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The top 5 orthopedic device industry stories of 2020

December 21, 2020 By Chris Newmarker

The COVID-19 pandemic presented a host of challenges, but major mergers in the orthopedic device space still got done. A deadly coronavirus pandemic is certainly not a good environment for people to go in for knee and hip surgeries. But even amid a tough business climate, orthopedic device companies worked through big M&A deals, and […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, News Well, Orthopedics Tagged With: Johnson & Johnson, Smith+Nephew, Stryker, Zimmer Biomet

Exactech to distribute Bodycad’s Reflex Uni knee

November 24, 2020 By Chris Newmarker

Exactech announced today that it has signed an agreement to be the exclusive U.S. distributor of Bodycad‘s Reflex Uni knee. The Reflex Uni expands Exactech’s Truliant primary and revision knee system to include a personalized unicompartmental implant, designed to fit each person’s unique anatomy. Exactech is touting the Truliant Reflex Uni as the latest addition […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Featured, News Well, Orthopedics Tagged With: Bodycad, Exactech Inc.

GE Healthcare acquires Prismatic Sensors and its advanced photon-counting CT sensors

November 20, 2020 By Chris Newmarker

GE Healthcare  (NYSE:GE) said today that it has acquired Prismatic Sensors, a Swedish startup with deep silicon detector technology for photon-counting computed tomography (PCCT). The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. GE Healthcare expects to close the deal in January 2021; its held a minority position in the company since 2017. Photon-counting CT technology, […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Diagnostics, Featured, Mergers & Acquisitions, News Well Tagged With: CT scans, GE Healthcare, Prismatic Sensors

FDA clears Think Surgical’s second-gen robotic knee surgery system

November 20, 2020 By Chris Newmarker

Think Surgical announced today that FDA has granted 510(k) clearance for the second generation of its TSolution One total knee application. The TSolution One is an active robot for total knee replacement; it includes fully automated bone preparation and provides surgeons a choice of implant options. The newly-cleared version of the system features includes an […]

Filed Under: 510(k), Featured, Food & Drug Administration (FDA), News Well, Orthopedics, Regulatory/Compliance, Robotics, Surgical Tagged With: robot-assisted, Robotic Surgery, Think Surgical, thinksurgical

Diversity in medtech: Just 20% of executive roles held by women

October 13, 2020 By Danielle Kirsh

Diversity in executive roles in the medical device industry is trending more toward parity, with women holding 2% more C-suite roles in 2020 compared to last year. Just 20% of executives at the 100 largest medical device companies in the world are women, and those companies average 19% female composition in the C-suite, according to […]

Filed Under: News Well Tagged With: 3m, Abbott, Alcon, B. Braun, Baxter, becton dickinson, bostonscientific, Cardinal Health, danaher, EssilorLuxottica, Fresenius, GE Healthcare, Henry Schein Medical, johnsonandjohnson, Medtronic, owens&minor, royalphilips, Siemens Healthineers, Stryker, Women in Medtech, Zimmer Biomet

Rhaeos and its shunt monitor win MedTech Innovator’s 2020 global competition

October 6, 2020 By Chris Newmarker

MedTech Innovator announced today that wearable head shunt monitor startup Rhaeos has won its 2020 Global Competition. Rhaeos (Evanston, Ill.) won the competition and $350,000 grand prize in a virtual live audience vote at The Virtual MedTech Conference, powered by AdvaMed. The 2-year-old company’s wearable, noninvasive Flowsense device monitors ventricular shunt function for hydrocephalus patients […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Digital Health, Featured, Funding Roundup, Neurological, News Well Tagged With: AdvaMed, Cellvie, Circadia Health, Lief Therapeutics, Medtech Innovator, Moray Medical, Rhaeos

Kodak internal review finds problems but no lawbreaking over pharma loan deal

September 16, 2020 By Chris Newmarker

Shares of Eastman Kodak (NYSE: KODK) are up two-thirds so far this week after a special committee set up by the company’s board found no lawbreaking in controversial stock trades made by top management in the leadup to announcing a $765 million federal government loan to support a shift to pharmaceutical manufacturing. Get the full […]

Filed Under: Legal News, News Well, Pharmaceutical Tagged With: Kodak

Monteris Medical raises $9M

September 4, 2020 By Chris Newmarker

Monteris Medical (Plymouth, Minn.) has raised another $9 million, about four months after it crossed the 3,000 mark of people treated with its NeuroBlate robot-assisted brain surgery device. The money came from a single investor, according to the Form D that Monteris filed today with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The company has been […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Funding Roundup, Neurological, News Well, Robotics, Surgical Tagged With: Monteris Medical, robot-assisted, Robotic Surgery

Abbott wins EUA for COVID-19 test that runs off a card

August 27, 2020 By Chris Newmarker

FDA has announced an emergency use authorization for Abbott’s BinaxNow COVID-19 Ag Card — a speedy antigen test for the virus that can be directly read off the testing card. The agency in the announcement yesterday evening compared the test’s design to some pregnancy tests. A healthcare provider swabs the patient’s nose and twirls the […]

Filed Under: Diagnostics, Digital Health, Featured, Food & Drug Administration (FDA), News Well, Regulatory/Compliance Tagged With: Abbott, coronavirus, COVID-19, FDA

CMS proposes coverage updates that could increase access to VADs

August 12, 2020 By Chris Newmarker

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) today proposed coverage policy updates meant to increase access to VADs and artificial hearts. The policy updates, if approved, could be good news for major VAD makers Abbott (NYSE:ABT)  and Medtronic (NYSE:MDT) — as well as people with heart failure who are waiting for a heart transplant or don’t […]

Filed Under: Cardiac Implants, Cardiovascular, Featured, News Well, Regulatory/Compliance, Structural Heart Tagged With: Abbott, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), LVAD, Medtronic, VADs

Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes’ trial to start in March

August 12, 2020 By Chris Newmarker

Ex-Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes’ federal fraud trial will now start in March 2021 amid delays related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Judge Edward Davila decided yesterday that jury selection will start on March 9, with opening arguments taking place around March 16 in U.S. District Court in San Jose, Calif. It is possible that some or […]

Filed Under: Featured, Legal News, News Well Tagged With: Elizabeth Holmes, Theranos

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