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26.03.2025 | Photocure appoints Jane Healy as Vice President and General Manager EMEA | Photocure appoints Jane Healy as Vice President and General Manager EMEA
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Press Release – Oslo, Norway, March 26, 2025: Photocure ASA (OSE: PHO), the Bladder Cancer Company, today announced the... |
01.11.2024 | SJM Product Seminar Showcased Macau's Unique Charms to Japanese Visitors | MACAU, Nov. 1, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- SJM Resorts, S.A. ("SJM") has long been devoted to promoting Macau as a premier destination for international visitors. Besides actively participating in the Macao Government Tourism Office's ov... |
15.10.2024 | Glooko: Digital Health Company Raises $100 Million (Series F) | Glooko, a global integrated digital health company connecting patients, providers, biopharma, and medical device partners, announced that it has secured a $100 million Series F funding round. And the company’s Board of Directors also announ... |
10.10.2024 | Glooko Secures $100M, Appoints Mike Alvarez as New CEO | – Glooko, a global digital health company, has announced a successful Series F funding round, raising $100M to fuel its continued growth and product development led by Georgian, with participation from Health Catalyst Capital, Canaan, and o... |
09.10.2024 | SJM Product Seminar (Singapore) Concluded Successfully | Showcasing Macau's Expansive "Tourism+" Offerings
MACAU, Oct. 9, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- SJM Resorts, S.A. ("SJM") has long been dedicated to marketing Macau as a destination of choice for international visitors. Besides ac... |
07.10.2024 | SJM Showcases Macau's Offerings to Global Corporate Travellers at Trip.Biz Business Travel Summit 2024 in Korea | MACAU, Oct. 7, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- SJM Resorts, S.A. ("SJM") proudly participated as the chief sponsoring partner at the Trip.Biz Business Travel Summit in Seoul on 30 September, showcasing Macau's offerings tailored for corporat... |
12.09.2024 | Berlin Heals Strengthens Executive Leadership Team | Berlin Heals appoints proven cardiac rhythm management and heart failure leader John Brumfield as Chief Executive Office
BERLIN, Sept. 12, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Berlin Heals Holding AG and its subsidiaries Berlin Heals GmbH and Berlin Heals ... |
03.09.2024 | SJM Showcases Diverse Offerings in Bangkok Product Seminar | Reinforcing Macau's Unique "Tourism+" Advantage
MACAU, Sept. 2, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- As part of its ongoing efforts to market Macau as a destination of choice among international travellers, SJM Resorts, S.A. ("SJM") act... |
17.09.2018 | For Endotronix, a digital health medtech startup, FDA has dual identities | But what is perhaps more interesting is how the same FDA has reacted to Endotronix’s software product — the Cordella Heart Failure system that the company has recently launched to help cardiology clinics and other providers to manage patien... |
13.12.2017 | Boston Scientific gives deep brain stimulation a new look | Vercise device by Boston Scientific
“For you to have a sense of hearing, you really need high-precision stimulation to be able to stimulate auditory nerves to get that sense of clarity, so you’re not just listening to a single tone,” said M... |
30.08.2017 | 465k patients told to visit doctor to patch critical pacemaker vulnerability | Enlarge
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22.08.2017 | How can the in vitro diagnostics industry tap the growth potential of integrated delivery networks? | Integrated delivery networks (IDNs) provide healthcare across the continuum for a geographic region. Typically, they include hospitals and provider networks and may include skilled nursing or long-term rehab facilities, specialty clinics, a... |
28.07.2016 | FDA gives nod to first fully-removable percutaneous peripheral nerve stimulation device | On Wednesday, Boston Scientific announced that it’s acquiring a company that makes radio-frequency ablation devices, underscoring the need to offer medtech alternatives to treating chronic pain, which is overwhelmingly addressed by drugs.
A... |
23.12.2014 | Round-up: 33 digital health acquisitions in 2014 | Below is a roundup of the 33 acquisitions that MobiHealthNews reported on during 2014. That figure marks a near doubling of M&A activity year-over-year: In 2013 we tracked 17 transactions in digital health. Read on for a chronological r... |
05.06.2014 | So far, 16 digital health acquisitions in 2014 | As we head into the halfway point of 2014, it's already clear that the trend of mobile and digital health acquisitions is up. Just five months into the year, MobiHealthNews has tracked 16 mergers, acquisitions, asset buys and majority stake... |
02.06.2014 | St. Jude Medical closes $455M CardioMEMS buy | St. Jude Medical (NYSE:STJ) wasted no time in closing its acquisition of CardioMEMS, days after the FDA approved the Champion HF implantable heart monitor, saying it plans to begin a "strategic" launch of the device in the U.S.
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29.05.2014 | CardioMEMS gets FDA clearance for implanted artery pressure sensor, St. Jude to acquire it | Atlanta, Georgia-based health device maker CardioMEMS received FDA clearance for its CardioMEMS HF System, which monitors pulmonary artery pressure, but for patients who have experienced New York Heart Association (NYHA) Class III heart fai... |
18.04.2014 | Device company with focus on Type 2 diabetes treatment raises another $150K | Founder and CEO Kedar Belhe did not respond to requests for comment. But according to the company’s website, a second-gen liner that can stay in the body longer may be on the horizon, and the groundwork is being laid for U.S. approval of th... |
16.04.2014 | Stanford BioDesign spinout raises $644K Series A round for mini-laparoscopy tools | “Surgeons assemble and use as many of these modular instruments as needed, and after surgery the patient is left with a hidden incision in the belly button and a few tiny punctures, which will heal quickly and without noticeable scars.”
If ... |
13.11.2013 | EXCLUSIVE: STJ Senior VP on three important changes to medical device industry in Asia | St. Jude Medical (STJ) has had a strong presence in Asia dating back to the medical device company’s creation of the first mechanical heart valve, STJ’s Senior Vice President in Asia and President of STJ Japan Bill Phillips said. In the pas... |
05.11.2013 | Six year slump: WSJ gets into nitty gritty of medical device funding drought | The total number of investment deals in med-tech is projected to fall by a third this year from 2007, the data from PwC and the National Venture Capital Association show.
Had venture investment not been cratering in 2011, (Allan) May said, ... |
29.10.2013 | TCT 2013: St. Jude Medical’s Portico valve looks good at 30 days | Minnesota medical device maker St. Jude Medical (NYSE:STJ) this week released results from clinical trials of its 23 mm and 25 mm Portico transcatheter aortic valve implantation devices, touting patient health improvements and low adverse e... |
24.10.2013 | What Starbucks, #PSL and Teavana can teach top medical device companies | Many of the top medical device companies are still only selling coffee. But there are a few things these industry giants can learn to sell an experience like Starbucks. (Hint: The patients are consumers now.)
1. Create a sense of community.... |
22.10.2013 | 3-D St. Jude Medical launches technology that gives docs real-time, 360-degree view of arteries | St. Jude says it’s the only medical device company with all these tools available in an integrated platform.
“It works by integrating both Fractional Flow Reserve (FFR) technology to measure blood flow blockage inside the coronary arteries ... |
26.08.2013 | Are recalls preventable? 5 smart comments from a LinkedIn conversation you should be following | Alan Wu at Genzyme is one of many in the conversation to add actionable tips for preventing the kinds of mistakes that create recalls in the first place.
President of SoCal Preclinical Services Paul Stein asks how the tight medtech job mark... |
21.08.2013 | BSX gets FDA approval for ablation catheter, becomes third major player this week with ablation milestone | Covid-19’s terrible toll on diabetes patients. What can be done?
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20.08.2013 | St. Jude Medical Acquires Endosense | St. Jude Medical (NYSE: STJ), a St.Paul, Minnesota-based a global medical device company, acquired Endosense, a Geneva, Switzerland-based medical technology company focused on treating cardiac arrhythmias.
St. Jude Medical will initially pa... |
19.08.2013 | St. Jude Medical acquires Endosense for up to CHF309 million | |
19.07.2013 | Minnesota company raises $29.6 million for implantable hypertension technology | According to the regulatory filing, Med Dev’s officers include Brintnall, formerly of Survivalink; President and CEO Nadim Yared, formerly of Intio, Inc., VP and General Manager of Medtronic Navigation, and GE Healthcare; Founder and CTO Dr... |
17.07.2012 | St. Jude’s first-to-market quadripolar defibrillator heads to Japan | St. Jude Medical’s (NYSE:STJ) Unify Quadra hit the market in Japan, notching one more country on the device’s global tour.
In October 2009 the Minnesota-based health care giant won CE Mark approval in the European Union for the Unify Quadra... |
05.03.2012 | Medtronic wins CE Mark for MRI-safe leads | Medtronic (NYSE:MDT) won CE Mark approval in the European Union for its latest-generation MRI-friendly pacemaker lead set, the CapSure Sense MRI SureScan.
The leads are the smallest available in the world that allow patients to undergo MRI ... |
29.08.2011 | The MassDevice Weekly Checkup: August 29, 2010 | Our Weekly Checkup takes the temperature of the medical device industry’s three largest U.S. clusters: Massachusetts, California and Minnesota.
The MassDevice Indices are weighted according to market capitalization, based on the number of s... |
24.07.2011 | New hypertension treatment from St. Jude Medical? STJ’s CEO stays coy | J.P. Morgan analyst Michael Weinstein was hoping to get some more information about St. Jude Medical (NYSE:STJ) Wednesday.
Instead, he was greeted by a simile.
“We are like the duck that looks calm on the surface with the feet pedaling furi... |
20.07.2011 | New hypertension treatment from St. Jude Medical? STJ’s CEO stays coy | Renal denervation is used to treat hypertension, or high blood pressure, by the ablation of the nerves that line the renal arteries using a catheter.
In his prepared remarks before taking questions from analysts, Stark described renal dener... |
18.07.2011 | The MassDevice Weekly Checkup: July 18, 2010 | Our Weekly Checkup takes the temperature of the medical device industry’s three largest U.S. clusters: Massachusetts, California and Minnesota.
The MassDevice Indices are weighted according to market capitalization, based on the number of s... |
06.07.2011 | The MassDevice Weekly Checkup: July 6, 2011 | Our Weekly Checkup takes the temperature of the medical device industry’s three largest U.S. clusters: Massachusetts, California and Minnesota.
The MassDevice Indices are weighted according to market capitalization, based on the number of s... |
27.06.2011 | The MassDevice Weekly Checkup: June 27, 2010 | Our Weekly Checkup takes the temperature of the medical device industry’s three largest U.S. clusters: Massachusetts, California and Minnesota.
The MassDevice Indices are weighted according to market capitalization, based on the number of s... |
13.06.2011 | The MassDevice Weekly Checkup: June 13, 2011 | Our Weekly Checkup takes the temperature of the medical device industry’s three largest U.S. clusters: Massachusetts, California and Minnesota.
The MassDevice Indices are weighted according to market capitalization, based on the number of s... |
09.05.2011 | The MassDevice Weekly Checkup: May 9, 2010 | Our Weekly Checkup takes the temperature of the medical device industry’s three largest U.S. clusters: Massachusetts, California and Minnesota.
The MassDevice Indices are weighted according to market capitalization, based on the number of s... |
25.04.2011 | St. Jude Medical gets $2.3B in case of stolen trade secrets | Zou allegedly owns a 47.5 percent stake in Nervicon and runs the company, founded 15 days before Zou resigned from St. Jude. Zou spent six years at St. Jude, which spent five years and thousands of dollars helping him land a green card, acc... |
04.04.2011 | The MassDevice Weekly Checkup: March 4, 2011 | Our Weekly Checkup takes the temperature of the medical device industry’s three largest U.S. clusters: Massachusetts, California and Minnesota.
The MassDevice Indices are weighted according to market capitalization, based on the number of s... |
14.02.2011 | St. Jude Medical gets $5M after long court battle with Volcano Corp. | Little Canada, Minn.-based St. Jude bought Westford, Mass.-based LightLab for $90 million last summer.
Hinkle’s decision also bars Volcano from finalizing its acquisition of Axsun, which it moved to buy out in 2008, until April 2014. But th... |
13.01.2011 | St. Jude launches joint cardiac ultrasound system with Zonare | Promoted
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28.09.2010 | The MassDevice Weekly Checkup: September 28, 2010 | Our Weekly Checkup takes the temperature of the medical device industry’s three largest U.S. clusters: Massachusetts, California and Minnesota.
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21.09.2010 | The MassDevice Weekly Checkup: September 21, 2010 | Our Weekly Checkup takes the temperature of the medical device industry’s three largest U.S. clusters: Massachusetts, California and Minnesota.
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15.09.2010 | St. Jude Medical expands in Costa Rica | St. Jude Medical Inc. (NYSE:STJ) made good on its plans to open a plant in the El Coyol Free Zone in Alajuela, Costa Rica, to make heart valves.
The Little Canada, Minn.-based medical device company plans to invest an estimated $670 million... |
03.08.2010 | St. Jude Medical, cardiologist and salesman son accused in fraud | A California state judge has tossed bids to dismiss fraud, conspiracy and medical malpractice charges against St. Jude Medical Inc. (NYSE:STJ) and two individuals, allowing the case against the medical device manufacturer to proceed.
Attorn... |
16.06.2010 | AtriCure stock rises 20 percent on approval news | By Mary Vanac
Shares of West Chester, Ohio-based AtriCure Inc. (NASDAQ:ATRC) rose more than 20 percent Tuesday, a day after the Food & Drug Administration approved the company’s AtriClip system for sale in the United States.
AtriCure sh... |
15.06.2010 | AtriCure: A superhero wearing an underdog’s uniform? | In May, during his company’s first-quarter conference call with analysts, Drachman estimated the U.S. market for the AtriClip Gillinov-Cosgrove Left Atrial Appendage Exclusion System at “approximately 185,000 patients representing a market ... |
21.04.2010 | Boston Scientific’s defib woes boost St. Jude Medical’s Q1 results | By Thomas Lee
There’s no love lost between St. Jude Medical Inc. (NYSE:STJ) and Boston Scientific Corp. (NYSE:BSX). The two rivals have clashed over sales and salespeople.
So it’s no surprise that St. Jude officials invented a special phras... |
22.02.2010 | The MassDevice Weekly Checkup: February 23, 2010 | Our Weekly Checkup takes the temperature of the medical device industry’s three largest U.S. clusters: Massachusetts, California and Minnesota.
The MassDevice Indices are weighted according to market capitalization, based on the number of s... |
20.02.2010 | Acquisition stimulates St. Jude Medical | By Thomas Lee
LITTLE CANADA, Minnesota– Earlier this month, St. Jude Medical Inc. (NYSE:STJ) marked a 30-year history of developing neurostimulation technology at the American Academy of Pain Medicine’s annual meeting.
But in truth, St. Jud... |
19.02.2010 | Smooth acquisition powers St. Jude Medical’s neurostimulation business | Promoted
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02.02.2010 | AtriCure to pay $3.8 million to settle Justice Department claims | AtriCure on Tuesday declined to elaborate on the terms of its definitive agreement with the Justice Department, saying the terms are “substantially identical” to those disclosed in November. Then, the company said it had set aside $3.8 mill... |
28.01.2010 | Is St. Jude losing the CRM battle to Boston Scientific and Medtronic? | By Thomas Lee
LITTLE CANADA, Minnesota – It’s no secret that pacemakers and defibrillators are no longer a hot growth market. Most estimates peg global sales at growing low to mid single digits for the foreseeable future.
But for St. Jude M... |
28.01.2010 | Study another positive sign for catheter ablation advocates | Medical device manufacturers seeking regulatory clearances to expand catheter ablation as a treatment for atrial fibrillation got a boost from a new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Assn.
The 19-center study compared t... |
12.01.2010 | Supremes rebuff Boston Scientific appeal | The U.S Supreme Court dashed Boston Scientific Corp.’s (NYSE:BSX) hopes of collecting damages from St. Jude Medical (NYSE:STJ) in a long-running patent infringement battle over pacemaker technology.
The Supremes declined to hear Boston Scie... |
29.12.2009 | Annual Checkup: The gainers and losers in medical device stocks this year | All year our Weekly Checkup calculated the biggest gainers and losers among publicly traded medical device companies, comparing Monday morning’s opening share prices with their value when the markets close each Friday afternoon. As 2009 dra... |
24.09.2009 | Cleveland Clinic surgeon joins scientific board of vascular device company | Promoted
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14.09.2009 | St. Jude Medical gets FDA approval for updated cardiac mapping system | Promoted
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15.07.2009 | Minnesota legislator will re-try incentive package, inspired by small biotech departures | “What is the next St. Jude Medical? What is the next Medtronic?” Saltzman said. “Anyone — state, county, anyone — if they think we don’t have to continue to work on being the best and we just can coast on our past successes we’re in tro... |
07.01.2005 | Scientific Generics commended for design collaborations on two 'world-first' products | Scientific Generics commended for design collaborations on two 'world-first' products
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Scientific Generics was highly commended for its design collaborations on two world firsts at the recent 2005 International CES Innovations Des... |
- | Are recalls preventable? 5 smart comments from a LinkedIn conversation you should be following | Last week, we learned Q2’13 saw a five-period spike in medical device recalls. On LinkedIn a few weeks prior, Medical Devices Group leader Joe Hage posed this question to the group: “Are recalls preventable?” The discussion that follows is ... |
- | 3-D St. Jude Medical launches technology that gives docs real-time, 360-degree view of arteries | St. Jude Medical (STJ) announced FDA approval of its ILUMIEN OPTIS PCI Optimization System, and the product’s U.S. launch. The device gives physicians a real-time, 360-degree panoramic view of the arteries, to help with stent placement and ... |
- | Six year slump: WSJ gets into nitty gritty of medical device funding drought | While it’s no secret venture capital for the medical device industry is drying up, The Wall Street Journal takes a look at how to fund a medical device in the face of such a rough market. Unfortunately they don’t come up with any new ideas:... |
- | Minnesota legislator will re-try incentive package, inspired by small biotech departures | ST. PAUL, Minnesota –Many states aspire to have a medical industry like Minnesota’s. It turns out Minnesota wants what many other states have as well.
Legislators, spurred in part by the recent departure of small biotech companies to Wiscon... |
- | Minnesota company raises $29.6 million for implantable hypertension technology | CVRx, a Minneapolis-based firm that has developed proprietary implantable technology for the treatment of high blood pressure and heart failure, has raised $29.6 million for advancing clinical trials of its Barostim Neo, as well as expandin... |
- | BSX gets FDA approval for ablation catheter, becomes third major player this week with ablation milestone | Boston Scientific (BSX) announced it has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval for its IntellaTip MiFi XP catheter and 501(k) clearance for its Zurpaz 8.5F steerable sheath, growing its EP mapping/ablation technology portfolio... |
- | Cleveland Clinic surgeon joins scientific board of vascular device company | CLEVELAND, Ohio — Dr. A. Marc Gillinov, who leads the Cleveland Clinic’s Center for Atrial Fibrillation, has joined the scientific advisory board of the New Jersey device company Endovalve.
Endovalve is developing a minimally invasive repla... |
- | New hypertension treatment from St. Jude Medical? STJ’s CEO stays coy | J.P. Morgan analyst Michael Weinstein was hoping to get some more information about St. Jude Medical’s (NYSE:STJ) efforts in treating hypertension from company officials who were discussing the Minnesota company’s second-quarter performance... |
- | Boston Scientific gives deep brain stimulation a new look | The FDA just cleared Boston Scientific’s deep brain stimulation (DBS) system, Vercise, which treats Parkinson’s disease symptoms, such as involuntary movement, muscle rigidity and tremors. While the device has been marketed in Europe and ot... |
- | Device company with focus on Type 2 diabetes treatment raises another $150K | Minnesota medical device company MetaModix has raised $150,000 in equity between three undisclosed investors, according to a regulatory filing made with the SEC. The startup, which is working to develop an intestinal liner implant as a Type... |
- | St. Jude launches joint cardiac ultrasound system with Zonare | Two months after it announced a development agreement with an up-and-coming ultrasound technology company, St. Jude Medical (NYSE:STJ) has launched a faster, more portable intracardiac ultrasound system designed for taking images inside the... |
- | For Endotronix, a digital health medtech startup, FDA has dual identities | Endotronix makes the wireless, implantable pulmonary artery pressure sensor to monitor chronic heart failure patients. FDA wants a pivotal trial to tests its effectiveness
Last week Endotronix, a digital health medtech startup based in Lisl... |
- | Stanford BioDesign spinout raises $644K Series A round for mini-laparoscopy tools | Chicago medical device startup Miret Surgical has raised a Series A round of $644,750 in equity for further product development, CEO John Avi Roop said. The 4-year-old Stanford BioDesign spinout is at work on laparoscopic tools that connect... |
- | EXCLUSIVE: STJ Senior VP on three important changes to medical device industry in Asia | St. Jude Medical (STJ) has had a strong presence in Asia dating back to the medical device company’s creation of the first mechanical heart valve, STJ’s Senior Vice President in Asia and President of STJ Japan Bill Phillips said. In the pas... |
- | Smooth acquisition powers St. Jude Medical’s neurostimulation business | Image via Wikipedia
LITTLE CANADA, Minnesota — Earlier this month, St. Jude Medical Inc. marked a 30-year history of developing neurostimulation technology at the American Academy of Pain Medicine’s annual meeting.
But in truth, St. Jude’s... |
- | FDA gives nod to first fully-removable percutaneous peripheral nerve stimulation device | On Wednesday, Boston Scientific announced that it’s acquiring a company that makes radio-frequency ablation devices, underscoring the need to offer medtech alternatives to treating chronic pain, which is overwhelmingly addressed by drugs.
A... |
- | How can the in vitro diagnostics industry tap the growth potential of integrated delivery networks? | Integrated delivery networks (IDNs) provide healthcare across the continuum for a geographic region. Typically, they include hospitals and provider networks and may include skilled nursing or long-term rehab facilities, specialty clinics, a... |
- | St. Jude Medical gets FDA approval for updated cardiac mapping system | ST. PAUL, Minnesota — The U.S. Food & Drug Administration has approved a new version of St. Jude Medical’s cardiac mapping tool: EnSite Velocity Cardiac Mapping System.
St. Jude acquired the technology in 2004 and has had a version on t... |
- | AtriCure: A superhero wearing an underdog’s uniform? | Shares of West Chester, Ohio-based AtriCure Inc. (NASDAQ: ATRC) rose more than 20 percent Tuesday, a day after the Food and Drug Administration approved the company’s AtriClip system for sale in the United States.
AtriCure shares rose as hi... |
- | AtriCure to pay $3.8 million to settle Justice Department claims | Updated 6:53 p.m.
WEST CHESTER, Ohio — AtriCure Inc. has agreed to pay the federal government $3.76 million to settle claims that it promoted its surgical cardiac ablation devices for unapproved uses, the Justice Department said today in a ... |
- | What Starbucks, #PSL and Teavana can teach top medical device companies | As global medical device companies try to take on more of the care continuum, they might be able to turn to that little Starbucks coffee shop just around the corner. It might seem sacrilege to compare the intricacies of neuromodulation with... |