Becton, Dickinson and Company Announces Worldwide Voluntary Recall of BD Q-Syte(TM) Luer Access Devices and BD Nexiva(TM) Closed IV Catheter Systems

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

Synovis Life Technologies, Inc. Receives FDA Marketing Clearance for Flow Coupler(R)

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

Montagu Considers Eur 2 Billion IPO for

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

Poly Medicure Plans Rs 40 Cr Expansion in Medical Devices Segment

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

Banyan Biomarkers Announces New Chief Executive Officer

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

SenoRx, Inc. Announces CEO to Take Medical Leave of Absence

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

Abbott Diagnostics Submits New Automated Ovarian Cancer Test for U.S. Approval

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

Medtronic, Inc. Donates Medical Supplies to Haiti Relief Effort

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

CMA Microdialysis AB Acquires Industry Leader DiLab, Inc.

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

Pfizer Inc. and QIAGEN N.V. Unit DxS Ltd Enter Into An Agreement To Develop A Companion Diagnostic For Brain Tumor Patients

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

FDA Issues Guidance to Help Streamline Medical Device Clinical Trials

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

Tecan and Enigma Diagnostics Sign Global Manufacturing and Supply Agreement for Point-of-Care Molecular Diagnostics Instruments

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

Kern Bhugra, Cofounder of Tibion Corporation, Resigns

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

Study Suggests Medtronic, Inc.'s Slide-On EndoSheath System Provides Several Advantages over Traditional Germicidal Immersion

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

Inverness Medical Innovations, Inc. to Buy Drug Abuse Testing Firm, Marsh & McLennan's Kroll Laboratory Unit for $110 Million

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

Sorin Group S.p.A. Announces Market Release and First Implant of Next-Generation Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Defibrillator

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

Novus Scientific Receives FDA Clearance for TIGR(TM) Matrix Surgical Mesh - World's 1st Long-Term Resorbable Synthetic Mesh

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

Serica Technologies Acquired by Allergan Inc.

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

Novel Tissue Regeneration Technologies Added to Allergans Breast Aesthetic and Reconstructive Surgery Portfolio / New Company Created from Orthopedic and Veterinary Assets

MEDFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Morningside Technology Ventures, Prism VentureWorks, and Ivy Capital Partners are pleased to announce the acquisition of their portfolio company, Serica Technologies, Inc. by Allergan, Inc...

Cardiac Science Corporation to Recall 12,200 Faulty Defibrillators

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

Polymedco: Advanced High Throughput Automated Immunoassay Fecal Occult Blood Test (FIT) System Receives FDA Clearance

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

Japan's Nipro Corporation to Buy Home Diagnostics, Inc. for $215 Million

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

St. Jude Medical Announces European Approval of Smaller, Higher Power ICD and CRT-D Devices with New Heart Failure Monitors

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

IMRIS to Acquire MR-Compatible Surgical Robot Technology

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

CancerGuide Diagnostics Secures $10.5 Million Private Financing Agreement

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

Toshiba America Medical Systems Receives FDA Clearance for Viamo Ultrasound System

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

Abiomed Posts Narrower Loss, Trims FY Revenue View

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

Radient Pharmaceuticals Announces Onko-Sure In Vitro Diagnostic Cancer Test Sales for Q1 2010 on Track; Company Provides Product Sales Update

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

Linden Acquires Hycor Biomedical Business from Agilent Technologies Inc.

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

US Warns Millipore Corporation on H1N1 Flu Test Promotion

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

Valtech Cardio Raises $17.8 Million

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

CPSI Biotech Expanding; Company Plans to Add 20 New Jobs

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

Shina Systems Receives U.S. FDA 510(k) Clearance for its 3Di Cloud-based Medical Imaging Advanced (3D/4D) Visualization Solution

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

NxStage Medical, Inc. and Sign Distribution Agreement for the System One(TM)

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

Ground Breaking Molecular Diagnostics Business, D3 Technologies Ltd Appoints New CEO

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

SPO Medical Completes Restructuring Plan; Involves Reduction of the Company's Corporate and Manufacturing Workforce

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

Boston Scientific Corporation to Pay Johnson & Johnson $1.73 Billion in Settlement

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

Mesynthes Obtains U.S. FDA 510(k) Clearance for Endoform Dermal Template

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

Medicis Receives Approval for RESTYLANE(R) and PERLANE(R) With Lidocaine

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

Federal Funding for Local Medical Plant Cook Canton; Could Create 250 New Jobs

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

Elbit Imaging Ltd. Evaluating Establishment of a Subsidiary to Hold its Bio-Tech and Medical Investments

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

STAAR Surgical Company's Visian(R) ICL(TM) is First Phakic Lens to Be Approved in Japan

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

Thermo Fisher Scientific Signs Agreement to Acquire High-Performance PCR Solution Provider,

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

Alphatec Spine Receives CE Mark for its OsseoScrew(TM) Spinal Fixation System and Its GLIF/ ARC(TM) Portal Access System

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

Veran Medical Technologies Receives FDA Clearances to Expand Uses for ig4 Navigation System to Use Ultrasound and 3D Fluoroscopic X-ray

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

Life Technologies Completes Divestiture of Mass Spectrometry Business

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

Danaher Completes Acquisition of AB SCIEX and Molecular Devices Corporation

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Danaher Corporation announced today that it has completed the previously announced acquisition of AB SCIEX and Molecular Devices. AB SCIEX is a leading designer and manufacturer of mass spectrometers, highly sensitive and sophisticated instruments used by researchers and clinicians to identify and quantify specific molecules in complex samples...

BioBehavioral Diagnostics Completes First Close of $10 Million Series B Financing

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

PLYMOUTH MEETING, Pa. and WESTFORD, Mass., Feb. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- BioBehavioral Diagnostics (BioBDx), a privately held company which manufactures and markets the Quotient(TM) ADHD System, a tool that aids in the objective and accurate assessment of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), announced today the first close of a $10 million Series B financing. Sevin Rosen and Tullis...

NanoInk, Inc.'s Nano BioDiscovery Division Launches Premiere Nanoscale Protein Array Assay

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

FDA And Edwards Lifesciences Issue Class I Recall Of Hemodialysis System

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

EnteroMedics Plans New Clinical Trial

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

ST. PAUL, Minn. - (Business Wire) EnteroMedics Inc. (NASDAQ: ETRM), the developer of medical devices using neuroblocking technology to treat obesity and other gastrointestinal disorders, announced today that, following a recent meeting with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to discuss the Companys EMPOWER study results and the regulatory process, the Company intends to submit an Investigational...

Asuragen, Inc. Establishes Multi-Center Collaborations with Key Researchers for Development of Diagnostic Test for Pancreatic Cancer

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

Hanger Orthopedic Group, Inc. Incentives Approved; to Create More Than 300 Jobs In the Next Six Years

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

BG Medicine Plans IPO for $86.3 Million

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

Thermo Fisher Scientific Brings Jobs With Lab Expansion

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

WIFR -- In this lab on the third floor at 'Thermo Fisher Scientific', scientists are researching and developing how different cells interact with diseases. Much of their work is related to healthcare. They make tools that help with diagnostics and pharmaceuticals. The bio tech company just started using this 35,000 square-foot new addition a week ago.

QuantRx Biomedical Corporation to Acquire NuRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

OYLESTOWN, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--QuantRx Biomedical Corporation (OTCBB: QTXB) today announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire NuRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (OTCBB: NUXP - News). The transaction is structured as a tax-free, all stock acquisition resulting in a combined company with no debt and a simplified ownership and capital structure. QuantRx expects to benefit from a strengthened...

RSB Spine Announces FDA Clearance for Its InterPlate(TM) C-PS and L-PS Interbody Spacers

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

Pioneer Surgical Technology Announces New Expansion Plan New Office in Austin, New Jobs Expected

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

Pioneer's global headquarters in Marquette, MI currently coordinates activity at physical properties located in Raleigh and Greenville, North Carolina, Woburn, Massachusetts, and the Netherlands. According to Pioneer's President and CEO Jeff Millin, "Logistically, Sawyer International Airport sufficiently addresses our global shipping requirements but limited commercial flights...

Cepheid Posts Narrower Quarterly Loss

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

Collaboration Seals the Deal: is Opening in Akron, 25-30 New Jobs

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

Life Spine Announces FDA Clearance of DYNA-LINK(R) Spinal System and PRESIDIO(TM) Spinal Plating System

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

Neomend, Inc Completes $30M Funding with Other Investors

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

Aubrey Inc. Receives FDA Clearance for AWBAT Plus

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

BG Medicine Announces Receipt of CE Mark for its Galectin-3 Blood Test

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

Notal Vision's ForeseeHome(TM) AMD Monitor Receives FDA Clearance

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

General Electric Company Gets National Institutes of Health (NIH) Grant to Build a Better MRI Magnet

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

Varian Medical Systems Profit Rises, Shares Up

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

Calibra Medical Inc. Receives 510(k) Clearance for the Finesse Insulin Patch-Pen, a Novel Way to Deliver Insulin

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

FDA Approves Medtronic, Inc.'s First Percutaneous Heart Valve

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

The PICC WAND from Access Scientific Receives FDA Clearance

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

World Heart Corporation Completes $7.3 Million Private Placement

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

FDA Clears Church & Dwight Co., Inc.'s FIRST RESPONSE Early Result Pregnancy Test

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

Varian Medical Systems Receives Certification to Assemble X-Ray Tubes in China

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

St. Jude Medical Posts Profit vs. Loss, Sales Up 6%

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

Stryker Corporation Earnings In Line on Solid Device Sales

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

Medicsight Receives Additional Information Request for FDA 510(k) Clearance

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

Baylor Health Care System, US Oncology, Inc. to Hire 900 for New Venture in Lewisville, Texas

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

Dallas Business Journal -- A proposed laboratory testing and molecular diagnostics facility affiliated with the Baylor Health Care System has selected a location in Lewisville, where it plans to eventually employ more than 900 people and have an annual payroll of $67 million.

Medtronic, Inc. to Buy Invatec for $350 Million

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

Theratechnologies Inc. Says FDA Delays Fat Drug Review Date

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

Phadia AB Brings the First and Only Point of Care In Vitro Specific IgE Allergy Test with Final FDA Clearance of the ImmunoCAP(R) Rapid System

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

Medical Acoustics, LLC Receives FDA 510(k) Clearance of Therapeutic Lung Flute(R)

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

SRS Medical Systems Acquires EvaCare(R) Pessaries from Coloplast

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

Salient Surgical Technologies Secures $15.1 Million in Series G Financing Round

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

Abbott Laboratories Submits New HIV Test to FDA for Expedited Review

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

Maquet Cardiovascular LLC Announces Long-Term Follow-Up Data from Landmark 'SMART' Study Reinforce Positive Results for Patients Undergoing Off-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

Synthes, Inc., Cochlear Limited Pursue Siemens Unit -According to Sources

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

Vermillion Emerges From Bankruptcy

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

US FDA Objects to General Electric Company Unit's Imaging Drug Claims

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

Reuters -- General Electric Co's (GE.N) healthcare unit made misleading claims about an imaging drug on a company website, U.S. health officials said in a letter released on Friday.

Nipro Medical Corporation Issues a Voluntary Recall of All GlucoPro Insulin Syringes

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

LTW Technologies Receives 5 FDA Clearances

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

Johnson & Johnson's Ethicon, Inc. Inhales Sinus Device Maker Acclarent, Inc. for $785 Million; Acquisition Completed

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

Quest Diagnostics Inc. Profit Rises 7 Percent

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

Intuitive Surgical, Inc. Profit Far Exceeds Expectations

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

A Shot in the Arm as Randox Creates 23 New Jobs

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

Boston Scientific Corporation : Court Finds Johnson & Johnson Patents Invalid

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

NATICK, Mass., Jan. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Boston Scientific Corporation announced today that the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware has found all four patents in a suit involving Johnson & Johnson to be invalid.

The Court ruled today that a trial on the four patents, which was scheduled to begin February 9, will not proceed.

World Heart Corporation to Raise $7.3 Million in Private Placement

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

Solos Endoscopy, Inc. Reports a 9% Increase in Sales for the 4th Quarter 2009 as Compared to 4th Quarter 2008

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

BOSTON, Jan. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Solos Endoscopy, Inc. is pleased to announce the Company has generated $125,791 in sales transactions for the fourth quarter of 2009 versus $115,159 in sales transactions that Solos generated for the fourth quarter of 2008, which is a 9 percent increase.

Solos Endoscopy generates its revenues through the sale of its extensive...

CareFusion Corporation to Donate $3.1 Million in Products for Ongoing Earthquake Relief Efforts in Haiti

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

Medtronic, Inc. Pledges $1 Million to Haiti Earthquake Relief

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

Thoratec Corporation Heart Pump Gets FDA Nod; to Conduct 2 Studies

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

FDA Names Permanent Chief of Devices Unit

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

Abaxis, Inc. Receives FDA 510K Clearance for a New Clinical Assay, C-Reactive Protein

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

FDA Approves for Permanent Treatment of Advanced Heart Failure Assist Device Pioneered by Texas Heart Institute at St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

Genomic Health, Inc. Announces Worldwide Availability of the Oncotype DX(R) Colon Cancer Test

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

Ingen Opens Doors With Hospital Purchases

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

Gambro AB Announces Agreement to Acquire CHF Solutions, Inc.

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

DENVER, Jan. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Gambro and CHF Solutions, Inc. (CHF) announced today that Gambro has acquired CHF, a medical device company that manufactures and distributes ultrafiltration devices to treat fluid overload.

"Gambro and CHF share a common dedication to pioneering life-saving therapies for patients," says Nick Mendez, President of the Gambro Acute Business...

Covidien Quarterly Profit Beats Wall Street View

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

NuOrtho Surgical, Inc. Expands Financing, Awaits FDA Approval

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

Rosetta Genomics Ltd. Closes $5.1 Million Financing; Will Support Ongoing Development of microRNA-based Diagnostic Pipeline

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

Neomend, Inc's ProGEL Lung Surgery Device Gets FDA Approval

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

Inverness Medical Innovations, Inc. Sells Nutritionals Business

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

Diamyd Medical AB Executes a 2:1 Division of Shares (a Split)

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT

RCT and Zassi Medical Evolutions Form Leto Medical, LLC