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A rating agency specializing in evaluating risky investments added Boston Scientific (NYSE:BSX) to its "Risk List," citing the ongoing fallout from its ill-starred Guidant buyout, its accounting and governance practices and how it pays its executives.
St. Jude Medical (NYSE:STJ) announced regulatory approval from the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare for its Fortify implantable cardioverter defibrillator and Unify cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillator, and the company launched the products in the Japanese market.
A ICD is an device that treats abnormally fast heart rhythms, and a CRT-D resynchronizes beating in the heart’s lower chambers, which often beat out of sync in heart failure patients.
