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NewsJustice probes biliary stent marketing
The U.S. Department of Justice has launched a probe of the bile-duct stent market, trying to determine whether companies such as Abbott Laboratories, Boston Scientific and Johnson & Johnson Read more...
Zimmer device prompts database push
SPOTLIGHT: Zimmer device prompts database pushLast week, Zimmer suspended sales of a hip-replacement device after doctors complained that some patients found the joint socket extremely painful. This Read more...
Reps introduce anti-preemption bill
They said they would, and now they have: two Democratic Congressmen have introduced a bill that explicit allows consumers to sue medical device makers under state law. You'll recall that in February Read more...
Boston Sci CEO plans to stick around
Tobin, Tobin, he's our man. Or so says Boston Scientific. The device maker says chief executive Jim Tobin will be "extending his tenure," planning to stay with the company "for the foreseeable Read more...
Zimmer mulls $250M in doc-contract buyoutsYou've heard of sports teams buying out their coaches' contracts. Well, now there's a device maker considering buying out its deals with surgeons. In a move designed to clear up legal troubles Read more...GAO assails FDA's foreign inspections
Oh, woe is the FDA. The Government Accountability Office is set to release a new report on the agency's terrifically Read more...
Supreme Court to hear Pfizer liability case
Do states have any business policing drugs? We're about to find out. The Supreme Court has agreed to hear Pfizer's appeal in a product liability suit originally brought in a Michigan court, but Read more...
Stent-makers get more bad news
Go ahead, kick them while they're down. Britain's National Health Service may stop paying for drug-coated stents, products that already are Read more...
Boston Scientific deals with debt
No need to sell the farm--or at least not all of it. Embattled medical device maker Boston Read more...
| Press ReleasesPRESS RELEASE: Kyphon Stockholders Approve Merger with Medtronic Kyphon Stockholders Approve Merger with Medtronic SUNNYVALE, Calif., Oct 16, 2007 -- Kyphon announced today that its stockholders approved the adoption of the merger agreement with Medtronic at a Read more... |
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