ArthroCare Corp. of Austin, TX will pay $30 million to settle securities fraud-related charges with the U.S. Department of Justice, the DOJ recently announced. Federal prosecutors say shareholders lost more than $400 million in mid-2008 ...
Tags: Surgical Instruments, Arthrocare, Fraud Case Securities
"The United States stands on the cusp of a dramatic revival and rejuvenation propelled by an amazing wave of technological innovation," writes Stanford researcher Vivek Wadhwa in a recent editorial in The Washington Post. The basic notion ...
Tags: Technology Renaissance, Health Technology, Medicine Technology
As the clock ticks on a May 31 deadline to submit conflict mineral reports to the federal government, some in the plastics industry are wondering how the new law aimed at addressing a humanitarian crisis in Africa applies to them. The ...
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Move over smartphones. The world's consumer electronics companies have begun competing now to be at the vanguard of what all hope will be the next big thing: wearable devices. The annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) kicked off here ...
The University of Minnesota is looking to recruit students for its master's degree program in medical device innovation. The engineering-focused curriculum is designed to prepare students for careers in the medical device industry, which ...
Lyophilization Services of New England (LSNE), a New Hampshire based contract manufacturing organization is pleased to announce that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently completed an inspection of their Manchester manufacturing ...
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Kalila Medical, a privately held medical device company focused on the development of next-generation steerable catheter technologies, today announced it has received CE mark approval for its Vado™ Steerable Introducer Sheath for ...
Tags: Kalila Medical, CE mark approval, Vado™Steerable Introducer Sheath
For the medtech industry, 2014 is unlikely to be a year full of surprises as companies grapple with a health care market wary of big-ticket procedures and items. The largest gains will likely involve digital health and other technologies ...
Electromed, Inc. (NYSE MKT: ELMD), a global medical device company, today announced it has received notification from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration that its next generation SmartVest® Airway Clearance System, the model ...
A new technology for artificial muscles could be a boon to medical device manufacturers, according to a recently published paper in the Journal of Advanced Materials. The paper, dubbed Powerful, Multifunctional Torsional Micro Muscles ...
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With the continued growth of the global medical device market demand and the increasing levels of health care, medical supplies market demand is on the high growth trend year by year. Meanwhile SMEs in China medical supplies industry has ...
Tags: Bandage, Gauze, Isolation Gown, Nurse Cap, Face Mask, Surgical Instruments
After seeing its revenue fall over the past years, Boston Scientific is looking to boost its bottom line in China. The company is adding employees in China and is debuting surgeon-training centers there, according to a Wall Street Journal ...
The Ohio Third Frontier Commission, a state economic development initiative, recently approvedmore than $12.8 million in funds to promote cutting-edge biotechnology, including a neurostimulation device to enhance breathing and a spine ...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first device aimed at easing the pain of migraines preceded by aura -- sensory disturbances that occur just before an attack. About a third of migraine sufferers experience auras. ...
Tags: magnet device, pain of migraines, aura
The first device to treat migraine pain when the headache is preceded by an often-visual disturbance called an aura has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The Cerena Transcranial Magnetic Stimulator (TMS) is held to ...