Stryker Corp. is still on the prowl for acquisitions, although it isn’t naming names, the company’s CEO told analysts this week. Kalamazoo, MI–based Stryker Corp. has been eyeing British company Smith & Nephew Plc and ...
The Anapol Schwartz personal injury law firm has announced that a $2.5bn proposed settlement was submitted for the DePuy Orthopaedics Articular surface replacement (ASR) hip implant litigation in a Toledo, Ohio federal court. The ...
Tags: Metal-on-Metal Hip, Medicine
Medical device giant Johnson & Johnson has reportedly negotiated a settlement that will bring an end to over 7,500 lawsuits from patients who received the company’s all-metal hip implants. For many of these patients, complications ...
Tags: J&J, Hip Implant, $4 Billion
Over the past year, most major public medical device companies have fared well, with a few hiccups here and there. That said, the device industry is confronting challenges such as a dip in elective surgery volume, a rise in recalls related ...
Medical device company Mako Surgical has announced an agreement to acquire the assets of US-based Pipeline Biomedical. Pursuant to the terms of the agreement, Mako Surgical will acquire substantially all of Pipeline Biomedical's business ...
HYDERABAD: Kolkata-based Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute (CGCRI), which is a laboratory of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) Institute, is developing low-cost medical implants using special ceramics, said a ...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted 510(k) clearance to EOS imaging's new sterEOS 3D imaging software. The sterEOS 1.5 software, which is part of the company's full body, low-dose 3 D EOS imaging system, features new ...
Tags: FDA, EOS imaging, 3D imaging software, Drug
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved ArthroCare's SpeedLock HIP Knotless Fixation implant for soft tissue fixation to bone in the hip. SpeedLock HIP, a polyether-etherketone (PEEK) implant, is designed to provide a ...
Tags: FDA, SpeedLock HIP, PEEK