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St. Jude Medical announced it has completed the acquisition of the business
of Velocimed, a privately owned company that develops, manufactures and markets
specialty interventional cardiology devices.
A federal appeals court rejected a claim by two lawyers who argued that the
federal Medicare program was defrauded by a company that made defective wires
for heart pacemakers.
Boston Scientific announced that it has received CE Mark for three large vessel
sizes (4.0 mm, 4.5 mm and 5.0 mm) of its Taxus Express2 paclitaxel-eluting coronary
stent system in Europe and other international markets.
Novare Surgical Systems announced that it has received clearance from the FDA
to market its family of EndoLink surgical instruments, single-use hand-held
instruments that incorporate six degrees of articulating freedom.
Utah Medical Products continues its efforts to discover the basis for a lawsuit
filed eight months ago by the FDA in the U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City,
alleging failure to comply with the FDA Quality System Regulation (QSR).
MIV Therapeutics, a developer of next-generation biocompatible coatings and
drug delivery technologies, has filed two new patent applications that will
enable the development and manufacture of an advanced new class of drug-eluting
coatings capable of delivering multiple medicines from a cardiovascular stent
or other implanted medical devices.
Biophan Technologies has announced the development of a new, ultra-small model
of the implantable and wearable, highly precise ceramic SQUIGGLE motor that's
half the size of previous models, with significant improvements in precision
and electrical efficiency compared to electromagnetic motors.
CardioTech International announced that it has submitted to its European Notified
Body an application to obtain CE Marking approval of its CardioPass Artificial
Coronary Artery Graft.
Varian has introduced a revolutionary, new design for nuclear magnetic resonance
probes used to determine the molecular structures of proteins and other biomolecules
in the solid state.
Richard Walmsley, Chief Executive Officer of Norwood Devices, a division of
medical technologies group Norwood Abbey, announced the company had received
Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) approval for its Centurion SES Epikeratome
the key component of Epi-LASIK technology, the next generation of vision
correction surgery.