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Here are the top 5 medtech stories of mid-2018
A growing U.S. trade war with China and other countries casts a pall on medtech — and U.S. business in general — in mid-2018. The landscape of the medical device industry continues to evolve, though. There’s a major corporate spinout in the works, as well as a mega-merger that apparently was not to be. Read […]
AngioDynamics CEO Clemmer is on the M&A trail
AngioDynamics (NSDQ:ANGO) CEO Jim Clemmer said the company is actively walking the M&A trail as it looks at markets with unmet needs and high margins. Latham, N.Y.-based AngioDynamics posted fiscal fourth-quarter results July 11 that missed Wall Street’s expectations, sending share prices down some -9% this week despite a swing to black ink. During a conference […]
Asahi Intecc to buy RetroVascular for $26m
Asahi Intecc said early this month that its board of directors agreed to acquire RetroVascular in a deal worth approximately $25.9 million. Menlo Park, Calif.-based RetroVascular is developing cardiological tools for percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty procedures, specifically to treat chronic total occlusions. Asahi said that it has maintained a collaborative relationship with RetroVascular to develop […]
Gerresheimer to acquire Sensile Medical and its drug-delivery tech
Gerresheimer plans to acquire Swiss medical technology company Sensile Medical and its array of liquid drug delivery devices. The buyout is a perfect fit in Gerresheimer’s portfolio, the company explained, since it will boost Gerresheimer’s drug delivery offerings and add new digital and electronic capabilities into the mix. Get the full story at our sister site, Drug Delivery […]
Otsuka to acquire renal denervation firm ReCor Medical
Otsuka Holdings (TYO:4578) said today that it plans to acquire the remaining stake it doesn’t already own in ReCor Medical and the renal denervation device it’s developing to treat hypertension. Tokyo-based Otsuka led ReCor’s $15 million Series D in April 2015 to back Palo Alto, Calif.- and Amsterdam-based ReCor’s Radiance-HTN study, which will test its Paradise system in patients […]
Breast implant makers Polytech, G&G ink stock-swap merger pact
Silicone breast-implant makers Polytech Health & Aesthetics and G&G Biotechnology are getting together in a stock-swap merger. G&G designed the world’s first lightweight breast implant, the B-Lite, to reduce the impact of gravity on the reconstructed or augmented breast using technology developed by NASA to make its implants up to 30% lighter. The company sells its products in […]
Bovie Medical to deal core electro-cautery biz to Symmetry Surgical for $97m
Bovie Medical (NYSE:BVX) shares rode a roller coaster today on the news that it’s dealing its core electro-cautery business to Symmetry Surgical for $97 million and is on track to beat estimates with its second-quarter sales. Clearwater, Fla.-based Bovie, which is making a pivot toward the cosmetic surgery market, said the all-cash deal for the electrosurgical and […]
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