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Wedding wireless telemetry to cardiac pacemaking technology, Medtronic Inc. has won FDA approval for two implantable devices that monitor a patient's heart and send diagnostic information over a wireless local network and landline Internet connection to physicians.
The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California recently sided with Huntsville, Ala.-based SourceCF and SourceCF Clinical Research and Development in a patent infringement suit related to a cystic fibrosis (CF) treatment brought by Chiron.
The FDA is encouraging device companies to use email and other forms of electronic communications such as fax or text messaging to announce voluntary recalls of FDA-regulated products and other important device safety information to the public.
Shares of NxStage Medical Inc., maker of the System One portable kidney dialysis machine, dipped Wednesday as it announced a secondary stock offering a day after the medical device company said its chief financial officer was leaving.
Results from a 10 year clinical study of patients implanted with the first generation prosthetic disc nucleus (PDN) technology indicate the patients improved or maintained their range of motion and experienced early and sustained pain reduction.
Endocare, an innovative medical device company focused on the development of minimally invasive technologies for tissue and tumor ablation, today unveiled the first cryoablation probe that provides physicians the ability to "sculpt" different sized isotherms (ice balls) to encompass tumors and tissues based on individual patient anatomy and needs.