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3. SEC closed probe of Zoll’s Middle East sales just ahead of $2.3B Asahi merger
Just weeks before a $2.3 billion acquisition by Asahi Kasei closed, the Securities & Exchange Commission shut the books on a review of Zoll Medical’s sales to Iran, Syria and other countries the U.S. deems “state sponsors of terrorism.”
2. St. Jude Medical gains on Goldman upgrade
St. Jude Medical shares gains 2.1% after Goldman Sachs analyst David Roman upgrades his rating on STJ stock and raises his price target by more than 11%.
1. Boston Scientific’s Lotus TAVI system minimizes leakage in early trial
Boston Scientific’s Lotus transcatheter aortic valve implantation system proves to minimize paravalvular leakage after successful implantation in patients with severe symptomatic aortic stenosis who are too sick to undergo open-heart surgery.