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Encore Medical has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire substantially
all of the assets of Osteoimplant Technology (OTI), which will include a complete
line of spinal implant products.
PolyMedica has announced that its subsidiary Liberty Medical Supply acquired
substantially all of the assets, excluding receivables, and the business of
National Diabetic Assistance (NDAC).
Medical devicemaker Medtronic recently said a federal district court reversed
an earlier ruling that two of the company's stents violated a patent held by
rival devicemaker Guidant.
Cyberonics has announced that the FDA deemed the Vagus Nerve Stimulation (VNS)
Therapy System approvable as a long-term adjunctive treatment for patients over
the age of 18 with chronic or recurrent treatment-resistant depression (TRD)
in a major depressive episode that has not responded to at least four adequate
antidepressant treatments.
Aspectrics, a supplier of Encoded Photometric Infrared Spectroscopy (EP-IR)
analyzers to OEMs, has begun shipping evaluation units of its EP-IR technology
to OEMs who manufacture analytical and process instrumentation.
Ventana Medical Systems has announced a multiyear agreement with Laboratory
Corporation of America (LabCorp) to place Ventana's BenchMark XT advanced tissue
staining systems in the company's laboratories nationwide.
R2 Technology, a designer of medical computer aided detection (CAD), has announced
the introduction of the ImageChecker LS CAD system, designed exclusively for
low volume film-based mammography sites.