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Covidien (NYSE:COV) beat Wall Street’s earnings expectations for both its fourth quarter and 2011 fiscal year, sending shares up 1.8 percent today.
The Mansfield, Mass.-based health care giant’s medical device segment once again led the charge, posting an 18 percent sales increase for Q4 and 17 percent for the full year.
Medtronic Inc.’s (NYSE:MDT) chief regulatory affairs officer Susan Alpert will join her boss, William Hawkins, on Retirement Row this year, according to company officials.
Alpert, who has held the senior vice president and chief regulatory officer positions at Medtronic since 2005, had a similar role at C.R. Bard (NYSE:BCR) before joining MDT and is also a former director of the FDA’s Office of Device Evaluation .
MassDevice keeps a close eye on public medical device companies, tracking their quarterly sales and earnings reports. For the most recent filings, check out our Earnings Roundup, where we collect each quarter’s reports.
Here’s a quick rundown of a few releases over the past couple days:
Pressure BioSciences boosts Q3 sales, cuts losses
Pressure BioSciences Inc. (NSDQ:PBIO) reported a loss of $693,000, or 26 cents per share, on revenue of $372,000 during the three months ended Sept. 30. That compares with losses of about $776,000, or 35 cents per share, on revenue of $317,427 during the same period last year.
