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Researchers recently implanted in the first patient in the U.S. a new, high-power
investigational neurostimulation system being developed by Medtronic for chronic
pain patients.
St. Jude Medical has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the business of
Velocimed, a privately owned company located in Maple Grove, Minn., that develops
and manufactures specialty interventional cardiology devices.
The Bush administration nominated FDA acting Commissioner Lester Crawford as
commissioner of the FDA, a position that has been vacant since March 2004.
Metro government agreed to buy $50,000 worth of life-saving equipment from a
California firm whose heart-shocking devices have failed in the past during
emergencies, federal documents and interviews show. Cardiac Science manufactures
automatic external defibrillators that are used to treat sudden heart attacks.
Covalon Technologies has entered into an exclusive distribution agreement with
Hartmann-Conco to distribute Covalon collagen wound dressings under the brand
ColActive.
VIASYS Healthcare and InnoMed Technologies have amicably settled their differences
in the patent litigation between them, that they have entered into a settlement
agreement, the terms of which are confidential, and that under the agreement,
VIASYS is free to sell its LYRA nasal cannula interface device in its present
form.
Nymox Pharmaceutical has announced there will be distribution agreements for
the marketing and sale of its AlzheimAlert test kit with medical diagnostic
companies in Europe.
Abbott and OraSure Technologies have announced an agreement for the distribution
of OraSure Technologies' OraQuick ADVANCE rapid antibody test for the detection
of antibodies to the Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 (HIV-1) and Type
Karl Storz, the medical instruments and devices company, has demonstrated the
capabilities of their newly developed Integrated Operating Room at Arab Health
2005.