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A new frontier in the war on brain cancer with NovoCure chairman Bill Doyle
Novocure, the St. Helier, Jersey-based medical device company, which raised more than $158M in an IPO last year, is trying to change the way we fight cancer. Company officials say its proprietary...
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Flex taps ex J&J med device R&D exec Carlson for Flex Med Solutions prez |...
Flex taps ex J&J med device R&D exec Carlson for Flex Med Solutions prez Flex (NSDQ:FLEX) said it hired ex-Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) innovation portfolio veep as its new president of...
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AtriCure wins FDA 510(k) for AtriClip Pro2 LAA device
AtriCure (NSDQ:ATRC) said today it won 510(k) clearance for its AtriClip Pro2 left atrial appendage exclusion system designed to occlude the LAA during minimally-invasive surgical procedures. The...
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Fourth patient converts from complete to incomplete spinal cord injury in...
InVivo Therapeutics (NSDQ:NVIV) said today 4th patient in the Inspire study of its Neuro-Spinal Scaffold has improved from a complete AIS A spinal cord injury to an incomplete AIS B spinal cord injury....
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Hansen pursues neurological indication for Magellan robot-assisted surgery...
Hansen Medical (NSDQ:HNSN) said today it filed a 510(k) application with the FDA for an expanded neurological indication for its Magellan robotic surgical system. If the Mountain View, Calif.-based...
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Potrero wins FDA 510(k) for Accuryn system
Potrero Medical said today it won FDA 510(k) clearance for its Accuryn monitoring system designed to turn urinary catheters into diagnostic tools. San Francisco-based Potrero’s Accuryn critical care...
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Whatever happened to the ASEAN medical device directive?
By Stewart Eisenhart, Emergo Group Back in 2012 and 2013, Emergo and other medical device industry news sources began reporting on an effort by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) trade...
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Edwards Lifesciences boosts outlook after Street-beating Q1
Edwards Lifesciences (NYSE:EW) yesterday boosted its outlook after posting 1st-quarter numbers that beat expectations on Wall Street, with CEO Mike Mussallem saying the FDA could approve an...
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Synergy, Watchman help Boston Scientific swing to Q1 black
Boston Scientific (NYSE:BSX) reaped the rewards of its turnaround push today with a 1st-quarter swing to black ink, raising its outlook for the rest of the year, helped by contributions from its...
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Stryker blasts DJO Global, ex-reps in poaching lawsuit
Stryker (NYSE:SYK) this week blasted orthopedics rival DJO Global in a poaching lawsuit claiming that DJO and a quintet of ex-sales reps gutted its Indiana sales territory and are looking to lure more...
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NuVasive beats earnings number despite slide to Q1 red
NuVasive Inc. (NSDQ:NUVA) managed to eke out an earnings beat despite putting red ink in the ledger during the 1st quarter, sending share prices up today on Wall Street. San Diego-based NuVasive posted...
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Boston Scientific chides EU docs for unsupervised Lotus valve implants
Boston Scientific (NYSE:BSX) today released a field safety notice warning after an investigation identified that a “number of sites” had been performing procedures with the Lotus Valve System without...
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FDA wants more from Proteus, Otsuka on ‘smart pill’
Otsuka Pharmaceutical (TYO:4578) and Proteus Digital Health said today that the FDA issued a complete response letter requesting more information from the companies for the combination of the Proteus...
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Medtronic touts Endurant stent graft data, lowered mortality
Medtronic (NYSE:MDT) today released data from the Engage global registry study of its Endurant abdominal aortic aneurysm stent graft, touting lowered mortality and rupture rates compared to the earlier...
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MassDevice.com +5 | The top 5 medtech stories for April 27, 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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Stryker reveals patient navigation aid for join replacements
Stryker (NYSE:SYK) said today it is launching the JointCoach digital patient engagement and education platform designed to improve overall care delivery and experience for patients undergoing joint...
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J-Pac Medical Announces Lab-on-Chip Reagent Blister Development Kits for...
J-Pac Medical, a trusted manufacturing and packaging outsourcing partner to medical device and diagnostic companies, today announced that it will now offer development kits to allow customers to test...
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Hologic squeaks past Street with Q2 earnings
Hologic (NSDQ:HOLX) today released 2nd quarter 2016 earnings that beat the street and provided new guidance for the 2nd half of the year. The Marlborough, Mass-based company reported profits of $68.9...
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Bard sees shares rise on Q1 beat
C.R. Bard (NYSE:BCR) today released its 1st quarter earnings, handily topping the Street’s expectations for revenue and earnings per share and seeing shares rise in after hours trading. The company...
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Dark clouds over Europe?
By Ronald Boumans, Emergo Group At this moment the Trilogues, the negotiations between the European Parliament, the European Council and the European Commission regarding the Medical Devices and...
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