Posted in Electronic Components by Qmed Staff on December 30, 2013 MC10 (Cambridge, MA) has announced that it has obtained $19.8 million in new equity funding for its bendable electronics technology. Earlier in December, the company ...
Tags: Flexible Electronics, Medicine
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 ...
Creganna-Tactx Medical has announced today that Robert B. Hance will join the company as Chief Executive Officer in September 2013, taking over the role from Helen Ryan who has held the position for the last eight years. Robert ...
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US-based medical technology company Medtronic has announced the randomization of the first patients in the SYMPLICITY HTN-4 clinical trial at Medical University of South Carolina, Piedmont Heart Institute and Duke University Medical Center. ...
Boston Scientific has obtained CE Mark approval for its X4 line of quadripolar CRT-D systems, including the AUTOGEN X4, DYNAGEN X4, and INOGEN X4 cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillators (CRT-Ds), a suite of ACUITY X4 quadripolar LV ...
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The largest medical device companies have had a good run on the stock markets this year, with many clocking in double-digit percentage growth in stock prices over the past 12 months. There are always exceptions to the rule, however. Here ...
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The Micra device is billed as the world's smallest pacemaker Medtronic is moving forward with studies on its own leadless pacemaker, the horse pill-sized Micra Transcatheter Pacing System that is only one-tenth the size of a standard ...
US-based Medtronic has announced that its Micra transcatheter pacing system (TPS) has been implanted in the first patient in Austria as part of the company’s multi-center global clinical trial. The single-arm, pivotal clinical trial ...
US-based Medtronic presented seven-year clinical and radiographic outcomes of artificial disc replacement with PRESTIGE cervical disc compared to anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) at the Cervical Spine Research Society Annual ...
Medtronic's latest iteration of its Activa neurostimulator is not just a therapy device, but a brain activity information recorder that could provide insights into such devastating neurological disorders as Parkinson's disease. The first ...
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Medtronic, a medical technology company, has announced CE Mark approval in Europe and Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) listing in Australia for its Symplicity Spyral catheter and Symplicity G3 radio frequency (RF) generator. ...
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When it comes to best places to work in the medical device industry, Stryker and Johnson & Johnson score well in online rankings. But are there even better medical device workplaces lurking out there? Stryker was the top pure-play medtech ...
Let's say a large medical device company has developed a new computer heart simulator that the FDA thinks is acceptable for running tests--or a new clinical trial design in a cutting-edge field. In the past, a small, early-stage company ...
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The Sorin Group recently announced CE Mark approval of its Solo Smart stentless aortic valve, which Milan, Italy-based Sorin is touting as an improvement on its Freedom Solo valve that has been used in Europe since 2004. So how did Sorin ...
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Svelte Medical Systems (New Providence, NJ) announced that it had successfully completed enrollment in its DIRECT II drug-eluting stent clinical study. The trial is designed to study the safety and efficacy of the company’s ...
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