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Johnson & Johnson to spin off consumer segment

November 12, 2021 By Brian Buntz

Recently, General Electric (NYSE:GE), Zimmer Biomet (NYSE: ZBH) and Toshiba (TYO:6502) announced their plans to slim down by spinning out core businesses. Now, Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) is following a similar approach by making its consumer health business a standalone company. J&J will retain its pharmaceutical and medical device segments. The company said in an […]

Filed Under: Blog, Business/Financial News, Featured, Pharmaceutical Tagged With: Alex Gorsky, General Electric, Johnson and Johnson, Toshiba

7 companies using robot-assisted surgery to transform orthopedics

June 28, 2021 By Chris Newmarker

It seems as if every orthopedic device company is getting involved in robot-assisted surgery — rolling out robots to assist surgeons operating on the knee, hip, shoulder or spine. Two events in recent years especially signaled that robots were coming into their own in the space: Stryker spent $1.7 billion for Mako Surgical in order […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Featured, Orthopedics, Robotics, Surgical Tagged With: DePuy Synthes, Globus Medical, Johnson and Johnson, Medtronic, Nuvasive, Smith & Nephew, Smith+Nephew, Stryker, surgical robotics, Zimmer Biomet

The 10 largest orthopedic device companies in the world

April 27, 2021 By Chris Newmarker

Pent-up demand could make orthopedic devices a hot space in 2021. The COVID-19 pandemic was especially brutal for the orthopedic device industry. Many of the largest companies in the space saw double-digit percentage declines in revenue in 2020. Health providers delayed or canceled elective procedures to focus on the pandemic, and patients stayed away in […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Featured, Orthopedics, Spine Tagged With: Colfax Corp., DePuy Synthes, DJO Global, Johnson & Johnson, Johnson and Johnson, Medtronic, Nuvasive, Orthofix, SeaSpine, Smith+Nephew, Stryker, Zimmer Biomet

FDA releases scathing inspection report regarding Emergent BioSolutions plant

April 21, 2021 By Brian Buntz

An FDA report cites multiple failures in an Emergent BioSolutions plant tapped to produce vaccines for Johnson & Johnson and AstraZeneca. The vaccine plant had been forced to discard up to 15 million doses of Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine in a single manufacturing batch. Emergent Biosolutions recently paused production of the vaccine during the FDA inspection and […]

Filed Under: Featured, Pharmaceutical Tagged With: AstraZeneca, AstraZeneca plc, coronavirus, COVID-19 vaccine, COVID-19 vaccines, Emergent BioSolutions, FDA, Johnson and Johnson

9 things to know as AstraZeneca and J&J COVID-19 vaccines face safety scrutiny

April 14, 2021 By Brian Buntz

With COVID-19 cases surging in many parts of the world, the need is high for multiple vaccines to slow the virus. But the fate of adenovirus-vectored vaccines from AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson has become murky after a limited number of people receiving those vaccines have developed severe blood clot disorders. Officials in both the […]

Filed Under: Blog, Featured, Pharmaceutical Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19, Johnson and Johnson

EMA begins investigation of J&J COVID-19 vaccine’s blood clotting potential

April 9, 2021 By Brian Buntz

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) announced that it is beginning a review of blood clots appearing in a handful of recipients of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine.  EMA recently concluded that blood clots associated with low blood platelet levels were a “very rare” side effect of Vaxzevria, the vaccine from AstraZeneca.  Four recipients of […]

Filed Under: Featured, Pharmaceutical Tagged With: AstraZeneca, Clinical Trials, coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccines, Johnson and Johnson

Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine shipments plunge

April 9, 2021 By Brian Buntz

Johnson & Johnson will cut COVID-19 vaccine shipments by 86% in the coming week, according to CDC projections. The week of April 5, the company shipped nearly 5 million doses. Next week, that figure could fall to approximately 700,000.  The company anticipates that it can eventually deliver up to 8 million doses weekly, assuming FDA authorizes […]

Filed Under: Pharmaceutical Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccines, Johnson and Johnson

Factory error ruins 15M J&J COVID-19 vaccine doses

March 31, 2021 By Brian Buntz

Employees at an Emergent BioSolutions facility in Baltimore made a mistake several weeks ago when formulating the ingredients for Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine, requiring 15 million doses of it to be discarded. A quality control process revealed that one batch of a drug substance for the J&J COVID-19 vaccine “did not meet quality standards,” […]

Filed Under: Featured, Pharmaceutical Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccine, Johnson and Johnson

J&J leader McEvoy lays out future for medtech giant; Stryker’s Murray talks 3Dprinting

March 19, 2021 By Tom Salemi

In this week’s DeviceTalks Weekly podcast — the 50th of the series— J&J’s medical device chief Ashley McEvoy makes her debut. McEvoy, EVP and chair of Medical Devices at Johnson & Johnson, delivered insights on several areas of interest including: COVID-19’s impact on J&J in the past, and what changes may remain in the future; […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Device Talks Podcasts, Featured, Special Content Tagged With: DeviceTalks Weekly, DJO Global, Frequency Therapeutics, GE Healthcare, Johnson and Johnson, Medtronic, Stryker, Theranos

DTW Podcast: Can AI, advanced imaging and robotics ‘democratize’ surgery?

March 7, 2021 By Tom Salemi

A new generation of digital surgery systems will level surgeons’ playing field — giving them artificial intelligence, robotic tools, and other assistive technologies. In three interviews in this week’s DeviceTalks Weekly Podcast, leaders from Asensus, ActivSurgical and Memic explain how their systems will improve surgeon performance, reduce errors, and deliver the “democratization” of surgical robotics. […]

Filed Under: Device Talks Podcasts, Digital Health, Featured, Imaging, Robotics, Surgical Tagged With: Activ Surgical, Asensus Surgical, Bardy Diagnostics, Boston Scientific, DeviceTalks Weekly, Finnegan, Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner, Hillrom, Johnson and Johnson, Lumenis Ltd., MAKO Surgical Corp., Medtronic, Memic Innovative Surgery, PackworldUSA, PSN Labs, Stryker

Is there a link between Bell’s palsy and COVID-19 vaccines?

March 1, 2021 By Brian Buntz

One adverse event common to clinical trials for currently authorized COVID-19 vaccines is Bell’s palsy, an asymmetrical weakness or paralysis of the face that is often temporary. Two vaccine recipients in the Johnson & Johnson Phase 3 clinical trial developed Bell’s palsy, as did two people in the placebo group. Another patient developed facial swelling […]

Filed Under: Pharmaceutical Tagged With: Clinical Trials, coronavirus, COVID-19, Johnson and Johnson, Moderna, Pfizer

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