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Toshiba Medical Systems wins 5-year $828m DoD radiology contract
Toshiba Medical Systems said last Friday it won a 5-year $827.6 million fixed-price, indefinite delivery and quantity contract with the US Department of Defense. The contract will position Toshiba...
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New at-home sleep apnea tests compete with for-profit labs
This figure shows the airway path and the obstruction caused by sleep apnea. [Image from Wikipedia]The big business in laboratory sleep apnea testing has a new competitor in the homes of obstructive...
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This artificial skin can sense temperature changes
Engineers and scientists from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and ETH Zurich have developed a temperature detecting artificial skin that could be used for prosthetic limbs in amputees....
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Second Sight announces upcoming rights offering
Second Sight Medical (NSDQ:EYES) today released information on an upcoming rights offering, with plans to open on February 10, with proceeds slated to support development and improvement of its Argus...
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MassDevice.com +5 | The top 5 medtech stories for February 6, 2017
Say hello to MassDevice +5, a bite-sized view of the top five medtech stories of the day. This feature of MassDevice.com’s coverage highlights our 5 biggest and most influential stories from the day’s...
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Maquet expands patent suit against Saphena
Getinge‘s (PINK:GETI B) medical subsidiary Maquet Cardiovascular said today it expanded a patent infringement suit against Saphena Medical and former employee Dr. Albert Chin, adding 2 specific actions...
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Merit Medical picks up Argon Medical Devices, Catheter Connections assets for...
Merit Medical (NSDQ:MMSI) said today it picked up assets from Argon Medical Devices and Catheter Connections for $48 million. The South Jordan, Utah-based company did not say which specific assets it...
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Haemonetics posts Q3 beat, lifts guidance
Haemonetics (NYSE:HAE) today released its 3rd quarter earnings, topping expectations from analysts on The Street and raising its outlook for the rest of its fiscal year 2017. The Braintree,...
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5 Golden Mousetrap finalists you need to know
[Image courtesy of Martyn Fletcher on Flickr, per Creative Commons 2.0 license]Some of the latest and greatest design and manufacturing innovations will be highlighted this week at Design News’s annual...
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Brazilian regulators add two firms to MDSAP medical device quality inspection...
By Stewart Eisenhart, Emergo Group Brazilian medical device market regulator ANVISA has added two more firms to its list of accredited inspectorsfor the Medical Device Single Audit Program (MDSAP). Get...
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Abiomed gains after Abbott tables HeartMate PHP program
Abiomed (NSDQ:ABMD) shares closed up more than 5% yesterday as investors reacted to reports that Abbott (NYSE:ABT) paused its HeartMate PHP program in Europe. Abbott, which acquired the Thoratec line...
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7 medical device industry suppliers you need to visit at MD&M West 2017
More than 20,000 engineers and executives are heading to Anaheim, Calif., this week for MD&M West—which its creator UBM bills as the world’s largest annual medical device manufacturing event. The...
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Johnson & Johnson’s Mentor sued over silicone breast implants
Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) subsidiary Mentor Worldwide’s silicone breast implants are accused of causing muscle pain, nausea and other symptoms in a product liability lawsuit reportedly filed in...
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Carmat rescinds bid to resume artificial heart trial
Carmat (FRA:CXT) said yesterday that it won’t seek to resume implantations of its artificial heart after all, after French regulators suspended a clinical trial last fall after the 5th death in the...
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Former Bio-Rad GC Wadler wins $11m in retaliatory firing suit
A federal jury in California yesterday reportedly awarded the former general counsel for Bio-Rad Laboratories (NYSE:BIO), Sanford Wadler, nearly $11 million in a whistleblower retaliation lawsuit...
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Revisions to the common rule
U.S. federal regulations governing the protection of human subjects in research have been in existence for more than 30 years. The Department of Health, Education, and Welfare first published...
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Stryker lands $486m DoD ortho supply contract
Stryker (NYSE:SYK) won a $486.3 million fixed-price contract with the US Department of Defense to supply the group with orthopedic products, according to a DoD release. The fixed-price indefinite...
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Medtech approvals: FDA releases January 2017 PMA approvals
Summary of PMA Originals & Supplements Approved Originals: 4 Supplements: 40 Submission Number Date Final Decision Review Track Trade Name Appl/Spr Name Approval Order Statement P140033 01/31/2017...
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Researchers develop nanoparticle delivery system for gene editing tool
Researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst have designed a nanoparticle delivery system to assist the gene-editing tool known as CRISPR/Cas9 across the cell membrane and into the cell...
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Valeritas rekindles IPO plans, aims for $50m
Valeritas yesterday rekindled its plans for an initial public offering, but scaled its ambitions back by some $25 million. Bridgewater, N.J.-based Valeritas makes the V-Go basal insulin delivery system...
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