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50 of 2020’s best-selling pharmaceuticals

May 17, 2021 By Brian Buntz

Drug sales in 2020 proved more resilient than many experts anticipated in the early days of the pandemic. Still, the impact on many injectable drugs was tangible in the first half of the year as hospitals initially dissuaded patients from seeking in-person treatment. But sales were generally strong for the full year. AbbVie’s injectable biologic […]

Filed Under: Featured, Pharmaceutical Tagged With: AbbVie, adalimumab, aflibercept, apixaban, Bayer, Biktarvy, Bristol-Myers Squibb, dupilumab, Dupixent, Eliquis, Eylea, Humira, ibrutinib, Imbruvica, Keytruda, lenalidomide, Merck, pembrolizumab, Pfizer, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Revlimid, rivaroxaban, Stelara, ustekinumab, Xarelto

How did medtech companies score on environmental stewardship list?

December 8, 2020 By Nancy Crotti

Medical Design & Outsourcing recently rated the world’s largest medical device companies — the Big 100 — for their sales numbers and R&D spend. Now we can share how some of them scored on an environmental nonprofit’s annual list of companies ranked for their actions on climate change. Not-for-profit organization CDP (Stockholm, Sweden) runs a global disclosure system for […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Featured Tagged With: 3m, Abbott, Abiomed, Align Technology, Baxter, Bayer, becton dickinson, Boston Scientific, Canon, Cardinal Health, Carl Zeiss Meditec, CDP, danaher, Edwards Lifesciences, elkemsilicones, emerson, Fujifilm, Henry Schein Medical, Hologic, Intuitive Surgical, Johnson & Johnson, Kyocera, Medtronic, Olympus, PerkinElmer Inc., Qualcomm, ResMed, Robert Bosch North America, royalphilips, stericycle, Steris Corp., Stryker, TE Connectivity, Terumo, Tessy Plastics, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Toray Industries, Varian Medical Systems, Zimmer Biomet

MedTech 100 roundup: Stocks were practically unchanged last week

August 24, 2020 By Sean Whooley

Despite plenty of ups and downs coming in the stock market for the medtech industry, there was hardly any movement from week to week. MassDevice’s MedTech 100 Index — which includes stocks of the world’s largest medical device companies — sat at 89.6 points at the end of last week (Aug. 21). Overall, medtech stocks saw […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Featured, Funding Roundup, Initial Public Offering (IPO), Mergers & Acquisitions, Research & Development, Wall Street Beat Tagged With: Bayer, Cala Health, cochlear, conformis, CureVac, Fractyl Laboratories, Johnson and Johnson, momentapharmaceuticals, Principia Biopharma, S&P, Sanofi, Stryker, Teva Pharmaceuticals

DTW Podcast: Can Fractyl Labs and Cala Health go where only drugs have gone before?

August 21, 2020 By Tom Salemi

In this week’s DeviceTalks Weekly podcast, co-costs Tom Salemi and Chris Newmarker walk through this week’s “Newmarker’s Newsmakers,” the Top Five #medtech stories of the week with news coming from CureVac, Avail Medsystems, ClearMask, Thermo Fisher and Bayer. We also hear from CEO Harith Rajagopalan, MD and CFO Lisa Davidson of Fractyl Laboratories, which is […]

Filed Under: Bioelectronic Medicine, Biotech, Device Talks Podcasts, Diabetes, Featured, Initial Public Offering (IPO) Tagged With: Avail Medsystems, Bayer, Cala Health, ClearMask, CureVac, Fractyl Laboratories, Thermo Fisher Scientific

The top 5 MassDevice stories of the week — August 21, 2020

August 21, 2020 By Chris Newmarker

COVID-19 continues to dominate medical device industry news on MassDevice. The pandemic is causing more major lawsuit settling — as well as efforts to offer more medtech to enable better management of the coronavirus. Want to hear more about the week’s top news? Executive editor Chris Newmarker and Tom Salemi will discuss during our DeviceTalks Weekly […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Featured Tagged With: Avail Medsystems, Bayer, ClearMask, CureVac, Essure, Thermo Fisher Scientific

BREAKING: Bayer settles 90% of Essure claims for $1.6B

August 20, 2020 By Sean Whooley

Bayer (ETR:BAYN) announced today that settled approximately 90% of U.S. claims involving women alleging injuries related to its Essure device. Leverkusen, Germany-based Bayer reached agreements with plaintiff law firms on about 90% of the nearly 39,000 filed and unfiled U.S. Essure claims from women who allege device-related injuries, according to a news release. Settlements include all […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Featured, Gynecological, Legal News, Women's Health Tagged With: Bayer, Essure

Bayer sets aside nearly $1.4B for potential Essure settlements

August 4, 2020 By Chris Newmarker

Bayer (ETR:BAYN) during its second quarter ended June 30 set aside €1.245 billion ($1.39 billion), mainly to provide for potential lawsuit settlements related to its Essure permanent birth control device. Some of the provision was also for litigation defense costs and other pharmaceutical matters. As of July 24, Bayer faced U.S. lawsuits from roughly 32,000 Essure […]

Filed Under: Featured, Gynecological, Legal News, Product Liability, Regulatory/Compliance, Women's Health Tagged With: Bayer, Essure

The most innovative pharmaceutical agents of 2020

August 3, 2020 By Danielle Kirsh

The Galien Foundation recently announced nominees for most innovative pharmaceutical agents for its 14th Annual Prix Galien USA Awards. The foundation bestows the Prix Galien Award annually to examples of outstanding biomedical, pharmaceutical drugs and medical technology products that are designed to improve the human condition. “As we celebrate 50 years of the Prix Galien process, […]

Filed Under: Cardiovascular, Featured, Neurological, Oncology, Pharmaceutical Tagged With: AbbVie, Adlon Therapeutics, Advanced Accelerator Applications, Astellas Pharma, Bayer, Eli Lilly & Co., Galien Foundation, Genentech, Greenwich Biosciences, GW Pharmaceuticals, Janssen Biotech, Johnson & Johnson, Karyopharm Therapeutics, Medicines Development for Global Health, Merck, Novartis, Pfizer, Population Council, Purdue Pharma, Roche Group, Servier Pharmaceuticals, SIGA Technologies, Sobi, TB Alliance, Theravance Biopharma

Bayer failed to report Essure problems, lawsuit claims

July 13, 2020 By Chris Newmarker

Bayer (ETR:BAYN) failed to tell FDA about thousands of injury complaints related to its Essure contraceptive device, according to newly unsealed lawsuit documents reported by Bloomberg. The lawsuit documents out of California claim that the underreporting went back before Bayer acquired Essure maker Conceptus for $1.1 billion in 2013. Bayer responded to Bloomberg last week that […]

Filed Under: Featured, Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Gynecological, Legal News, Product Liability, Regulatory/Compliance, Women's Health Tagged With: Bayer, Essure

Essure study shows more pain, bleeding in women with implant

July 8, 2020 By Sean Whooley

Interim results from a postmarket study of the Bayer (ETR:BAYN) Essure permanent birth control device revealed higher rates of chronic lower abdominal and/or pelvic pain and abnormal uterine bleeding compared with laparoscopic tubal ligation as permanent birth control. The FDA posted the results as part of a long-term safety evaluation of the device, which has […]

Filed Under: Featured, Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Gynecological, Recalls, Regulatory/Compliance, Women's Health Tagged With: Bayer, Essure, FDA

7 ways the coronavirus is affecting medtech

March 20, 2020 By Chris Newmarker

Medtech companies face some tough times as the deadly coronavirus pandemic gains steam. But could this be the medical device industry’s Dunkirk, too? Just days ago, MassMEDIC president Brian Johnson made a call-out on LinkedIn for people to send ideas about how Massachusetts medical device companies could help fight COVID-19. He drew an analogy to […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Featured, Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Regulatory/Compliance, Respiratory Tagged With: 3m, Abbott, Bayer, Becton Dickonson, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), coronavirus, Donald Trump, FDA, Johnson & Johnson, MassMEDIC, Medtronic, Philips, ResMed Inc., Thermo Fisher Scientific

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