Halyard battles ’60 Minutes’ story on faulty Ebola gowns
Halyard Health (NYSE:HYH) is battling a 60 Minutes story from CBS accusing Halyard of providing defective Microcool surgical gowns, meant to protect workers from blood transmitted diseases, to health...
View ArticleDexcom slides on Q1 earnings miss despite sales beat
Dexcom (NSDQ:DXCM) shares have slipped nearly 6% since the continuous glucose monitoring company released its 1st-quarter results April 27 after the company missed Wall Street’s earnings expectation....
View ArticleEndoEvolution claims win in patent spat with J&J’s Ethicon
EndoEvolution today claimed a win in its patent battle with JNJ subsidiary Ethicon over automated suturing technology. Raynham, Mass.-based EndoEvolution said the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office’s...
View ArticleIntuitive Surgical taps Jones for new Sr. veep of design and user experience...
Intuitive Surgical taps Jones for new Sr. veep of design and user experience Robotic surgery powerhouse Intuitive Surgical (NSDQ:ISRG) tagged Charles Jones as its new senior vice president of design...
View ArticleMassDevice.com +5 | The top 5 medtech stories for May 2, 2016
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...
View ArticleNobilis launches Concertis bundled payment biz
Nobilis Health said today it launched Concertis, a business developing a technology platform for new payment and delivery methodologies, such as bundled payments. The Houston, Texas-based company...
View ArticleAccuray, MedPhoton ink deal to integrate ImagingRing into CyberKnife
Accuray (NSDQ:ARAY) said today it inked a collaborative deal with MedPhoto GmbH to integrate its ImagingRing volumetric image guidance system into Accuray’s CyberKnife radiosurgery system. The...
View ArticleAnother FDA win for Synaptive Medical with its ImageDrive Pro
Synaptive Medical said it won FDA 510(k) clearance for its ImageDrive Pro informatics system designed to integrate its existing BrightMatter technology into multiple platforms. The company said the new...
View ArticleDexcom picks up EU distributor Nintamed
Dexcom Inc. (NSDQ:DXCM) said today it inked a deal to pick up Nintamed, a distribution company serving Germany, Switzerland and Austria. Nintamed has served as Dexcom’s exclusive distributor in...
View ArticleB. Braun inks exlcusive distro deal with NuMed for CP stent
B. Braun Interventional Systems said today it extended its exclusive U.S. distribution deal with NuMed for to include its newly-cleared Cheatham Platinum stent designed to treat native or recurrent...
View ArticleLet’s explore diabetes with snakes
Originally from Southeast Asia, Burmese pythons are perhaps best known in the U.S. for the havoc they’ve been creating in the Everglades. Kept as pets and released into the wild, they can grow to...
View ArticleAbiomed posts solid Q4, 2016 sales and earnings beats
Abiomed (NSDQ:ABMD) today posted 4th-quarter and fiscal 2016 results that beat its own forecast and the expectations of Wall Street analysts, but investors still sent shares down in mid-morning...
View ArticlePrivate equity shop RoundTable Healthcare picks up Symmetry Surgical for $140m
RoundTable Healthcare Partners said it paid $140.3 million for Symmetry Surgical, the legacy business formed after Symmetry Medical sold its orthopedics OEM operation to Tecomet in 2014....
View ArticleSunshine Heart pares losses, preps for 1st-in-human trial for C-Pulse heart...
Sunshine Heart (NSDQ:SSH) shares are gaining after the medical device company said today that it slashed its 1st-quarter losses, topping Wall Street’s expectation. Eden Prairie, Minn.-based Sunshine,...
View ArticleUnitedHealth names Medtronic as preferred insulin pump vendor, dealing blows...
Update: Updated with analyst information on Insulet and DexCom, and Insulet’s response. Tandem Diabetes Care (NSDQ:TNDM) shares dropped over 20% after UnitedHealth Group (NYSE:UNH) announced it is...
View ArticlePhilips to sell at least 25% of lighting arm in IPO
(Reuters) – Royal Philips (NYSE:PHG) plans to sell at least 25% of its lighting business, the world’s largest maker of lights, on the stock market to focus on its larger medical equipment operations,...
View ArticleBiotronik wins FDA nod for Iperia ProMRI HF-T defibrillator
Biotronik said today it won FDA premarket approval for its Iperia ProMRI HF-T cardiac resynchronization defibrillator, which is designed to be compatible with diagnostic magnetic resonance imaging...
View ArticleMVM Life Science Partners closes $233m healthcare fund
MVM Life Science Partners said it plans to use the $233 million it raised for its 4th fund to invest in medical companies in the U.S. and Europe. The Boston-and-London-based investment shop said the...
View ArticleMassDevice.com +5 | The top 5 medtech stories for May 3, 2016
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...
View ArticleKohlberg picks up controlling stake in Amendia
Amendia said last week that private equity firm Kohlberg & Company inked a deal to snag a majority ownership in Amendia. Kohlberg & Company will support Amendia’s growth initiatives with its...
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