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Solta Medical, a California-based maker of devices to remove fat and improve skin, is considering hanging out a for sale sign after four consecutive quarters of lower-than-expected sales of its Liposonix and Fraxel brands and increased market competition Read More
California start-up Scanadu expects to begin clinical trials of its Scanadu Scout medical tricorder in early 2014, after securing $10.5 million in Series A financing from Relay Ventures, VegasTechFund and Ame Cloud Ventures. Read More
Smith & Nephew announced the U.S. launch of its Healicoil Regenesorb suture anchor at the Arthroscopy Association of North America Fall Course in Las Vegas. Read More
OrthoSensor and Zimmer Holdings have signed a collaborative marketing agreement pairing Zimmer’s NexGen brand of knee replacement systems with OrthoSensor’s Verasense technology in the U.S. and abroad. Read More
CardioInsight, an Ohio-based devicemaker specializing in mapping abnormal heart rhythms, has secured $15 million in long-term strategic financing for its noninvasive ECVUE monitoring system. Read More
Unilife shareholder Byron Brandt has filed a federal securities class-action suit against the devicemaker for alleged false statements about financial performance and quality compliance. Read More
HeartWare International plans to present data from the Endurance destination therapy trial of its ventricular assist device in early 2015 and could file a PMA sometime before that, CEO Doug Godshall said on a Thursday third-quarter earnings call. Read More
Edwards’ U.S. sales for its Sapien transcatheter heart valve were slightly lower sequentially in the third quarter, a factor that will likely “continue to fuel concerns around the barriers to adoption,” Leerink Swann analyst Danielle Antalffy says. Read More
A Medicare national coverage decision issued Wednesday should spur uptake of Thoratec’s HeartMate II left ventricular assist device at additional cardiac care centers across the U.S., company officials say. Read More
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has affirmed a lower court decision that found Synthes’ ’270 spinal implant patent invalid for lack of written description. Read More