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| Nov 15, 2011 | Zimmer acquires XtraFix | Acquisitions Roundup | Orthopedics giant Zimmer Holdings (NYSE:ZMH) acquired Memphis, Tenn.-based ExtraOrtho Inc. and its external fixation system XtraFix.
The XtraFix system is used after breaks or fractures for unilateral and multilateral fixation of bones. The... |
| Aug 30, 2010 | Ohio’s Strickland, Invacare at odds in gubernatorial race | Home medical products maker Invacare Corp. (NYSE: IVC) has taken center stage in Ohio’s gubernatorial election, thanks to a TV advertisement from Gov. Ted Strickland that criticizes the outsourcing of Buckeye State jobs.
The ad features a L... |
| Aug 30, 2010 | Invacare becomes political football in Ohio’s governor race | “John Kasich sat on Invacare’s board as a director, and signed off on jobs being outsourced and sent to China and Mexico,” Ramos says in the ad. “I believe they sent those jobs overseas so they can make more profit.” (Quick, sign this woman... |
| Jul 22, 2010 | Mixon returns to flourishing Invacare | By Mary Vanac
Invacare Corp.’s high-profile chairman and CEO A. Malachi Mixon III — known to most people simply as Mal — plans to return to his chairman’s seat by the end of July.
The hard-living entrepreneur who threw in his life’s savings... |
| Jul 22, 2010 | Mixon returning to Invacare … sorely missed, but company’s fine | But Mixon has been telling investors for years that he’s focusing on his industry’s political matters in Washington and his Elyria, Ohio company’s strategic direction, leaving the day-to-day management in the hands of Gerald B. Blouch, pres... |
| Apr 22, 2010 | Invacare ekes out positive Q1 results but lowers guidance | By Mary Vanac
Cost reductions and a stronger U.S. dollar won the first quarter for Invacare Corp. (NYSE:IVC).
But the maker of home healthcare equipment and supplies lowered its forecast for sales growth this year to between zero and 1 perc... |
| Feb 11, 2010 | Hedge fund buys into Invacare | By Mary Vanac
ELYRIA, Ohio — Whitebox Advisors LLC, the Minneapolis hedge fund family headed by Andrew Redleaf, acquired 1.8 million shares, or 5.4 percent, of home healthcare equipment maker Invacare Corp. (NYSE:IVC), according to a regula... |
| Feb 10, 2010 | Minneapolis hedge fund firm Whitebox Advisors buys 5.4 percent of Invacare’s shares | ELYRIA, Ohio — Whitebox Advisors LLC, the Minneapolis hedge fund family headed by Andrew Redleaf, has acquired 1.8 million shares, or 5.4 percent, of Invacare Corp., the maker of home health care equipment and products, according to a re... |
| Feb 4, 2010 | Invacare looks forward to 2010 without specter of medical device tax | Free cash flow, which is a measure of net cash Invacare generated after paying bills and making investments, was $61.8 million in the quarter, up from $56.5 million a year ago. For the year, free cash flow was $141.6 million, up more than t... |
| Feb 4, 2010 | Invacare’s Q4, 2009 profits rise | By Mary Vanac
ELYRIA, Ohio — Home healthcare products maker Invacare Corp. (NYSE:IVC) is closing the books on a strong financial performance in 2009 “despite a challenging reimbursement and economic environment,” chairman and CEO A. Malachi... |
| Jan 28, 2010 | Night Read (Ohio): Austen BioInnovation Institute partners with Orthopaedic Research Laboratories | David M. Katz, professor of neurosciences at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, will lead a team of researchers at the school to use a $466,000 grant from the International Rett Syndrome Foundation this year to test potent... |
| Jan 22, 2010 | BioOhio, LifeScience Alley ask legislators to limit medical device sales tax | Medical device makers learned about the proposed taxes in September when the Senate Finance Committee floated an early version of its health reform bill, which included an annual fee, based on market share, aimed at raising $4 billion a ye... |
| Jan 14, 2010 | Invacare employees to President Obama: Please c’mon by | ELYRIA, Ohio — Employees of home health care equipment maker Invacare Corp. are using YouTube videos to woo President Obama to visit their company during his White House to Main Street Tour through Lorain County on Jan. 22.
Obama and his st... |
| Jan 12, 2010 | From absurdity to reality? Medical device tax jolts Invacare CEO Malachi Mixon | While a lot of medical device companies are ignoring the looming tax — it might not happen, they reason — Mixon and Invacare are taking a different approach. “We told our shareholders about the risks. I’m openly talking about it,” Mixon sai... |
| Dec 22, 2009 | New tax on medical device manufacturers could force Invacare to ship out jobs — MedCity Evening Read, Dec. 22, 2009 | Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus recently was awarded an initial $5.5 million contract from the National Cancer Institute to serve as a biospecimen core resource for the Cancer Genome Atlas, a program co-managed by the cancer in... |
| Dec 3, 2009 | Cuyahoga County commissioner believes $20 million asking price for Public Hall should drop — MedCity Evening Read, Dec. 3, 2009 | Youngstown health system Forum Health has asked a U.S. Bankruptcy Court for one more payday for former CEO Walter “Buzz†Pishkur, but a far less lucrative one than last time, according to the Youngstown Business Journal. Attorneys for ... |
| Nov 24, 2009 | Invacare Corp. declassifies its board of directors to enhance corporate governance — MedCity Evening Read, Nov. 24, 2009 | In August 2006, Battelle helped launch Ohio’s first STEM-based school — Metro Early College High School — on the campus of Ohio State University. For the past two years, Battelle has managed the Ohio STEM Learning Network, a public/priva... |
| Oct 22, 2009 | Invacare earnings-per-share rise 27 percent in third quarter even though sales fall 6 percent | The company reported restructuring costs of $2.2 million in the third quarter, mostly from downsizing a European plant and Asian operations, Rob Gudbranson, chief financial officer, told securities analysts during an early morning conferen... |
| Jul 27, 2009 | Invacare profits rise, revenues slip in second quarter | ELYRIA, Ohio — Invacare Corp. profits rose 43 percent in the second quarter from a year ago as operating expenses as a proportion of sales, interest expenses and income taxes fell.
Invacare, which makes home health care equipment, prod... |
| Jul 22, 2009 | Announcing the first annual MedCity News medical cornhole tournament | Cornhole: The Ultimate Medical Challenge
4 to 8 p.m. Aug. 27 at Edgewater Park
Free to play. Free to watch. Onlookers pay $15 to eat.
Tournament teams already include members of Cleveland Clinic Innovations, Within3, MetroHealth Medical Cen... |
| Jun 12, 2009 | MedCity Weekend Rounds, June 12, 2009 | Tuesday brought information about earmark requests from Ohio health care organizations for this year’s federal budget. Emergency medical helicopters, technology upgrades, drug development and commercial research requests topped the list. I... |
| Jan 29, 2009 | Invacare profits, revenues grow – slowly | Promoted
Telemedicine’s potential to provide healthcare to the world’s most vulnerable
Teladoc Health Head of R&D Yulun Wang highlights the impact of virtual care in underserved populations around the globe through the World Telehealth ... |
| Jan 26, 2009 | MedCity morning read, Monday, Jan. 26 | Meridian Bioscience makes diagnostic kits, and purified reagents and related products to enable the early diagnosis and treatment of common medical conditions, such as digestive and respiratory viruses. The company also makes technologies... |
| Invacare Corp. declassifies its board of directors to enhance corporate governance — MedCity Evening Read, Nov. 24, 2009 | News and notes from the day in MedCity, Ohio.
Elyria home health care company Invacare Corp. said Tuesday it has enhanced its corporate governance framework and policies, including agreeing to declassify its board of directors. Sharehold... |
| From absurdity to reality? Medical device tax jolts Invacare CEO Malachi Mixon | ELYRIA, Ohio — A. Malachi Mixon III, chairman and chief executive of Invacare Corp., shook his head in September when he heard that the head of the Senate Finance Committee wanted to tax medical device sales to raise $4 billion a year to pa... |
| Invacare becomes political football in Ohio’s governor race | Home medical products makerInvacare Corp. (NYSE: IVC) has taken center stage in Ohio’s gubernatorial election, thanks to a TV advertisement from Gov. Ted Strickland that criticizes the outsourcing of Ohio jobs.
The ad features a Lorain woma... |
| Invacare looks forward to 2010 without specter of medical device tax | ELYRIA, Ohio — Home health care products maker Invacare Corp. is closing the books on a strong financial performance in 2009 “despite a challenging reimbursement and economic environment,” according to the company’s chairman and CEO, A. Ma... |
| Invacare profits, revenues grow – slowly | Image via Wikipedia
ELYRIA, Ohio — Profit and sales growth slowed significantly in the final quarter of 2008 for Invacare Corp., thanks to an indirect effect of the global financial crisis.
Invacare, the home health care equipment and suppl... |
| Night Read (Ohio): Austen BioInnovation Institute partners with Orthopaedic Research Laboratories | News and notes from a day in MedCity, Ohio:
The Austen BioInnovation Institute in Akron has struck a strategic partnership with Cleveland orthopedic device testing and design firm Orthopaedic Research Laboratories to discover, develop and c... |
| Announcing the first annual MedCity News medical cornhole tournament | There’s one thing that can mitigate — even if it’s just for a day — a summer of budget cuts, a brutal private equity market, and the promise of months of unending brawls over health-care reform.
And that thing is cornhole.
MedCity News is p... |
| Cuyahoga County commissioner believes $20 million asking price for Public Hall should drop — MedCity Evening Read, Dec. 3, 2009 | News and notes from the day in MedCity, Ohio.
One Cuyahoga County commissioner believes Mayor Frank Jackson should lower his $20 million asking price for city-owned land coveted for a medical merchandise mart and new convention center, acco... |
| Invacare earnings-per-share rise 27 percent in third quarter even though sales fall 6 percent | ELYRIA, Ohio — Invacare Inc. saw earnings-per-share rise 27 percent in the third quarter because of ongoing cost-cutting, and growing financial and operating efficiencies — in spite of a sales drop of 6 percent.
The maker of home hea... |
| New tax on medical device manufacturers could force Invacare to ship out jobs — MedCity Evening Read, Dec. 22, 2009 | News and notes from the day in MedCity, Ohio:
A new tax on medical device manufacturers in the U.S. Senate’s health insurance reform bill may force Elyria-based Invacare Corp., which employs 1,300 people in Northeast Ohio, to shift jobs to ... |
| MedCity Weekend Rounds, June 12, 2009 | CLEVELAND, Ohio — A couple of Midwest biomedical companies announced new venture financing this week. Could the deep freeze for early-stage investments be thawing?
On Monday, we reported that OrthoHelix Surgical Designs in Akron, Ohio, won ... |
| Invacare profits rise, revenues slip in second quarter | ELYRIA, Ohio — Invacare Corp. profits rose 43 percent in the second quarter from a year ago as operating expenses as a proportion of sales, interest expenses and income taxes fell.
Invacare, which makes home health care equipment, produ... |
| Mixon returning to Invacare … sorely missed, but company’s fine | Invacare Corp.‘s high-profile chairman and CEO A. Malachi Mixon III — known to most people simply as Mal — plans to return to his chairman’s seat by the end of July.
The hard-living entrepreneur who threw in his life’s savings of $10,000 to... |
| MedCity morning read, Monday, Jan. 26 | CINCINNATI, Ohio — A slowing world economy is beginning to affect the sales growth of life sciences companies.
Last week, Meridian Bioscience Inc. in Cincinnati announced record net sales of $34.3 million for its first fiscal quarter, whic... |
| BioOhio, LifeScience Alley ask legislators to limit medical device sales tax | COLUMBUS, Ohio — BioOhio and LifeScience Alley, the state biotechnology development organizations in Ohio and Minnesota, have joined 20 other industry groups asking legislators to limit the medical device taxes or fees proposed in both the... |