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American Medical Systems Holdings Inc. June 5 said it has agreed to buy Laserscope for about $715 million in what it calls a "strategic investment for AMS."
OmniVision Technologies, Inc., a world leading supplier of CMOS image sensors, today announced that its widely adopted CameraChip products are enabling an important breakthrough in intubation technology.
An Intel-led consortium of more than 20 companies hopes to smooth out technical and business issues inhibiting the rise of interoperable medical devices for use at home or on the road.
Guidant in January 2005 chose not to alert physicians about electrical flaws in two heart defibrillators when the company knew of the defects, allowing heart patients to continue being implanted with the devices, according to recently released documents.
While the House bucked the FDA by passing a medical device policy measure, the Senate seems less likely to agree to the provision regarding conflict-of-interest on device advisory boards.
Cyberkinetics Neurotechnology Systems, Inc. announced at the American Society of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery (ASSFN) Biennial Meeting on Sunday, June 4, 2006, in Boston, Massachusetts, that clinical investigators provided an update on Cyberkinetics' ongoing BrainGate Neural Interface System (BrainGate) pilot clinical trials.
MIV Therapeutics , a leading developer of next-generation biocompatible coatings and advanced drug delivery systems for cardiovascular stents and other implantable medical devices, announced June 5 that the safety and biocompatibility of its proprietary Hydroxyapatite (HAp) vascular stent coating technology has received pivotal independent confirmation in a new study conducted by a team of researchers in Italy and published in the renowned Journal of Biomedical Materials Research, a prestigious international journal of materials sciences.
Acusphere, Inc. June 5 announced that it has entered into an agreement to license on a non-exclusive basis various ultrasound-related intellectual property from GE Healthcare, a division of General Electric Company.