Medtronic, St. Jude Resolve Executive-Switch Dispute Without Explanation

Boston Sci Makes New Move To Block Suit Against Guidant Over Defibrillator

Endo To Spend $1.2 Billion To Buy Generic Maker Qualitest

Cordis Study Says 10-Year-Old Cypher Equal To Abbott’s Newer Xience V

J&J Completes $480 Million Acquisition Of Micrus Endovascular

Hologic Gets Full Backing Of FDA Advisers For 3-D Mammography

Abbott Releases More Studies Comparing Its Stent With Boston Scientific’s

Cook Reports Favorable Study For Stent Alternative To Artery Bypasses

St. Jude, Managers Face Derivative Shareholder Suit Over Federal Charges

Edwards Says Sapien Heart Valve Cut Deaths In Study Of Frail, Elderly

St. Jude Wins Insurer’s Court Case Over Silzone Coating Policy Payoff

Roche Automated Hepatitis B Test Wins FDA Approval For U.S. Market

Stryker Signs Marketing Agreement For Vision Sciences Endoscope Products

Zoll Medical Gets FDA Approval For Propaq M Vital Signs Monitor For Military

Boston Scientific To Buy Asthmatx For Up To $443.5 Million

Boston Scientific Gets EU Approval For Two New Uses Of Promuse Stent

GE Set To Test ‘Smart Room’ To Help Prevent Hospital ‘Superbug’ Spread

St. Jude Named In Volcano Suit Response To Earlier St. Jude Stent-Wire Suit

Alcon Sale To Novartis Advances With Sale Of Eye Drug To Bausch & Lomb

Medtronic Device Tested To Ease Migraine Pain With Electrical Stimulation

Medtronic Wins Appeals Court Decision Rejecting Shareholder Suit Over Leads

Edwards Sapien Trial Success Could Make It Acquisition Target

Boston Sci Cleared To Market Defibrillator To Wider Patient Market

Cardinal Health Sells Rest Of Stake In CareFusion Spinoff For $706 Million

Boston Sci Head Says Firm Focused On Buying Smaller Companies

St. Jude Opens Major Heart-Valve Plant In Costa Rica

American Medical Patent Case With Biolitec Ordered Back To District Court

GE, Philips, Others Face U.S. Device Competition From China’s Mindray

Medtronic Gets Partial Win Over Synthes Unit In U.S. Appeals Court

 

Zimmer, DePuy, Others Paid Millions To Non-Disclosing Study Doctors

Genzyme To Sell Gene-Testing Division To LabCorp For $925 Million

BD, Sanofi Team To Deliver Flu Vaccine With Tiny, Painless Needle

DePuy Sued For Selling Hip Device In U.K. Three Years After Aussie Recall

Abbott Sees Dissolving Stent As Revolutionary In Device Industry

Abbott Recalls Shipment Of Mis-Callibrating Prism HIV O Plus Tests

Medtronic Sued By Lenox For Using Distributorship For Market Edge

Synthes Sues Biomet, Former Sales Rep For Stealing Ohio Customers

Covidien, Bayer, GE MRI Scanners Draw FDA Kidney-Risk Warning

Roche Seeks To Make China Fifth-Largest Market For Diagnostics

Abbott Gets FDA Approval For Test To Measure Hepatitis B In Blood

 

Abbott, Israel Sign Pact For R&D Support For Israeli Start-Ups

Medtronic Gets EU Clearance For Latest CoreValve Version

St. Jude To Buy Fifth Of CardioMEMS For $60 Million, With Buyout Option

J&J’s DePuy Could Face Irish Suits By 400 Patients With Bad Hip System

J&J CEO Tries To Restore Company Image Following Series Of Recalls

Beckman Coulter Head Resigns, Japan Unit Chief Interim Replacement

Medtronic Set To Spend $1 Billion For Pipeline Products From Others

J&J’s DePuy Sued Over Hip Implants Two Years After Known Defects

Former Guidant Chief Resigns Abruptly From Abiomed Board

Cepheid Said In TB Study To Be 98 Percent Effective With Two-Hour Test

Stryker Completes Buyout Of Gaymar For $150 Million

 

J&J CEO Apologizes As Device Recalls Add To Firm’s Drug Woes

Abbott, Boston Sci, Other Stents Triple Risk For Blacks Over Whites

Medtronic Wins EU Marketing Approval For Resolute Drug Stent

Covidien, Luxembourg Buyer Complete $280 Million Product Sale

DePuy Recalls Two Lines Of ASR Hip Implants For High Failure Rate

St. Jude Partners With Hansen To Make Robot-Controlled Diagnostics

Biomet Device At Center Of Firing Of Researcher From Trial, School

St. Jude, Justice Attempt Deal Over Kickback-Allegations Suit

Medtronic’s Genius RF-Guided Catheter Cleared For Canada Market

Alcon Acquisition By Novartis Completed, But Merger Delayed

Stryker Agrees To Pay $1.35 Million To State To Settle Charge

C.R. Bard Unit Dunned $1.5 Million Over Hernia-Repair Device

W.L. Gore Sued By AGA Medical For Transcatheter Infringements