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Cardiac Insight raises $2.5m to support CardeaScreen
Cardiac Insight said today it closed a $2.5 million Series C funding round to support its CardeaScreen device and to finalize the development of a proprietary wearable sensor technology. The...
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New implant set to join fight against U.S. painkiller epidemic
(Reuters) – Two companies are on the cusp of taking a new treatment for opioid addiction to the U.S. market at a time when lawmakers are seeking ways to arrest an epidemic of heroin and painkiller...
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U.S. companies starting to see relief from pains of strong dollar
(Reuters) — The sluggish U.S. economy is proving to be a relief for U.S.-based companies struggling under the weight of the strong dollar and could lead to more positive earnings surprises in the weeks...
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Trust the Process
Merriam Webster defines a case study as a published report about a person, group, or situation that has been studied over time; also : a situation in real life that can be looked at or studied to learn...
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Halyard battles ’60 Minutes’ story on faulty Ebola gowns
Halyard Health (NYSE:HYH) is battling a 60 Minutes story from CBS accusing Halyard of providing defective Microcool surgical gowns, meant to protect workers from blood transmitted diseases, to health...
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Dexcom slides on Q1 earnings miss despite sales beat
Dexcom (NSDQ:DXCM) shares have slipped nearly 6% since the continuous glucose monitoring company released its 1st-quarter results April 27 after the company missed Wall Street’s earnings expectation....
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EndoEvolution claims win in patent spat with J&J’s Ethicon
EndoEvolution today claimed a win in its patent battle with JNJ subsidiary Ethicon over automated suturing technology. Raynham, Mass.-based EndoEvolution said the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office’s...
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Intuitive Surgical taps Jones for new Sr. veep of design and user experience...
Intuitive Surgical taps Jones for new Sr. veep of design and user experience Robotic surgery powerhouse Intuitive Surgical (NSDQ:ISRG) tagged Charles Jones as its new senior vice president of design...
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MassDevice.com +5 | The top 5 medtech stories for May 2, 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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Nobilis launches Concertis bundled payment biz
Nobilis Health said today it launched Concertis, a business developing a technology platform for new payment and delivery methodologies, such as bundled payments. The Houston, Texas-based company...
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Accuray, MedPhoton ink deal to integrate ImagingRing into CyberKnife
Accuray (NSDQ:ARAY) said today it inked a collaborative deal with MedPhoto GmbH to integrate its ImagingRing volumetric image guidance system into Accuray’s CyberKnife radiosurgery system. The...
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Another FDA win for Synaptive Medical with its ImageDrive Pro
Synaptive Medical said it won FDA 510(k) clearance for its ImageDrive Pro informatics system designed to integrate its existing BrightMatter technology into multiple platforms. The company said the new...
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Dexcom picks up EU distributor Nintamed
Dexcom Inc. (NSDQ:DXCM) said today it inked a deal to pick up Nintamed, a distribution company serving Germany, Switzerland and Austria. Nintamed has served as Dexcom’s exclusive distributor in...
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B. Braun inks exclusive distro deal with NuMed for CP stent
B. Braun Interventional Systems said today it extended its exclusive U.S. distribution deal with NuMed for to include its newly-cleared Cheatham Platinum stent designed to treat native or recurrent...
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Let’s explore diabetes with snakes
Originally from Southeast Asia, Burmese pythons are perhaps best known in the U.S. for the havoc they’ve been creating in the Everglades. Kept as pets and released into the wild, they can grow to...
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Abiomed posts solid Q4, 2016 sales and earnings beats
Abiomed (NSDQ:ABMD) today posted 4th-quarter and fiscal 2016 results that beat its own forecast and the expectations of Wall Street analysts, but investors still sent shares down in mid-morning...
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Private equity shop RoundTable Healthcare picks up Symmetry Surgical for $140m
RoundTable Healthcare Partners said it paid $140.3 million for Symmetry Surgical, the legacy business formed after Symmetry Medical sold its orthopedics OEM operation to Tecomet in 2014....
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Sunshine Heart pares losses, preps for 1st-in-human trial for C-Pulse heart...
Sunshine Heart (NSDQ:SSH) shares are gaining after the medical device company said today that it slashed its 1st-quarter losses, topping Wall Street’s expectation. Eden Prairie, Minn.-based Sunshine,...
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UnitedHealth names Medtronic as preferred insulin pump vendor, dealing blows...
Update: Updated with analyst information on Insulet and DexCom, and Insulet’s response. Tandem Diabetes Care (NSDQ:TNDM) shares dropped over 20% after UnitedHealth Group (NYSE:UNH) announced it is...
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Philips to sell at least 25% of lighting arm in IPO
(Reuters) – Royal Philips (NYSE:PHG) plans to sell at least 25% of its lighting business, the world’s largest maker of lights, on the stock market to focus on its larger medical equipment operations,...
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