Becton Dickinson (NYSE:BDX) failed to disclose to Georgia environmental officials a warehouse that it has leased since May to store medical devices sterilized with ethylene oxide (EtO), the company said on Friday. BD notified the Georgia Environmental Protection Division (EPD) of its use of the 40,000-square-foot warehouse in Covington, Ga., on Friday after the agency cited […]
Georgia cites BD for warehouse ethylene oxide emissions
Georgia state officials claim that Becton Dickinson (NYSE:BDX) has been operating a medical device warehouse without an air quality permit. The Covington, Ga. warehouse stores devices that have been sterilized using ethylene oxide (EtO), a carcinogenic gas. BD signed a consent order with the Georgia Environmental Protection Divisoin (EPD) in October, agreeing to aerate EtO-sterilized devices for 24 hours […]
How much do the world’s biggest medtech companies pay physicians?
The top 50 medical device companies in the world paid physicians and teaching hospitals $690.3 million last year in general payments, according to an analysis of Medical Design and Outsourcing‘s Big 100 and CMS Open Payments data. Medtech companies averaged $17.3 million in general payments to doctors last year, spending an average of 0.2% of […]
These medical device companies pay doctors the most money
The top medical device companies in the world made more than $542.6 million in general payments to physicians and hospitals in 2018, according to an analysis of Medical Design & Outsourcing‘s Big 100 and CMS Open Payments data. Zimmer Biomet topped the list with $109.4 million in general payments* to physicians and teaching hospitals in […]
Study: Stents no better than drugs for stable heart disease
This article has been updated with stock market results and comments from Medtronic. A major new study has concluded that the use of stents in stable heart disease patients is no better than drugs to treat clogged arteries. Results of the Ischemia study were released at the American Heart Association annual meeting in Philadelphia on Saturday. The […]
BD inks deal to keep Georgia sterilization plant open
Becton Dickinson (NYSE:BDX) said today that it inked a deal with the state of Georgia to keep open a medical device sterilization plant there. Georgia is seeking a temporary restraining order to close the plant in Covington, Ga., where a leak of 54.5 lbs. of ethylene oxide gas went undetected for eight days last month. BD pledged in […]
Battles over sterilization plants intensify as industry warnings about shortages grow
The fight over plants that use ethylene oxide (EO) to sterilize medical devices is escalating across the country. New proposed legislation in Illinois would ban the use of the carcinogenic gas by sterilizers by 2021 and by hospitals by 2022, according to reports by the Chicago Tribune. A legislative hearing on the bill is scheduled for […]
BD warns of international device shortages in EO plant legal filing
The Georgia environmental chief’s effort to shut down a Becton Dickinson (NYSE:BDX) medtech sterilization plant could cause widespread shortages of commonly used devices for which BD has a large market share, the company said today in a court filing. On Tuesday, Georgia state Environmental Protection Division director Richard Dunn filed a motion with Newton County Superior Court […]
FDA warns of device shortages again due to sterilization plant closures
The FDA today warned of “years of spot or nationwide shortages” of a number of surgical kits and implantable medical devices due to the closure of two medtech sterilization plants that use ethylene oxide (EO) and efforts in Georgia to close a third. Potentially affected surgical kits include those used in emergency Caesarean sections and […]
BD launches syringe-autoinjector combo
Becton Dickinson (NYSE:BDX) today announced the launch of the BD Intevia 1mL two-step disposable autoinjector, which combines an autoinjector and pre-fillable syringe in one integrated system. BD Intevia disposable autoinjector is a 2-step push-on-skin device that is designed to effectively and safely inject a variety of drugs of different viscosities up to 35cP and different fill […]
BD to shutter Minnesota Lutonix plant, layoffs ahead for 53
Becton Dickinson (NYSE:BDX) is planning to close a Minnesota plant that makes its Lutonix drug-coated balloon next year, as the company looks to consolidate its peripheral intervention business. The decision means layoffs for 53 of the New Hope, Minn., site’s 85 workers; the remaining 32 employees will either move to roles at BD’s Tempe, Ariz., location […]
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