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Judge blocks dialysis aid rule
(Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Thursday put on hold a new federal rule that dialysis providers have said would prevent dialysis patients from using charitable assistance to buy private health insurance....
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Medtech sits on the sidelines as ACA repeal looms
[Image by John Snape – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0]Some major medical device industry lobbying groups are staying mum for now about the expected repeal of the U.S. Affordable Care Act—even though an...
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Abbott launches St. Jude Medical’s Ensite Precision cardiac mapping
Abbott (NYSE:ABT) yesterday said it launched the EnSite Precision cardiac mapping system it acquired when it paid $25 billion for St. Jude Medical earlier this month. The commercial launch also...
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VisionCare launches new clinical trial for telescope implant
VisionCare, Inc. said this week that the FDA approved its investigational device exemption for a new clinical trial in the U.S. evaluating its telescope implant in patients with end-stage macular...
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MassDevice.com +5 | The top 5 medtech stories for January 13, 2017
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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Obalon logs 1st commercial use of weight loss balloon
Obalon Therapeutics (NSDQ:OBLN) said that it has begun U.S. commercial shipments of its Obalon weight-loss balloon. In September last year, Carlsbad, Calif.-based Obalon won pre-market approval from...
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Health Canada approves Fujifilm’s Vevo HD ultra-high-frequency ultrasound device
Fujifilm Sonosite Inc. subsidiary Fujifilm VisualSonics Inc. said today that it won approval from Health Canada for its Vevo Med ultra-high-frequency clinical ultrasound device. The device operates at...
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ViewRay brings in $26m from private placement
ViewRay (NSDQ:VRAY) said today it raised $26.1 million in a private placement of common stock and warrants to support the ongoing commercialization of its MRIdian linear accelerator tech. In the...
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Advanced Cooling Therapy wins CE Mark for esophageal cooling device
Advanced Cooling Therapy said today that it won CE Mark approval in the European Union for use of its esophageal cooling device with Stryker‘s (NYSE:SYK) Altrix Precision Temperature Management System....
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Medtec Report: China increases focus on med device development
Regulators in China are looking to promote and increase the localization and development of medical devices in the region and grow the market significantly, according to a report from industry group...
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MassDevice.com +5 | The top 5 medtech stories for January 19, 2017
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Xtant Medical floats shares, promissory notes for interest payments
Xtant Medical (NYSE:XTNT) this week announced new rounds of fund raising, closing a direct offering of shares and the offering of new promissory notes to pay interest due on existing indenture notes....
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Augmented reality will change the way you view surgery
Royal Philips, a leader in integrated image-guided therapy solutions, recently developed an augmented reality approach to spinal surgery, helping surgeons perform image-guided open and...
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Fraud conviction stands, but $13m penalty to be reevaluated for ex-Heart...
A federal appeals court this week ruled that a $13.2 million penalty against former Heart Tronics CEO Mitchell Stein should be reevaluated, but upheld an associated fraud conviction. Stein was...
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Bovie Medical inks distro deal for PlazXact Ablator
Bovie Medical (NYSE:BVX) said today it inked a global sales channel partnership deal with ConMed (NSDQ:CNMD) for its PlazXact Ablator. As part of the deal, Utica, N.Y.-based ConMed’s PlazXact Ablator...
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FDA Advisory Committees: Independent, Informed, Essential, and Evolving
By: Robert M. Califf, M.D. One of the most common concerns raised when I meet with medical leaders is the need to improve the function of FDA’s Advisory Committees (ACs). ACs play a key role in FDA’s...
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GE shares slide on sales miss, despite healthcare contributions
Shares in GE Healthcare (NYSE:GE) slid today before the market opened before sliding a further -2% after the industrial conglomerate missed top-line expectations for the 4th quarter and full year,...
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Patent board invalidates RainDance patent for obviousness
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board invalidated a RainDance Technologies patent earlier this week for obviousness. The patent, which covers a method for manipulating the size of liquid droplets used in...
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Cytori buys Azaya’s nanoparticle tech in stock deal
Cytori Therapeutics (NSDQ:CYTX) said this week that it bought San Antonio-based Azaya Therapeutics and its nanoparticle cancer drugs in a stock deal. Azaya shareholders will receive $2 million in CTYX...
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J&J’s Ethicon picks up electrosurgical tool maker Megadyne Medical
Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) subsidiary Ethicon Endo-Surgery said today that it paid an unspecified amount for Megadyne Medical Products, 4 years after inking a collaboration deal with the...
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