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Halyard Health picks up Corpak Medsystems
Halyard Health (NYSE:HYH) said today it picked up enternal access solutions company Corpak MedSystems for $174 million. Corpak, a Linden Capital Partners portfolio company, develops, manufactures and...
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Medicare still lacks crucial medical device ID data
By Josh Rising, The Pew Charitable Trusts Under federal policies proposed in January, researchers, medical product innovators, and clinicians will gain unprecedented access to Medicare data that the...
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Stryker spree continues with SafeWire asset buy
Stryker (NYSE:SYK) continued its acquisition spree yesterday with the purchase of SafeWire’s spine device line for an undisclosed amount. SafeWire’s Y-Wire guidewire and Tiger Jamshidi needle family...
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Foundry spinout Fire1 raises $7.5m Series B
Stealthy Irish medical device startup Fire1 said today that its investors, including Medtronic (NYSE:MDT), put up another $7.5 million for its Series B round. Dublin-based Fire1, a spinout from medical...
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DJO Global, Zimmer-Biomet’s EBI finally escape bone-growth stimulator suit
It took 11 years, but DJO Global and Zimmer Biomet (NYSE:ZBH) subsidiary EBI finally escaped the civil side of a False Claims Act lawsuit yesterday alleging that they defrauded Medicare with the sale...
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Livongo pulls down $45m Series C for digital diabetes program
Livongo Health said today that it raised nearly $45 million in a Series C round it plans to use to grow the footprint of its digital diabetes management program. The Livongo program combines lifestyle...
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Biotronik wins FDA nod for BioMonitor 2
Biotronik said today it won FDA premarket approval for its BioMonitor 2 magnetic resonance imaging-compatible insertable cardiac remote monitor. The BioMonitor 2 device is designed for remote...
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Survey: Hospitals aren’t ready for Medicare bundled payment program
Hospitals may not be ready to handle the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services new bundle reimbursement payments for hip and knee replacement procedures, according to a report from Intralign. In...
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Forbion Capital Partners launches $208m life sciences fund
European venture capital shop Forbion Capital Partners said today that it raised a $208 million fund it plans to use for investments in medical device, drug and diagnostic companies. The €183 million...
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Eos Imaging wins FDA nod for spineEos 3D planning solution
EOS Imaging (EPA:EOSI) said it won pre-market approval from the FDA for its spineEos 3D planning software for spinal surgeries. Paris-based Eos won CE Mark approval in the European Union in February...
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iStar Medical raises $11m Series B for glaucoma implant
iStar Medical said today that it raised a $11.4 million Series B round for the implants it’s developing to treat glaucoma. Wavre, Belgium-based iStar said its pipeline, including the 1st-generation...
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MassDevice.com +5 | The top 5 medtech stories for April 12, 2016
Say hello to MassDevice +5, a bite-sized view of the top five medtech stories of the day. This feature of MassDevice.com’s coverage highlights our 5 biggest and most influential stories from the day’s...
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Predictive Technology Group closes Renovo buyout, names new prez
Salt Lake City, Utah-based Predictive Technology Group (OTCMKTS:PRED) said today it closed its buy of ReNovo Biotech and tapped former ReNovo Biotech CEO Eric Olson as the new prez of Predictive...
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Patent office to review United Therapeutics, SteadyMed patent conflict
SteadyMed Therapeutics (NASDAQ:STDY) said today it that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office initiated an inter partes review against a United Therapeutics patent....
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Singapore HSA simplifies import declaration rules for medical devices
By Stewart Eisenhart, Emergo Group The Health Sciences Authority (HSA), Singapore’s medical device market regulator, plans to change its import declaration requirements for medical devices and other...
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Toshiba partners with UCI to study potential brain damage in HS football players
Toshiba (TYO:6502) said yesterday it is partnering with the University of California, Irvine to study possible brain damage incurred in high school football players. The study is the 1st-of-its-kind...
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Sen. Franken pushes for review of Medtronic Infuse study
Senator Al Franken (D-Minn.) is pushing for more details on Medtronic‘s (NYSE:MDT) study of its Infuse Bone Graft, saying that the product may have “potentially skewed the risk profile” for patients...
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FDA panel to mull St. Jude Medical’s Amplatzer PFO occluder cardiac implant
An FDA advisory panel is slated to review the clinical data behind St. Jude Medical‘s (NYSE:STJ) bid for pre-market approval of its Amplatzer cardiac implant for treating patent foramen ovale. The...
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Study: Patients with Edwards Lifesciences Sapien 3 show higher pacemaker...
A clinical study of the next-generation Sapien 3 implantable heart valve made by Edwards Lifesciences (NYSE:EW) showed a higher rate of pacemaker implantation than with an earlier version of the...
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Medtronic touts insulin pump study
Patients with Type II diabetes fared better with Medtronic‘s (NYSE:MDT)MiniMed Paradigm Veo insulin pumps that with multiple daily injections, according to a Medtronic-backed study published in the...
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