We use cookies to provide you with a better experience. By continuing to browse the site you are agreeing to our use of cookies in accordance with our Cookie Policy.
Biosite, a research-based provider of novel, rapid
medical diagnostics, has submitted a premarket approval application (PMA) to
the FDA for the Triage Stroke Panel.
Integra LifeSciences, a maker of skin grafts and surgical instruments, has acquired
the Newdeal Technologies group of companies for roughly $53 million in cash,
subject to certain adjustments.
Medical devicemaker Vision Sciences has entered a distribution agreement with
a unit of Medtronic for its Flexible Cystoscope with Slide-On EndoSheath System.
NeoSurg Technologies, a developer of minimally invasive access products for
laparoscopic surgery, has been granted a patent relating to its bladeless tip
technology.
The FDA warned Cyberonics of manufacturing deficiencies at the Houston plant
that makes its sole product, the VNS Therapy System - a device that stimulates
the vagus nerve to reduce seizures.
Sonic Innovations -- a designer, developer, manufacturer and marketer of advanced
digital hearing aids -- announced that, on Dec. 23, 2004, it accelerated the
exercisability of stock options previously awarded to employees, officers and
directors with exercise prices greater than the closing price of its common
stock as of Dec. 23, 2004 of $4.18 per share.
Scientific Industries has announced the expansion of the range of its MagStir
Genie product line with the introduction of the MultiMagStir Genie multiple-position
digital programmable magnetic stirrer.
Antares Pharma has announced that initial sales of recombinant human insulin
along with Antares Pharma's needle-free injection device, the Medi-Jector VISION,
have begun in India under the trade name Recojet.