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The MassDevice Weekly Checkup: September 15, 2009
{IMAGERIGHT:http://www.massdevice.com/sites/default/files/checkup/090915_index1.gif}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 shares outstanding for each company from its most recent quarterly report and each Friday’s closing share price.
The Massachusetts index for the week ended Sept. 11 closed at 5.2, up just less than 1 percent compared with the prior week. Since Jan. 1, when we began tracking these companies, the index has risen 17.6 percent.
Daktari Diagnostics wraps $2.8 million VC round
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Zimmer, Smith & Nephew settle bone screw patent case
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The MassDevice Weekly Checkup: Sept. 1, 2009
{IMAGERIGHT:http://www.massdevice.com/sites/default/files/checkup/090901_index1.gif}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 shares outstanding for each company from its most recent quarterly report and each Friday’s closing share price.
The Massachusetts index for the week ended August 28 closed at 5.1, up 4 percent compared with the prior week. Since Jan. 1, when we began tracking these companies, the index has risen 15.2 percent.
Urine LAM-ELISA Poor At Diagnosing TB
Urine LAM-ELISA does not appear to be useful as an independent diagnostic test for pulmonary tuberculosis (TB). A trial of the new diagnostic, described in the open access journal BMC Infectious Diseases found that it was only capable of identifying 50.7% of TB cases.
E-18 Corp. Completes International Patent Filing For Revolutionary “Self-Sheathing” Medical Syringes
E-18 Corp. (OTCBB:ETEN) announced that its wholly owned subsidiary SquareOne Medical, Inc., doing business as Protectus Medical Devices (“Protectus Medical Devices”), completed an international patent filing for its revolutionary self-sheathing medical safety syringe technology, opening substantial opportunities abroad.
Medtronic Defends Payments To Physicians
Medtronic, which has been the focus of recent reports detailing its payments to doctors, is defending that practice. The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports: “At the annual shareholder meeting of Medtronic Inc.
Marketing Application For Vernakalant Intravenous (IV) Filed In Europe For The Treatment Of Atrial Fibrillation
Merck & Co., Inc., Whitehouse Station, NJ, USA, which operates in many countries as Merck Sharp & Dohme Limited, announced today that the European Medicines Agency (EMEA) accepted for review the Company’s Marketing Authorisation Application (MAA) for regulatory approval of vernakalant intravenous (IV). The proposed indication for vernakalant IV is for the treatment of acute atrial fibrillation, which is the most common cardiac arrhythmia (abnormal heart rhythm).
Laser Breakthrough Opens Door To DNA Manipulation
Heralded as a breakthrough in laser technology that will benefit biomedicine by opening the door to DNA manipulation and other applications, scientists in the US have made the world’s smallest semiconductor laser that can focus light in a space smaller than a single protein molecule.