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Accuray CEO Euan Thomson quits company, replaced by Joshua Levine

October 12, 2012 by MassDevice staff

Euan Thomson abruptly resigns from Sunnyvale, Calif.-based medical device maker Accuray, will be replaced by former Mentor Corp., Immucor CEO.

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Medical device company Accuray (NSDQ:ARAY) said CEO Euan Thomson has left the company and will be replaced by Joshua Levine, the former CEO of Mentor Corp. and Immucor.

Cancer: Accuray's losses widen as it prepares for "major technology launch"

September 10, 2012 by MassDevice staff

Medical device maker Accuray reports that its losses jumped 170% during fiscal 2012, cautioning that Q1 results will be dramatically lower as it ramps up for a new product launch this fall.

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Medical device company Accuray (NSDQ:ARAY) said it's completed a "year of transition" as it looks to the release of 2 new products in October, which it says will help "change the dynamic" of the radiosurgery market.

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Medtronic: Defibrillator market is stabilizing | Wall Street Beat

September 6, 2012 by MassDevice staff

The prolonged slump in the U.S. defibrillator market appears to have stabilized, according to medical device company Medtronic.

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Medtronic (NYSE:MDT) said the slump that's hit its bread-and-butter cardiac rhythm management division where it hurts appears to have stabilized, despite the 5% sales slide during its fiscal 1st quarter.

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Battle in Silicon Valley: Device makers trade barbs in the fight to gain share in robot assisted procedures

August 16, 2012 by Arezu Sarvestani

The best way to beat Intuitive Surgical out of the corner it has on the prostate cancer treatment market is by amping up the aggression, radiosurgery veteran and Varian chief medical officer John Adler tells MassDevice.com.

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Radiosurgery innovator and medtech veteran John Adler is ready for a fight.

The outspoken inventor of Accuray's (NSDQ:ARAY) CyberKnife system, as well as the company's founder and former CEO, Adler is an evangelist for radiosurgery and its potential in a variety of applications.

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Study: Robot assisted prostate surgery may lower rates of incontinence, impotence

August 9, 2012 by MassDevice staff

Prostate surgery with robotic assistance may cause less impotence and incontinence than laparoscopic surgery, according to a small Italian study.

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Robot assisted prostate surgery may lower rates of urinary incontinence and post-surgery impotence when compared with minimally invasive laparoscopy, according to a small Italian study.

The study only comprised 120 patients who were randomized to receive a prostatectomy with either an unnamed robot assistant or with tiny tools manipulated by hand. All surgeries were performed by a single surgeon.

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Cyberknife: Man, that robot sure can dance

July 23, 2012 by MassDevice

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In this 2009 video from the American Society of Radiation Oncology annual meeting, employees from Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Accuray (NSDQ:ARAY) show off their dance moves.

Accuray nabs imaging systems maker Morphormics for $5.7M

July 16, 2012 by MassDevice staff

Radiosurgery devices company Accuray acquires medical imaging software systems maker Morphormics in a deal worth about $5.7 million.

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Accuray (NSDQ:ARAY) signed a definitive agreement to acquire medical imaging software systems maker Morphormics for $5.7 million, the company announced today.

Privately held Morphormics, founded by faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, develops software that recognizes and extracts anatomical structures from medical images.

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