The Massachusetts Life Sciences Center is launching a new kind of grant initiative for early-stage life science companies in the state — not for funding R&D, but instead for measures to reduce commercial risk, including developing go-to-market strategies, planning for regulatory submissions and attracting investment. The Access and Accelerate program will award grants up to […]
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The 10 largest medical device companies
Medtronic (NYSE: MDT) remains at the top of the list, but a focus on innovation is enabling companies such as Abbott (NYSE ABT) and Intuitive (Nasdaq: ISRG) to move up our list of largest medical device companies. That’s but one of the insights we’ve gleaned from Medical Design & Outsourcing and MassDevice’s Medtech Big 100 […]
Leading medical device experts and MDO launch Medtech Innovation Board
We’re starting something special to supercharge medical device industry collaboration and innovation. Medical Design & Outsourcing has pulled together innovators and leaders with experience at major medtech developers such as Medtronic, Boston Scientific, Abbott and Edwards Lifesciences, plus groundbreaking startups and outsourcing partners for candid conversations about innovation challenges and opportunities to help our industry […]
Former Teleflex CEO to lead Inspire competitor Nyxoah
The sleep apnea neuromodulation developer Nyxoah says former Teleflex CEO Liam Kelly will take over its corner office, effective Oct. 1. Mont-Saint-Guibert, Belgium-based Nyxoah announced in June that it was searching for a new U.S.-based CEO after Olivier Taelman, its leader for the past seven years, agreed with the board to hand over the reins for […]
Retired Stryker leader Tim Scannell dies at 62
Tim Scannell, who catalyzed Stryker’s growth through sales and marketing development and led the company’s expansion as COO, died on Sept. 26, 2026. He died after a 10-month battle with glioblastoma, his family said. He was 62. “He was surrounded by his family and fittingly, he passed away shortly after a Notre Dame victory while […]
UltraSight raises $24M in Series B2 to scale AI-guided cardiac ultrasound technology
AI-guided cardiac technology developer UltraSight has raised $24 million in Series B2 financing, the company announced. The financing will support the company’s commercial expansion in the United States and the development of new software systems for intensive care and circulatory support settings, UltraSight said. Alive HealthTech Grow Fund led the round with an undisclosed investment. […]
DePuy Synthes launches next-generation automated fracture fixation system
Johnson & Johnson MedTech’s DePuy Synthes Orthopaedics business launched its next-generation Maxframe Autostrut with Bluetooth Multi-Axial Correction System, the company announced today. The new hexapod ring-fixation system automates the strut adjustment process during treatment for limb deformity correction, limb lengthening, complex fractures and post-traumatic complications. Traditionally, hexapod ring fixators (HRF) require manual strut […]
Cordis earns FDA nod for Selution SLR drug-eluting balloon
Cordis earned FDA approval for its Selution SLR (sustained limus release) drug-eluting balloon (DEB) to treat coronary in-stent restenosis, the device developer announced today. “As the first and only sirolimus drug-eluting balloon approved in the United States, Selution SLR DEB introduces a groundbreaking therapy for the treatment of coronary in-stent restenosis.” Cordis President of Americas […]
Wandercraft’s self-balancing Eve exoskeleton begins US launch
After securing an FDA clearance last month, Wandercraft is taking its personalized exoskeleton for a walk with its commercial debut. The self-balancing Eve system can help wheelchair users with spinal cord injuries walk upright via its hand controls, and can then stay standing hands-free without crutches or a walker to allow the wearer to carry […]
Medtronic hires former Recor CEO to run interventional cardiology group
Medtronic (NYSE:MDT) has hired former Recor Medical President and CEO Lara Barghout as president of the Interventional Cardiology Therapies (ICT) operating unit. The ICT business covers minimally invasive therapies in structural heart, coronary, and hypertension management, the last of which includes renal denervation (RDN). Watch on-demand: The 2026 MDO Min-Vasive Medtech webinar series Recor Medical won […]
Powerful Medical announces FDA De Novo nod for AI ECG and other extra medtech news
Powerful Medical today announced FDA De Novo authorization for its Queen of Hearts AI ECG model. According to New York–based Powerful Medical, the AI-powered model is meant to identify ECG findings suggestive of urgent acute coronary syndrome (ACS). The goal is to get urgent notifications to clinicians of suspected cases. According to Powerful Medical, the […]
